BS?

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Charney

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So came across something interesting that I think maybe too good to be true. I came across someone selling stars and stripes puffer just shy of a foot long that are supposively true fw fish. They were collected in a landlocked region of Indonesian and have been there for generations and are now truly fw. They look really cool and would love to own one, but dont' want to spend a lot of money to kill a sw fish. Anyone heard of this guys or this situation?
 
Very interesting. I would say BS, but with freshwater Morays, BB Groupers, Seahorses, etc. I can't say for sure. Do they say what lake in Indonesia? I'd be asking a lot of questions before purchasing. Is this for sale online? Link?
 
Oddball said:
Not going to be easy to ID the exact lake of the 621 natural and man-made lakes and reservoirs in Indonesia.
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Oddball any other insight on the topic?
 
Oddball said:
Not going to be easy to ID the exact lake of the 621 natural and man-made lakes and reservoirs in Indonesia.
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google maps?


My solution was to have Jay buy the lot and see how they are in a year.
 
The depth range for the species is 1 - 50 meters making it a close inland species. That means Arothron hispidus has evolved to adjust for rapid decreases in salinity associated with rainfall and large FW dumps from river deltas. Unfortunately, it also means that unscrupulous vendors will try passing marine species as FW variants that will likely live long enough to reach customer tanks but will eventually become maintenance roller-coasters in a short time later.

The same thing happened about 20 years ago with a coastal seahorse species. A biologist discovered fossil remains of a possible FW seahorse species. Within a year, several vendors were offering FW seahorses for astronomic prices. The problem being that the biologist never found any living representatives of the species and the specimens being offered for sale exctly matched a marine species. People still lost money before the full truth of the hype campaign came out.
 
Google maps would be no help in finding out exactly where these fish were supposedly collected from..I'm gonna go with them being brackish.
 
Charney said:
google maps?


My solution was to have Jay buy the lot and see how they are in a year.
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Then what? Throw a dart?

I checked several FW and puffer species locality lists from universities for any mention of an Arothron species found in or near any inland waterways in Indonesia and have come up with nothing. I may not have gone back far enough. I only looked back to papers between now and the 1950s.
 
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