puffer fish

My white spotted puffer has been puffing up lately, anyone know why ? The other day my temperature was at 81 Mabey he was too hot now it’s at 78 and he puffed up again . Anyone know why?

Hi Fellow Reefers, I prefer to give all of my fish that can safely tolerate it a freshwater dip during their 2 month quarantine prior to releasing them into my display tank. I never exceed 5 minute long freshwater dips and remove fish early if I witness any concerning behavior outside of what I...

Hey there my new reef family I hope everyone has had an awesome day. My question is I want corals but i have a honeycomb toby puffer. He loves snails and tries to stalk my hermit crabs from time to time but is a very timid guy. Is there any corals I might be able to get away with and that are...

I recently lost my lawnmower blenny and moved my pair of Ocellaris clowns to a new setup. I want to add a new fish to my 30 gallon tank and came across someone saying that the Valentini puffer would be okay around the coral in my tank. I just moved all the hammers to the new setup as well and...

I have a valentini puffer and feed him mysis cubes, shrimp, snow crab legs, among others but im looking for something that will self sustain itself in a 35 gallon tank. I want snails that breed readily with no effort that my puffer can eat. There are certain types that are bad like trochus...

i have a spiny box puffer who look s really bad compared to the clown fish and lion fish i have in qt to he loooks to mave a lot of white spots that just showed up this morning like crazy i am dosing copper safe by mardel and he's been doing good for around 2 months in it now all of the sudden...

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Alright I have an 8’ 150g AIO FOWLR tank, and I am looking for 1 or 2 fish to add to the tank. It is currently housing the following: 4” Red Tooth Trigger 4” Foxface Lo 5” Volitan Lionfish 3” Falco Hawkfish 8” Yellowhead Moray Eel 7” Snowflake Eel I am looking to add something that can handle...

TLDR: help me ID this fish I bought, I think it was mislabeled/represented and I’m new to this Hi all, new to the saltwater aquarium world. I used this forum to get me started and would like to say thanks for all the help and info I’ve received so far just by reading though previous threads...

This thread is for the general discussion of the classified ad Houston, TX - 20" Mappa Puffer (Arothron mappa) map pufferfish. For more information about this item, please click the link or ask a question in this thread. Please add to the discussion here.

Good Morning! I recently got this little guy assuming that this puffer is a Diodon Holocanthus. However, upon receiving him, I noticed some features such as the shorter spines on him that are making me also think that he could be a Diodon Hystrix. The vendor I received him from told me that...

Hey all, i was looking into some puffer fish. I am aware that it would be a roll of the dice if it comes to corals, inverts will be killed. Im probably taking the shot to get a valentine puffer, but... what are good cleaners that will be left alone by the puffer? I'm not concerned by algae as i...

Please help puffer fish idk what is on its fin I gave it a fresh water dip

I just bought this porcupine puffer fish should I fresh water dip him ? Also is he ok with dog face puffer fish ?

Hi everyone, I’ve had my Valentini puffer for about 4 months and have always fed mysis shrimp and half shell clams, but I got a wyoming white clownfish yesterday and realized while feeding that the puffer also enjoys pellets, would it be okay to feed pellets most of the time and feed half shell...

Does your porcupine puffer eat inverts?

Live aquaria has the option to buy one from hawaii or one from sumatra. I was wondering if anyone knew the differences and if one is a better choice than the other? The Hawaii one is listed also as medium but twice the price as the Sumatra one. thank you! Brieanna

So i have a porcupine puffer and have had him almost a year now, but today when i came home one of his eyes lost the blue fluorescent color to it, does anyone know what it could be and why does this happen?

I just got this puffer in the mail today, the bag had hardly any air in it so I tried to work fast. I floated him for about 10 min and drip acclimated him for I’d say 45min doubling the water volume twice. I did not net him or remove him from the water he did not puff up at all. He was swimming...

So I’ve had my porcupine puffer in QT for 25 days now being treated with copper safe. I have also treated prazipro and maracyn two over the last couple of weeks. Any one able to identify what this is on his skin? He’s been eating pretty well and responding to food good. He goes nuts for krill...

Bought 2 days ago from Petco, looks great and eats right from my tongs. Other smaller fish in the tank really don’t like him and hide, looking to re-home. $25 OBO

I had purchased a MAPPA puffer from NY Aquatics 4 days ago. The puffer seems healthy, but has not interest in food. I am not that experienced with puffers, so not sure what is the best method to try and entice to eat. I was thinking of ghost shrimp next as I already tried clams on a half...

My valentini puffer was hanging around the back corner and two big brown globs came out his belly. one was a little smaller but they had 2 black dots on them but I can’t find where it went to take photos. what was that??? Should I be worried? I only have one puffer in the tank.

All, thank you for your warm welcome to the site and your answers to all my previous questions. After all of the gathered info, I decided to do a build post. I will stick mainly to images with a little annotation. I started 2 months ago with nothing. I bought a 50 gallon Lowboy system that is...

Hi guys, I got this Fiji blue spot puffer about a month ago. It shipped looking like this and I’ve been feeding it a mix of krill, mysis, lfs chunky blend and clams on the half shell soaked in selcon. He’s become addicted to the krill, and I’ve been trying to ween him off. LFS said to starve him...