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Green Pufferfish (Tetraodon fluviatilis)
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Wed July 5, 2006
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Description:
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Size: 4"
Temperature: 72-82
A lively, intolerant, aggressive fish though the young are generally peaceful. At all ages they are aggressive toward their own species. Best kept alone and if kept in a community tank, combine only with fish of similar size. Needs a bottom of fine gravel, planted densely around the edges and rear. Leave open swimming space in the center and add hiding places among rocks and inverted pots. Suggest hard, neutral water. The fish can tolerate fresh water but is at its best in brackish water.
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Oralacerta
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: July 2006
Location: Syracuse
Posts: 17
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Review Date: Wed July 5, 2006
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Price you paid?: Not Indicated
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This profile is innacurate. The scientific name and profile picture are of different species and the care information is wrong. Please read below:
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This profile is evidence that proper information on brackish water puffers is hard to find, and the species are often confused.
The puffer pictured is a Tetraodon nigroviridis, common name "Green Spotted Puffer".
http://www.pufferlist.com/puffer/bra....php?puffid=15
Juveniles have rounder-looking polka-dot spots, while the adults' spots become more irregular.
"Green Puffer" is too broad a common name, and is used for some freshwater species of pufferfish and shouldn't be encouraged. "Leopard" and "Spotted" puffer are also commonly used for this species in the fish trade.
The scientific name used in this profile belongs to a separate brackish species, the "Ceylon", Tetraodon fluviatilis.
http://www.pufferlist.com/puffer/bra....php?puffid=14
Ceylon puffers are rarely sold as Ceylons in the fish trade, and are normally seen confused with the smaller Figure Eight Puffer, or Tetraodon biocellatus.
http://www.pufferlist.com/puffer/bra....php?puffid=13
Tetraodon biocellatus
Green Spotted puffers and Ceylon Puffers can be told apart by the Green Spotted's polka dot pattern. The Ceylon has saddle-like marks on its back and then polka dots on its sides. A Ceylon basically looks like a cross between a Green Spotted and a Figure Eight, with both lines on its back, and spots on its sides. Also notice the Ceylon's reddish tinge on its fins.
The general care of Ceylons and Green Spotteds is similar, although a Tetraodon fluviatilis (Ceylon Puffer) grows to be 8" long while a Tetraodon nigroviridis (Green Spotted Puffer) grows to be 6" long.
The Green Spotted Puffer and the Ceylon Puffer are high-end brackish water fish as juveniles, requiring a SG of 1.008 - 1.010. Brackish water is made with Marine Salt, never Aquarium salt (which is simply sodium chloride, or table salt). A Hydrometer or Refractometer is required to measure salt levels (SG) in the tank.
In adulthood, (usually 1 1/2 - 2 years) a GSP or a Ceylon will need full-marine conditions (a SG of about 1.022). Neither of these fish will tolerate tankmates when full grown. They may tolerate another puffer (sometimes combos of 2 Ceylons, or 2 Green Spotteds, or even 1 Ceylon and 1 Green Spotted are successfully kept in a suitably sized tank of at least 60 gallons- more if a Ceylon is in the tank). The success of keeping two puffers together depends on the individual personalities of the fish, the tank size, and decoration of the tank.
Minimum tank requirements of Green Spotteds is 30 gallons per fish, although when trying to keep 2 together to maturity, more room is recommended so these fish can establish territories and avoid injuring one another.
Ceylons grow 2" larger than a Green Spotted and should be kept in 40 gallons each, minimum.
Because they are such rapid growers, if these fish are kept in anything smaller than 30 gallons, even while tiny and young, they will become stunted, therefore slowing their growth rate and shortening their life spans.
Their tanks must be heavily decorated as they are wild caught fish and come from a complex environment. They will become bored and stressed with a poorly decorated tank, and if more than one puffer is kept in a tank, there much be broken lines of sight to prevent territorial battles and allow the fish to escape from one another in event of an attack.
Crunchy live and frozen foods such as prawns, crayfish, shrimp, clams, and snails are required for proper nutrition and to prevent the puffer's teeth from over growing. These fish are not piscivores (fish eaters) and feeder fish contain diseases and harmful parasites. They are also mostly water and fat and therefore aren't healthy to feed to your puffer.
Once again, these fish are extremely aggressive and WILL NOT tolerate tank mates. As juveniles they may tolerate other fish, but that is because they are still babies.
When a puffer fish is small in the wild it is only focused on surviving and not being eaten by larger fish. As a puffer grows, however, the food it needs to survive is scarce and they stake out territories which they will violently defend from other fish. It is a survival instinct and puffers in aquaria exhibit the same behavior. Smaller tankmates will someday end up on the menu, and larger tankmates will be nipped an terrorized.
The life span of these fish is around 10 years if kept in the above conditions.
These fish will not surive in fresh water.
http://www.pufferlist.com/brackindex.htm
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