My lfs has a beautiful baby Valentini puffer that I've been thinking about adding to my tank. Just wondering if anyone here has had actual experience with this fish. I've read websites that say it's not reef-safe and is sometimes aggressive, but then the forums say they are good personality, compatible, reef-safe fish. I know puffers eat inverts, etc. but I've been reading a lot about people who keep them fed and they don't bother anyone else in the tank. They even get to be buddies with other fish.
Valentini Puffer
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Never had one but I know people who have had them. They told me that they ARE NOT reef-safe. They learned the hard, ate all there crabs and snails and picked at their corals. You may get lucky and pick out a "reef-safe" one, they are out there.
Can I ask you some question about Marine biology majors? I'm currently a high school student and want to go into marine biology. What colleges are great for marine biology?
Can I ask you some question about Marine biology majors? I'm currently a high school student and want to go into marine biology. What colleges are great for marine biology?
I am currently at San Diego State University. San Diego is the capital for Marine studies on the West Coast. SDSU, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC, and all those school on the coast are pretty good for marine bio. San Diego has the Scripps Research Center which is huge and focuses on nothing but marine. We've got the Birch aquarium, Sea World, all those places that all focus on marine studies and we launch hundreds of at-sea studies. I had TA who was leaving San Diego on a research boat that he was going to study killer whales for 6 months. So yeah, the West Coast seems to be the best to me. That and I grew up in
UNCW has a decent Marine Biology program and a great coastal environment, but it sounds like there aren't too many jobs for Marine Bio majors that don't want to teach. (I switched majors to EVS, but still took some Marine Biology and a few related courses out of interest).
I have a Valentini Toby in a 20g semi-reef. It WILL eat small inverts, but it gets along great with my Fridmani Pseudochromis and leaves my mushrooms alone. I have a dozen or so hermits and an emerald crab that the puffer ignores, but shrimp are toast. The puffer has the best personality and is very interactive with anybody looking in. Everyone that comes by comments on the Puffer. The puffer has been my best livestock purchase.
I have a Valentini Toby in a 20g semi-reef. It WILL eat small inverts, but it gets along great with my Fridmani Pseudochromis and leaves my mushrooms alone. I have a dozen or so hermits and an emerald crab that the puffer ignores, but shrimp are toast. The puffer has the best personality and is very interactive with anybody looking in. Everyone that comes by comments on the Puffer. The puffer has been my best livestock purchase.