post you puffer pics!!!!!!

cafero702

cafero702

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Originally Posted by cmc3502
http:///forum/post/2595992
anyone here have corals in their tank or inverts?
I have Large and small hemrit crabs and large turbo snails and a couple scooter blennys
also a variety of polyps and mushrooms
and my porcupine puffer has never touched anything or anyone of them once lol
 
barngirl

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I have coral, the porcupine is fine with them, only a sandsifting starfish... ;)
He ate the blue damsels!
This guy also LOVES krill, my bad starting letting him eat out of my hand, sharp teeth he has... :D
Have him with a pair of Gold Maroon clowns...
 
cafero702

cafero702

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Thats about how big mine was when i got him lol
Mine will only eat krill also he wont touch silversides at all!
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by cafero702
http:///forum/post/2596810
Thats about how big mine was when i got him lol
Mine will only eat krill also he wont touch silversides at all!
On a sidenote, you really shouldn't just feed your little guy krill. There was a post a couple weeks ago of a guy who did that, and the puffer was having nutrience related problems. Well lack of.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by Joshr
http:///forum/post/2596974
Can you keep puffers with Corals?
You can, but the corals probably won't survive. Puffers are like dogs during their I'ma puppy I want to chew on everything phase. They chew on everything.
 
tropills

tropills

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/2597036
You can, but the corals probably won't survive. Puffers are like dogs during their I'ma puppy I want to chew on everything phase. They chew on everything.
IMO this is un-true, I have had a large porcupine in my reef tank for several years, He is now over 11 inches, here is a pic of him about 3 months ago (note all the corals
)
 
the egregious

the egregious

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Originally Posted by tropills
http:///forum/post/2597513
IMO this is un-true, I have had a large porcupine in my reef tank for several years, He is now over 11 inches, here is a pic of him about 3 months ago (note all the corals
)
+1 as long as you don't have inverts lol.
 
cafero702

cafero702

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/2596881
On a sidenote, you really shouldn't just feed your little guy krill. There was a post a couple weeks ago of a guy who did that, and the puffer was having nutrience related problems. Well lack of.
Well i try to get him to eat anything else posbbile. He wont touch silversides or flakes or anything. Even when i soak the krill in vitamins and then feed it to him he wont eat it.
What should i try any suggestions????
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by cafero702
http:///forum/post/2597790
Well i try to get him to eat anything else posbbile. He wont touch silversides or flakes or anything. Even when i soak the krill in vitamins and then feed it to him he wont eat it.
What should i try any suggestions????

Go to the seafood counter at the grocery store and get a few fresh oysters, clams, maybe some crab, try some fish and shrimp. My puffer LOVED oysters although he didn't really eat silversides.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by The Egregious
http:///forum/post/2597532
+1 as long as you don't have inverts lol.
Porkys are a little different, but you are the first person I've ever seen say they've had success with dogface in a reef, think of it like a vegan, they exist but I've never met one.
 
the egregious

the egregious

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haha, I didn't even know that people had problems with DFs' until you said so. I would never have guessed it judging from how mine acts.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by The Egregious
http:///forum/post/2598163
haha, I didn't even know that people had problems with DFs' until you said so. I would never have guessed it judging from how mine acts.
Don't get me wrong I am happy for your success, I have 2 dwarf angels that get along great no problems whatsoever. That isn't suppose to happen either. But puffers will chew on anything from powerheads to little fish and everything in between usually. I've seen a larger puffer bite through a powercord to a heater. poor guy. It all depends on the fish (as is usually he case) but for the most part puffer are not reef safe. Especially dogfaces and other larger puffers. I do what to try and put a GSP in a nano reef tank I think that would be fun, especially since naturally they never see corals.
 
cafero702

cafero702

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/2598146
Go to the seafood counter at the grocery store and get a few fresh oysters, clams, maybe some crab, try some fish and shrimp. My puffer LOVED oysters although he didn't really eat silversides.
Really? At the grocery store?? I think ill try the oysters and clams. but dont they come in shells? I should pop them out of the shells and thaw them out just like i would my krill and drop it in and see if he likes it?
 
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