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Hey!
I am a newbie to this forum, but I was hoping for some help identifying this new puffer I purchased. I was told it was a brackish water puffer, but I am not sure what type.:confused:
I would really appreciate the help
Pufferpunk
09-10-2007, 11:33 PM
Could you get a better side shot? Or look it up here:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/
Start with the FW puffer section.
Miles
09-16-2007, 10:58 PM
FW or Salt?
T. Turgidus or T. Cochinchinensis?
Pufferpunk
09-16-2007, 11:40 PM
Both totally FW. I have no doubt this is a FW pufffer.
Twitterbait
09-18-2007, 5:03 PM
looks like a very dark figure 8
Sunrider
10-22-2007, 5:07 PM
Don't laugh 2 hard i'm a newb!!! went out snorkeling yesterday and caught a spotted boxfish, puffer, came home and identified it. It scarred me to much to keep it so I took it back to the beach and let it go. will try another time maybe will get something not so pioson ness next time
fugupuff
10-27-2007, 9:23 AM
tetradon cutcutia headshape, but body spotting more like a leiurus group
Pufferpunk
10-28-2007, 4:31 PM
T cutcutia is in the Target (leiurus) group.
Don't laugh 2 hard i'm a newb!!! went out snorkeling yesterday and caught a spotted boxfish, puffer, came home and identified it. It scarred me to much to keep it so I took it back to the beach and let it go. will try another time maybe will get something not so pioson ness next time
I'm not laughing, but I'd not remove anything from the ocean that you couldn't identify. I know it is legal in some areas of Hawaii but nothing I'd risk my health or the health of what I was collecting over.
Twitterbait
10-29-2007, 7:28 PM
besides getting stuck with a fish you may not want you may grab something that is highly endangered and land yourself in jail. grab a spotted handfish in AU and your looking at 5-10 years... food for thought.
aggressor09
11-01-2007, 6:17 PM
thats a south american puffer. no brackish needed.
Fish Room Plus
11-01-2007, 6:24 PM
thats a south american puffer. no brackish needed.
NOT EVEN CLOSE:shakehead
TheJEWEL
11-07-2007, 1:49 PM
Looks like a very unhappy figure of 8. can tolerate freshwater when young or for short periods of time, however should idealy be kept in mildly brackish water with a specific gravity of 1.005.
55 gallon: 4 X mono sebae, 1 X common spotted puffer (red eyes), 3 X jewel cichlids, 1 X Knight goby, 1 X spotted scat, 7 X bumble bee gobies (all juvenile all in mildly brackish water specific gravity 1.005)
TheJEWEL
11-07-2007, 1:50 PM
Or an unhappy south american puffer-- purely freshwater
Twitterbait
11-07-2007, 5:17 PM
in other words... nobody knows. add some salt slowly and see if he perks up :D
Pufferpunk
11-08-2007, 2:20 AM
Like I said before, it is a FW puffer from the target group of puffers, which all look very similar.
fugupuff
11-08-2007, 2:25 AM
Like I said before, it is a FW puffer from the target group of puffers, which all look very similar.
trust pufferpunk, and fugupuff, we're puffer people, its a puffer from the south east asia, i'm 100% positive, and its pure freshwater, may even do better in softer water and lower ph. its either cutcutia, or young leiurus brevirostris.
Pufferpunk
11-08-2007, 3:10 AM
I wouldn't worry much about the pH though. Clean, freah water is what's important.
pufferfreak
02-02-2008, 1:04 AM
Defenitly a a FW water puffer, and yes heed to pufferpunks council( lol i had to say that in a funny way)
Pufferpunk
02-02-2008, 1:46 AM
young leiurus brevirostris
I've never heard them called that. Where'd you get that?