Best Friends

[Thekid]

Our best lfs is closing so I paid a visit and got a bunch of stuff I don't need but I did stumble across a porcupine puffer that was 5" or so. As I was watching him eat halved clams I noticed him sharing the one he was eating with a harliquin tusk that was 7" or so. I wanted just the puffer but the owner said if I took the puffer for $40 I could have the tusk for $80 and I said deal. So here they are-

 

[krichardson]

Nice.I have had both of those fish back in my salt days.I love the blue teeth of the tusk.

 

[Thekid]

Nice.I have had both of those fish back in my salt days.I love the blue teeth of the tusk.

I'm not going to lie it scared the crap out of me when I pulled the tusk out and it made an audible snap and the put a hole in the net I was using.

 

[krichardson]

Lol,it is my favorite of all of the wrasses.

 

[Thekid]

Lol,it is my favorite of all of the wrasses.

I love the colors but he's not even ten minutes in the tank and he's already knocked down a grazing clip, taken the prime overhang and bossed around the kole tang that's been in the tank almost three years.

I sure hope this isn't the start of trouble.

 

[Thekid]

Here's the net

 

[krichardson]

Sounds like you've got yourself a troublemaker lol,hope it calms down.

 

[fishfanatic80]

Awesome pick up, I love tuskfish. Is it an indo or an Australian? Mine ended up getting harassed by my purple tang and sailfin then ended up getting ick from the elevated stress. Managed to nurse it back to health and give him away. Gorgeous fish though one of my favorites as well. Was a model reef citizen for me and would snap at the surface to let me know he was hungry. I love the puffer too but no experience here with porcupines, I've only kept dwarf puffers like the saddleback and blue spotted. I also had a mappa puffer too awhile ago come to think of it. Do you have any pictures of the tank?

 

[Thekid]

Awesome pick up, I love tuskfish. Is it an indo or an Australian? Mine ended up getting harassed by my purple tang and sailfin then ended up getting ick from the elevated stress. Managed to nurse it back to health and give him away. Gorgeous fish though one of my favorites as well. Was a model reef citizen for me and would snap at the surface to let me know he was hungry. I love the puffer too but no experience here with porcupines, I've only kept dwarf puffers like the saddleback and blue spotted. I also had a mappa puffer too awhile ago come to think of it. Do you have any pictures of the tank?

I'm not sure about locality. I just saw that it was a good deal on a fish I had been wanting for a while but I couldn't find a good healthy one that didn't cost the equivalent of a high schoolers paycheck. I had a porcupine for two and a half years when I got into the hobby but I lost him to ich after a heater died.
Fts-

 

[fishfanatic80]

Not bad at all. Are they the only fish in the tank. Here's my tank, what type of lighting are you using?