The Other Freshwater Puffers

SchizotypalVamp

SchizotypalVamp

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So who here has experience with freshwater puffers which are not the Pea Puffer? I know at least one person does, because they were requesting to buy them on this forum. My fiance is a puffer fanatic and I would love to surprise him one day by getting him some, and I am really fond of them myself.

This has nothing to do with my post on the tiny freshwater fish thread. Nothing at all. Nope....

Another question is how reliable is The Puffer Forum?

Thanks, all!
 
I'm most interested in Carinotetraodon irrubesco(one of the species sharing the name of the Red-tailed Red-Eyed Puffer, though if you know about puffers you probably knew about that already.) However, really, any puffer experience is good. Or good links, too. Heck, in the far future a 2 foot puffer sounds awesome, heh.
 
The Puffer Forum is great, that was the first fish forum I ever joined.

Did you want big freshwater or small? There are red eye puffers which are neat though seem to be rare in the US and can sometimes go in community tanks. There are lurker species that bury themselves in substrate and there are big puffers like fahakas. Many puffers have to be kept in species only tanks and by themselves though.

Then of course there are the awesome brackish ones and marine, the one in my avatar is brackish, a GSP
 
Really, this is more like a share-your-puffer-experience post for anyone who has kept them :), like you! The Red-tailed Red-Eyed puffers are the ones I have my eye on the most right now.

I read the freshwater species profiles on the puffer forum, btw.
 
Okay well I've only kept brackish and marine, lol but GSPs sure are cute and are readily available! :D

Do you have an LFS that will order what you want? I don't see many freshwater puffers around here.
 
puffers are awesome but if you get them and try to put them in a community tank make sure you have a separate tank that can take the puffer


learned that the hard way and ate all the fins of my mollies:wall:
 
Well, I found a link to a site that sells red-tailed red-eyes for $9.95 +shipping, though I'm not going to get them now now. I am pretty sure my LFS takes special order, also.

No puffers in the community tank, lol. Maybe one day I'll try one of the ones that buries itself in the sand all the time. But only with extreme caution.
 
Red tailed red eyed puffers are really cool looking puffers. If I was going to get a puffer again, that's what I'd get.

I kept a figure 8 for several years...don't let anyone tell you they're FW because they do much better in BW. Mine had a tooth plate issue after several years and was unable to feed effectively...also, I have no clue what his age was because he was full grown at the LFS - so maybe the tooth plate problem was an age thing. I still miss him...he was my families favorite fish, ever.

I've also kept DPs, but they're too small for my tastes.

Eric
 
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