I had a single male Tetraodon schoutedenI in the tank and I found a local shop selling some wild caught female Tetraodon schoutedeni large size.
the price was very expensive but since the puffers are rare to find I bought them anyway. Of course after some time so that the quarantine period for them was over. As soon as I placed them in my tank where there Was already a male . The mating started and the male started biting and hang on the belly of the both females.I but I do not see any eggs being dropped by females comparing to what I see of other videos on YouTube by people who has these fishes. I got a bit suspicious of maybe these two females already had many babies in wild and they are great grand mothers to many where they were caught. And all now I got is some old granny puffers which I wouldn’t know how much more of their life remained. So my question is how to know whether these puffers are not too old?
I tried searching a lot but couldn’t find anything on net. They eat well and the eat a lot. Generally looks fine and they now can escape and avoid the male as I placed many hiding places for them. They are not afraid of me unlike the SAPs that are afraid of their own shadow.
I would appreciate if you could share your experience so that I could know whether these two are too old or not. As I have paid a lot of money for these two. I still have couple of days that I can return them. The shop has given me exclusive 10 days return policy.
the price was very expensive but since the puffers are rare to find I bought them anyway. Of course after some time so that the quarantine period for them was over. As soon as I placed them in my tank where there Was already a male . The mating started and the male started biting and hang on the belly of the both females.I but I do not see any eggs being dropped by females comparing to what I see of other videos on YouTube by people who has these fishes. I got a bit suspicious of maybe these two females already had many babies in wild and they are great grand mothers to many where they were caught. And all now I got is some old granny puffers which I wouldn’t know how much more of their life remained. So my question is how to know whether these puffers are not too old?
I tried searching a lot but couldn’t find anything on net. They eat well and the eat a lot. Generally looks fine and they now can escape and avoid the male as I placed many hiding places for them. They are not afraid of me unlike the SAPs that are afraid of their own shadow.
I would appreciate if you could share your experience so that I could know whether these two are too old or not. As I have paid a lot of money for these two. I still have couple of days that I can return them. The shop has given me exclusive 10 days return policy.
