Puffer thread #6

[Freshman]

Originally Posted by Occellatus

great!

I remembered theres one species of FW puffer whereby we can comm with other fishes rite? Issit the Palembang? Or issit the mbu? Cant rem which is which already..too long not in the puffer scene.

I think u r referring to mbu puffer...
seen video and read that it is comm-able.. mild temper puffer.. but can grow huge..require huge tank

palembang is comm-able with its own kind.. but of cos tank must be big enough to provide each with its own territory..

dwarf puffer also comm-able.. hehehe

[Occellatus]

Originally Posted by Freshman

I think u r referring to mbu puffer...
seen video and read that it is comm-able.. mild temper puffer.. but can grow huge..require huge tank

palembang is comm-able with its own kind.. but of cos tank must be big enough to provide each with its own territory..

dwarf puffer also comm-able.. hehehe

Palembang comm-able with palembang...but issit commable with other fishes bro? Able to advise?

[Magnumchoy]

Originally Posted by Occellatus

Palembang comm-able with palembang...but issit commable with other fishes bro? Able to advise?

Maybe. If it's tank mates are not easily bullied just dropped by y618 to get deworm med, there's bout 7 fahakas, condition still not too bad but the tank is v small, got quite a few bite marks on some already. Faster go grab!

[Freshman]

hmm.. risky lah.. cos puffer BITE.. one chuck of meat each time..

tankmate no much chance of survival from a fatal bite.

ultimately have to see what fish.. n tank size.. and whether u want to take any risk or not.

[Occellatus]

Thks magnum and fresh....need to set up a seperate tank for the fahaka...if i were to get it.

i bought this puffer two weeks ago..its doing fine..but i cant find the name..the lfs guy said its frm china and its a FW puffer.i keep it with my palembang and 2 pacus...it had one chinese name that i forgot....[http://img149.imageshack.us/i/puffer1.jpg/ http://img695.imageshack.us/i/puffer11.jpg/ http://img251.imageshack.us/i/puffer12.jpg/

[Occellatus]

Refer to post #182 bro jake...exactly the one as Freshman has identified.

Its not a freshwater puffer.

wow thx...is it a rare species??

[Magnumchoy]

Originally Posted by jake800

i bought this puffer two weeks ago..its doing fine..but i cant find the name..the lfs guy said its frm china and its a FW puffer.i keep it with my palembang and 2 pacus...it had one chinese name that i forgot....[IMG][/IMG]

That's a takifugu puffer, it's a brackish to fully marine puffer. It's almost impossible to comm it with the palembang under the same water conditions, probably it's still young, just like the GSP and the F8, they will do ok in FW when young but when it grows older there will be serious health problems if still kept in FW. That aside, it's a very interesting puffer with bubs load of personality

so any suggestions what should i do now?