Puffers
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They're a SW member of the puffer family that live in the Caribbean.
I was skin diving in the Keys once, at the 1st set of coral heads just off of Little Palm Island. I had 12 kids with me snorkling the reef and all of a sudden, I look down, and there is this basketball-sized fish under me picking stuff off the rocks. Huge! Then it puffed out for us, and truely did look like a spikey basketball. I haven't yet seen anything like it again.
They're not much to look at as far as color goes, but they have the puffer eyes, which are just awsome. Leopard puffers are okay, they're my 2nd fave.
~~Colesea
They're a SW member of the puffer family that live in the Caribbean.
I was skin diving in the Keys once, at the 1st set of coral heads just off of Little Palm Island. I had 12 kids with me snorkling the reef and all of a sudden, I look down, and there is this basketball-sized fish under me picking stuff off the rocks. Huge! Then it puffed out for us, and truely did look like a spikey basketball. I haven't yet seen anything like it again.
They're not much to look at as far as color goes, but they have the puffer eyes, which are just awsome. Leopard puffers are okay, they're my 2nd fave.
~~Colesea
Just bought my first puffer--the store said it's a young dwarf puffer. It's pea-size, kind of yellow with blackish spots and living in my 10-gal. community tank with a couple guppies.
Is anyone familiar with this kind of puffer? Will he grow teeth?...he's really tiny now. So cute with those rotating eyes! :
Is anyone familiar with this kind of puffer? Will he grow teeth?...he's really tiny now. So cute with those rotating eyes! :
Here`s a cool site on Puffers. Some of them are dificult to tell apart. The common Spotted Puffer can live in fresh, or slightly brackish water. A couple of others that look almost alike need different water conditions. http://puffernet.tripod.com/nigroviridis.html
Dwarf puffers, my favorite, max out at about an inch, and he would do quite comforatbly in even a little 2 gallon by himself.. Heres a few links to get you started one learning about your new fish!
http://www.rr.iij4u.or.jp/~kohda/en/en-dwarfpuffer.htm - this person had bred hers a couple times, very extensive information..
http://home.t-online.de/home/schraml.e/21art1e.htmSome basic care info and pictures..
http://www.pufferfish.co.uk/aquaria/species/pufferfish/types/tetrtrav.htm Some info, but not to much!
http://www.rr.iij4u.or.jp/~kohda/en/en-dwarfpuffer.htm - this person had bred hers a couple times, very extensive information..
http://home.t-online.de/home/schraml.e/21art1e.htmSome basic care info and pictures..
http://www.pufferfish.co.uk/aquaria/species/pufferfish/types/tetrtrav.htm Some info, but not to much!
