I have always loved puffers, Years ago back in Europe I had a Panda puffer which is an extremely rare variant of dogface that looks like a panda pattern, I can't even find many information on them and all I have to remember the fish by is a few 2mp camera pics.
I have always been tempted by them when I see them, especially when I had my first job working in a fish store and I saw the little figure 8s. So after Getting my oscar back to health and reintroducing him to my big tank I discovered that I could put something new in the tank. I spent days removing all the algae, doing an eventual 90% water change (over a few days) and treating the tank with anti ich medication (stopped a few days before I got the puffs, so they wouldn't be effected by the medication). This tank has always been a kind of lazy nothing special tank, And I feel now that I will really make it look cool.
After all my preperations I went to a cool LFS today and decided to get a pair of small Green spot puffers. I can assure you after all the research I did that I feel more than prepared to look after the fish. They were sold to me in full fresh water and I plan on slowly converting them to brackish maybe even full marine when they are mature (I like this idea). so here they are my two new little puffers
Yurt and Solaire (I am a big Demons'/dark souls fan) are currently in a 20gallon long and I know this won't do them for life but for now its more than adequate compared to what they were in at the LFS.
What is the growth rate for these guys, I know they aren't fast growers, so how much in say a month?
I have always been tempted by them when I see them, especially when I had my first job working in a fish store and I saw the little figure 8s. So after Getting my oscar back to health and reintroducing him to my big tank I discovered that I could put something new in the tank. I spent days removing all the algae, doing an eventual 90% water change (over a few days) and treating the tank with anti ich medication (stopped a few days before I got the puffs, so they wouldn't be effected by the medication). This tank has always been a kind of lazy nothing special tank, And I feel now that I will really make it look cool.
After all my preperations I went to a cool LFS today and decided to get a pair of small Green spot puffers. I can assure you after all the research I did that I feel more than prepared to look after the fish. They were sold to me in full fresh water and I plan on slowly converting them to brackish maybe even full marine when they are mature (I like this idea). so here they are my two new little puffers
Yurt and Solaire (I am a big Demons'/dark souls fan) are currently in a 20gallon long and I know this won't do them for life but for now its more than adequate compared to what they were in at the LFS.
What is the growth rate for these guys, I know they aren't fast growers, so how much in say a month?
