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zumiez09
Guest
If you do, I'd like to see pics and read more info on them. What size tank, are they reef safe?
cincyreefer
Active Member
Yeah, lots of people have blowfish... (AKA puffers). Check out the thread titled "Should I get a puffer"
murray bmf
Member
Here's my porky
murray bmf
Member
Actually a toby, but...
murray bmf
Member
Here's the pic, too much Bud to be messing around
oceanviews
Member
We have a baby porky, a panda puffer and a cortez puffer (all in separate systems). I would not trust them in reef systems or around invertebrates. Be sure to give them ample hiding places (it seems that the more places they have to hide, the more time they spend out in view) and rock work/empty shells so they can keep their teeth worn down. Puffers are some of the coolest fish around and they have one of the best personalities of any fish I have ever kept. I love our Puffers! here is our baby porky....
oceanviews
Member
here's our panda
oceanviews
Member
and our Cortez (by far the craziest puffer I have ever seen!)
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daniel411
Guest
Just a curious thought.
Which species of blowfish-puffer, is the one which is such a dangerous meal? I've never heard it called anything other than blowfish.
Which species of blowfish-puffer, is the one which is such a dangerous meal? I've never heard it called anything other than blowfish.
cincyreefer
Active Member
Pretty much all puffers... They contain a toxin called Tetrodotoxin which I believe is over a 1,000 times deadlier than cyanide. It can easily kill humans within a few minutes after consumption.
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daniel411
Guest
Originally posted by cincyreefer
Tetrodotoxin which I believe is over a 1,000 times deadlier than cyanide.
And just think thats going to be the new aspirin pretty soon!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...da_blowfish_dc
oceanviews
Member
Tetrodotoxin exists in the skin and the organs of these guys, that is why it is imperative that you remove them from your system immediately after death so that the other inhabitants do not pick on the body and become poisoned. If left in the tank, the entire system can be poisoned by the break-down of their highly-toxic organs.
conogre
Member
Actually, the only commonly found aggressive puffers are the tobies (small but deadly, guaranteed lionfish killers and murder in a reef tank) while most of the larger species are quite peaceful unless you're a shrimp or crab (also spelled "lunch")...they ignore most hard and soft corals but seem to have a definite taste for star polyps and the like.
We currently had an A. manilensis (striped) dogface, a porcupine and two species of burrfish, also sometime erroneously called porcupines or spiny boxfish).
We currently had an A. manilensis (striped) dogface, a porcupine and two species of burrfish, also sometime erroneously called porcupines or spiny boxfish).
murray bmf
Member
So they're gonna make aspirin out of puffers. All we need is another reason to kill those guys. It's bad enough they make those stupid souveniers out of them but now medicine:nope: