NEW PUFFER!! GOT SUM PICS AND QUESTIONS!!!

[Kuda]

Ok i'll have some pics up in a bit, anyway its a green spotted puffer, i relized these were brakish as i purchased him, but im being told that i will soon have to have him in FULL MARINE conditions, is this true??

 

[Kuda]

heres the lil snail crusher, sry for the blurry pics, im a lil shaky

 

[ZOO YORK 207]

how much for the little bugger? yes i belive that they have to go full marine am i correct? well anyway hows he doin?

 

[Kuda]

hes doin good, the tanks high brakish and hes doin great he's swollen right now, he ate an earthworm 2x his size, but ya hes doin fine

oh yea, he was 5 bux

 

[Nic]

this would have been better in the salt water brackish section. but i have heard of them living in brackish for life.

 

[Kuda]

good to hear, i may keep him for awhile, till i find the perfect fw puffer for me, he just ate a crayfish, and i fell in love with him

 

[johno27]

Yes I had one that lived in my salt tank for a few years before he was eaten by a gold line grouper. These puffers seem to be much happier in full salt than they are in brackish.
Mine usually died within a few months in brackish

I hope he does well for you anyway

But if he doesn't try a fahaka they are fresh to slightly brackish and are cool as well

 

[Fella]

Yes I had one that lived in my salt tank for a few years before he was eaten by a gold line grouper. These puffers seem to be much happier in full salt than they are in brackish.
Mine usually died within a few months in brackish

I hope he does well for you anyway

But if he doesn't try a fahaka they are fresh to slightly brackish and are cool as well

Fahakas are totally fresh, no salt needed!

 

[robroy]

I've kept my 2 Green Spots for 4 years now in freshwater-no problems and still going strong. Yes I've read they require salt but I've never bothered yet they are thriving in a tank with soem polypterus, tigerfish & leopard ctenopoma.

 

[Kuda]

really?? thats crazy, u sure there gsp