The Puffer Forum

Hi! It's labelled as China Puffer Fish at my Lfs.. And here, we are notorious for wrongly labelled puffer. Looks like a fugu to me. The 1st pic is lifted of a website where they raise puffer for consumption.. "idiots"..... They are raised in a FW environment. Is it truly FW?

Takifugu niphobles.

So it's a SW... Having a hard time looking for something to take birdy's place...

They're a pretty cool species to keep.

Hey scpion, why don't you go sw and get a porcupine or a dogface? The tank you have would be big enough wouldn't it?

Going SW will be took much work for me... Ha... At least not at the moment..

That's not T. niphobles, it's T. obscurus, the quite big relative of T. ocellatus. Up to 40 cm (16 inches) without tail. Can be kept the same way. Is euryhaline (occurs in fresh-brackish and marine water), bit for long term success I'd recommend marine. They are bred (with the help of hormones) in China as expensive food.

Damn, Corvus got me again!

*points and laughs at pp* =P

Thanks Corvus. I can never understand why in the world would they want to eat them.. I mean there are so many things out there that are tasty but those people choose to get kicks out from them. I saw culinary show and they cost upwards of $1k for a fish..

Why do I even bother to try & ID things???

I think you are doing very wll most of the time.

Awww... thanks!