Green neon puffer

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
T

thacarter546

Gambusia
MFK Member
Aug 26, 2008
251
17
18
Midwest
I just bought a green neon puffer on impulse. I was told it only gets to be the size of a dwarf puffer. I got it for my 3 gallon desk lamp.

I google searched it and couldnt find anything about him. I searched through puffers on thatfishplace.com and he looks exactly and I mean exactly like the picture on the green bottle puffer. So I have been googling under that name with no luck.

I have him alone in one of the 3 gallon desk lamp aquariums with a cheapo 5-15 hob filter and 50w heater. The LFS couldnt tell me whether he was brackish or fresh, so I added a table spoon of marine salt.

If anyone has any experience with these I would greatly appreciate any help.

Are there any good low-light plants to keep in with him? Would he appreciate a tankmate or prefer to be alone? My prior experiences with GSP usually make me tend to house puffers alone. Another thing Im worried about is if he is a jumper. I am running no hood and it would be difficult to make a hood for this funny shaped aquarium.

I have already picked up a couple dozen pond snails and dumped them on the gravel (using that cheap black and white stuff from wally-world) I found a couple empty shells this morning.
 
not a green spotted puffer?
[YT]<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vmMi7QvE1XI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vmMi7QvE1XI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>[/YT]
 
^ That was my first thought, that it could be a GSP, except the original poster did mention he used to have a GSP, so unless he got the ID of his previous Puffer wrong i doubt its another GSP?

Any way, to the OP, don't take this the wrong way, since i know you weren't given the correct info, but as far as i know, basically no puffer, (even a dwarf) can live in a 3G tank for life comfortably... the absolute minimum recommended tank size for a Dwarf would be at least 5G (for singleton albeit possibly pushing it a little)

As for what you got, unless you have pics it be quite hard for us to ID... but you may want to check out The Pufferpedia over at the Pufferforum to see if you can ID what you got and what is needed for him/her...
 
A modestur or silus: http://www.**************.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Freshwater/
These are strictly FW & grow to 5". They also need regular teeth trimming a couple times/year. Is it in a cycled tank?
 
Well its definitely one of those two. Right now he is a light yellow/neon green color. He is really fast moving and aggressive. Anything that falls into the tank gets bit. I dropped a few snails in the gravel in hopes that they may reproduce quickly enough for him to have an ongoing source of snails, but Im already finding empty shells, so I doubt it.

Its a wierd shaped aquarium. I would feel comfortable housing a 1-1.5" puffer in it for life, but since he gets to be 3-4" Ill have to see how fast this dude grows. I may have to trade him off or if Im lucky Ill convince the parents to let me get him his own 20h.

So both of those species are full fresh?

The tank he is in was fully cycled, but I thought he was brackish, so I tore it down and rinsed the gravel and cleaned everything facepalm, On the upside I am using a 5-15 filter from an established tank.

It is most definitely not a gsp. I had them, well my dad kept the when I was young and had two around 5-6" for a long time, and lost them when we lost power. They used to be his all time fav fish. I got this lil dude cuz I though he was a dwarf species.
 
sedate, pick them out of the water with your net so your hand oils dont get on them, then press their lips back a little bit with cuticle clippers and then trim away at the bottom and top rows. or just keep a separate tank with a lot of snails in there for breeding purposes and throw one or two in every couple days and your doing your own dentistry without having to sedate or touch the fish :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom