1st Time Puffer Keeping

[Pufferpunk]

Those are absolutely dwarf puffers, not figure 8 puffers & are strictly FW fish. You must get that salt out of there. How much did you add, BTW?

Follow the link in my sig to find the Pufferpedia there with profiles & pics of the 2 species.

 

[Danyal]

yea, they're DPs. f8 puffers aren't brown. and either way they sold you far too many. take a minute and read through the link in pufferpunks sig, she helped me out a lot several years ago when i was first getting into BW tanks

 

[pufferfreak]

yeah. freshwater. do a google search to clarify this. visit www.pufferresources.com or http://www.**************.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/

 

[Pufferpunk]

All that is left of Puffer Resources are Archives. That forum has been shut down for quite some time now.

 

[pufferfreak]

yeah but the profiles are up for viewing which is the direction i was pointing him in.

 

[TheJEWEL]

def not figure 8 puffer. looks like gsp to me- puffer punk probably right though. - dwarfs belong in fresh water.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Pufferpunk is also right--they are DPs.

 

[Daeorn]

Yeah, you see the difference quite quickly.

Fig 8's have swirly bright yellow/green patches such as: http://z.about.com/d/freshaquarium/1/0/K/J/puffer3.jpg

 

[Pufferpunk]

Actually, a better way to ID the F8 are the black eyespots on either side of their tail.

 

[pufferfreak]

Thats the first thing i learned about figure eights pufferpunk!