Dwarf Puffers

zshain012

zshain012

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Ok, so I lost almost everything in the ice/snow storm last month. I am looking to do something different. My tank is set back up and I have been looking up info about dp. Most ppl say they are purely fresh, or brackish. But I have seen multiple sites that say that dps can live in purely saltwater. I've been looking at the figure 8 puffers.
what do you all think?
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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They can, I don't remember which ones, but either figure eight puffers, or green spotted puffers actually migrate to a full sw in the wild. If it were me I'd figure out which one then do that. Because right now I can't remember.
 
zshain012

zshain012

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ok thanks. I've seen more articles about figure 8s in saltwater than I have the green spotted puffers, so I'm guessing they are the ones you are thinking about?
 
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eric b 125

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there's someone on these boards w/ green spotted puffers in a sw tank. i'll see if i can find the thread for you.
 
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eric b 125

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https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/329782/125-tank-diary
here ya go. if you have any questions about green spotted puffers, i'm guessing this person would be able to help you out.
 
ca161406

ca161406

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Originally Posted by Eric B 125
http:///forum/post/2962040
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=329782
here ya go. if you have any questions about green spotted puffers, i'm guessing this person would be able to help you out.
Im here im here! lol
anywhoo i wouldnt put fig8s in because theyre lower end brackish. GSPs migrate from the streams of asia to the indio pacific as they age. then return to the streams to bread and lay eggs. before you get one to acclimate to SW you gotta make sure its an actual GSP/tetraodon nigroviridis and not confused with ceylon puffer/tetraodon fluviatilis because it cannot tolerate the high sg levels. a ceylon will look like a mix between a fig8 and a gsp. also make sure its not a freshwater spotted puffer/tetraodon schoutedeni which has red eyes and a darker green.
when i acclimated my GSPs it took about 6 weeks. of course i didnt rush it and it probably could be done quicker but i didnt want to stress the fish, or spike the tank by killing the FW bacteria as it moved to SW.
so any questions feel free to ask, ill tell you theyre much happier, more active and colorful, and have grown faster sense being in SW. so ask away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtsBHWwJnVs <-vid
 
try2wryte

try2wryte

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I have a fully acclimated GSP, he was rather slow and docile for the first few weeks. He perked up when we tried live mealworms, but tired of that very quickly.
I did a little research and learned they go ga-ga over conch....I added that to my food mix of broccoli, scallops, shrimp, purple octopus, and nori and he goes nuts very time I feed....
now he will even swirl around my fingers while im breaking up the frozen chunk and dart for the first piece of conch that falls out...its cute
 
alex4286

alex4286

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dont get a green spotted dwarf puffer!
i bought two and within a month they both were DEAD. they caught some kind of 'fungus' i tried EVERYTHING in my power to save them with the treatments.. u name it i did it.. they r weak fish in my opinion but they were really entertaining. They also are very picky and MESSY eaters.. they leave sooo much food wasted and always spit food back out. I've never had anything die like that in my tank before
and btw mine were in brackish water they do best in this is what i was told.
 
ca161406

ca161406

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Originally Posted by pete159
http:///forum/post/2962484
the true 'dwarf puffer' is a freshwater fish only. They do best in a tank from 5-15g as they only get 1-2 inches.
http://dwarfpuffers.com/
yup those are Indian dwarf puffers. got a herd of 5 of them in my 90gal FW tank.
i call them "the snail patrol"

dont get a green spotted dwarf puffer!
i bought two and within a month they both were DEAD. they caught some kind of 'fungus' i tried EVERYTHING in my power to save them with the treatments.. u name it i did it.. they r weak fish in my opinion but they were really entertaining. They also are very picky and MESSY eaters.. they leave sooo much food wasted and always spit food back out. I've never had anything die like that in my tank before
and btw mine were in brackish water they do best in this is what i was told.
um, i think it was because you got fish too far gone.
i rescued mine from wal*mart when they were about half an inch. there were two in the tank, missing their entire tail fin and floating around with the current. they both inflated in the air when the stupid wal*mart associate was bagging them.
i got them home and in a week they were 100% better. that was like a year ago. now theyre fat happy puffers about 2.5 inches long and super active and social.
and saying that they are picky eaters tells me your fish were about to croak anyways. mine eat anything. pellets for the angle i had. anything meaty, anything with a shell. peas, sea veggies, nori. . . even the rocks!(well they bite them, not the corals though
hmm)
and any puffer is gonna make a mess....its a puffer
 
try2wryte

try2wryte

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Seriously if a GSP is becoming finicky, throw a piece of conch in there. it's like the the mother of all snails.... they love them..hveyou ever tried conch ca161406?
 
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