Finally! Pics of my Puffers.

Hey, all-

Haven't posted in a while - been swamped at work. I finally got a digital camera this past weekend and took a bunch of pics of my three puffers.

I compiled a collage of the best pics here:

http://www.signalburst.org/tintruong/puffers.html

The Target is about 3.5 inches now - he was about 2.5 when I got him four months ago. I feed him snails, live tubifex worms, shrimp, and muscle.

The F8 is about 2 inches. He was the one that was given to me by my LFS because he was all beat up from being in a tank with a bunch of Arrowheads. As you can see - he's almost new again - just a small nip on his tail. He was completely ragged when I got him 3 months ago. He eats snails and live tubifex worms.

The Arrowhead is about 3.5 inches - he was about 3 inches when I got him. He's the killer of the threesome. He eats about 10 feeder fishes a month, but I most hand feed him pieces of muscle and shrimp.

They're all doing really well. I'm keeping the Target and F8 in a BW tank. The Arrowhead in a FW tank.

Tinister

Thanks, Pufferpunk

I've always been unsure about Belushi's species. It was a toss up between Target and Fangs. The LFS was labeling him as a "Black River Puffer". I trust your knowledge - so from now on - he's a fangs puffer.

Tinister

Thanks Just takes a little patience and a lot of trial and error. I pretty much had to turn on the tank lights, room lights, AND the flash on the camera. Then I had to take every shot at an angle to the glass so that I didn't get any glare. I took about 50 shots in order to get the good ones that you see.

And of course - you have to wait for the puffer to do their thing. In my case - Ackroyd the Arrowhead wouldn't come out of his cage and Murray the F8 was constantly moving. Only Belushi the Fang would sit still for shots. That's whay there's so many of him and few of the other two.

RTR: Thanks Belushi is my favorite of the three. His color changes a lot. In the morning - he's almost completely orange-brown and his spots are gone. Towards the late evening - he's greenish in color with bluish spots. And at about middy - he's a light green with faint gray spots. And he gets really active when the moon lights kick in and the main lights kill.

BTW - I've had him in brackish water ever since I brought him home from the LFS. They had him for a little over a month in a BW tank. I tried to put him in a FW tank and he had that one incident I mentioned in a previous thread that resulted in an inflation that scared the crap out of me. So it's been brackish ever since and he seems to be fine.

Okay. I will slowly reduce the salt level beginning with this weekend's water change. I have to set up another brackish tank for the F8, though. It's tank developed a bad leak - which is why he's bunking with Belushi.

Tin