The Puffer Forum

Well...ive been threatening to get some more Puffers, and well i did

i have a pair of Tetraodon Biocellatus they are about 2cm in length including their tails lol

http://www.darkentity.myby.co.uk/tank/T ... latus1.jpg

http://www.darkentity.myby.co.uk/tank/T ... latus2.jpg

http://www.darkentity.myby.co.uk/tank/T ... latus3.jpg

They were a tad hungry so got a little too much to eat last night, but was nice to see a really healthy appetite

Great pics....thanks for sharing them!!!

OOh look at those fat little puff pics great new additions, I shall look forward to some more pics soon

I had heard these guys are interactive, but nothing can prepare you to exacly how interactive they are. Monday night got home from work and the 2 little fellas (Mulder & Scully possible names) cmae flying to the front of the tank (one of which smaked its head on the glass in excitement) they then proceded to follow my tie as i moved, then my finger as i pointed at the glass

Tonight was the same, i swear i could see the utter excitement of my arrival home

Nice pickup DE

Good to hear that they get excited when you walk in the room. They are thinking "ooh FOOD FOOOOOOD!!!!" Clooney also does this but I reckon his tail does a bit more than those little guys. I swear the other fish dive for cover when he sees his food pot

manutius wrote:Good to hear that they get excited when you walk in the room. They are thinking "ooh FOOD FOOOOOOD!!!!" Clooney also does this but I reckon his tail does a bit more than those little guys. I swear the other fish dive for cover when he sees his food pot

Food Pot?!?!

I was thinking food bucket or food trough

Litle and often for Clooney, but I'm sure if I put more in he would keep taking it

I just love your Clooney! But I guess you have discovered that by now.

Those are very nice F8s! But your little guy has quite a belly on the last pic

I've bought some F8s as well today. I stopped by at the shop where they are keeping the puffers I want to buy, to tell them that there will be one more day before I come to get them. At the same time, I payed for them, just to be very certain that they don't sell them to anybody else! To my big surprise it turned out that there were two large abeis (if that's what it is - it's just my guess) there, not one. I had only seen the one abei when I was there last week. It's amazing to see how such big fishes can hide, even in a small tank. If they had not shown me the one fish last week, I wouldn't have seen any of them! But back to the F8s. Today they also had more than one F8. As I want two of them, I payed for one more. The two new ones wasn't quite healty, though. So I am worried about how they will cope with the long transport back home. It looks like they were both a little injured on their backs. I will get my money back if I get trouble with them, so that's at least good to know. I can't help trying to get them well either Actually I will only buy one of the injured ones, and the other F8 I will bring home was the one I saw last week. But there was one more problem: they also had some very nice and healty DPs. I bought 3 earlier, and all three turned out to be pretty ill. None of them survived more than 2 weeks. But those tiny fishes I saw today, they were nice and healty, and very happy to have some (not so nice anymore) long killi tails to eat bits off. The killis were nice too, at least what was left of them. I really don't know what to do, as I want them all. I just don't have room for them. I will have to think very hard the rest of today, to see if I can squeeze them in somewere.