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Fish Room Plus
09-27-2005, 1:01 PM
4"...$65
Fish Room Plus
09-27-2005, 4:26 PM
feeding well on blood worms & ghost shrimp
Gr8KarmaSF
09-27-2005, 8:17 PM
its a freshwater puffer right???
whats the min. tank size for this guy???
Fish Room Plus
09-27-2005, 9:08 PM
thats a good question
55 gallon this year
75 gal next year
125 year after that
150 4th year
then 220 for life
:thumbsup:
Fish Room Plus
09-27-2005, 9:08 PM
Oh, fresh water ;)
thats a good question
55 gallon this year
75 gal next year
125 year after that
150 4th year
then 220 for life
:thumbsup:
lol A wonderful fish though. I Love these guy's they have such wonderful personalities. whatching both Piranhas and puffers eat you get board with P's but with Puffers the entertainment is endless!
jabestin
10-25-2005, 11:18 PM
i just need 5 posts. lol.
jabestin
10-25-2005, 11:20 PM
oh yea. also. im a new guy in this thing. i just started working at petland a few weeks ago and have developed an interest in starting an aquarium. my manager is really smart with this stuff too since the store i work in pretty much specializes in fish. but yea. its fun...
pufferfish123
11-15-2005, 7:32 PM
Mbu Puffers rock. We had one at our shop in Berkeley. It was just over two ft. We sold him though. Too bad, it was fun watching him eat crayfish.
snargalsius
11-16-2005, 10:44 PM
I have one of these little fellows(I named him seymore), it's about 4 inches long. This one is lazier than any of the puffers I have had before, he just kind of lays around until I feed him. He likes krill and pieces of shrimp. When I first got him he was very shy and I had difficulty getting him to eat anything. I started him on clams and muscles. After about a month he finally started to eat other things. This reluctance to feed is contrary to most other puffers I have kept. they are all greedy messy eaters. In addition to the mbu I also have a 7" guinea fowl puffer that is like a dog following me around trying to get me to feed it and I have a porcupine puffer about 6" named bumble.
selki
08-25-2008, 10:33 PM
u cant mix mbu puffer with fly river and silver aro can u?
PLURMaster
08-26-2008, 1:19 AM
4 inch for $65 is a damm good price for MBU's. The are hard to find puffers in the hobby because they grow too large for LFS to keep one around especially aggressive behavior. If i have a 100 gal tank i would buy it but i already have one too many tanks in the house the lady wouldnt appreciate too much..heh.
Hope you guys will get the Irrubesco soon..i will definately buy a few. Especially juveniles!!! Please keep me posted on your PUffer stock!!!
benzjamin13
08-26-2008, 1:22 AM
That's a great price! I've always seen them for $100 at 5" I also hear that they have the best personality of all the Puffers.
PLURMaster
08-26-2008, 1:26 AM
I dont know if MBU have the best personality never have I own one but in general all puffers have a very intersting personality. Believe me i have kept 5 different types of puffer before and counting
raleigh19
08-26-2008, 1:30 AM
This thread is 3 years old.
PLURMaster
08-26-2008, 2:15 AM
hahaha you're right..didnt even notice that.
groovitudedude
08-26-2008, 2:33 AM
u cant mix mbu puffer with fly river and silver aro can u?
If you're not lucky, then you have a couple hundred dollars worth of puffer snacks.
I don't know why a 220 would be suitable, this fish gets over 2 Feet long.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Freshwater/T_Mbu/