It seems like this post has lasted a little over a year, and apparently so has the puffer. I've seen him in there almost every time I go in, and finally today they told me today that I could adopt him for free. I have a video of him I can upload, but I'm almost positive it's the same fish. Any suggestions for keeping him healthy? I don't notice him surfacing as much as the previous video.
I would definitely disagree with this especially as they get older and bigger. Any inverts are not safe with porcupine puffers in my experience and research but like anything personality is going to vary but I would never trust a puffer with inverts.
I give my little guy clams and I open the shell slightly because when I don’t he looks at me like what is this Mom? I can’t open this…I give up! It’s safe to say he’s spoiled and domesticated lol! Also clams on the half shell are more widely accessible than frozen clams shell-on.
Perhaps I should have been more emphatic when I said “large”. It is all about relative sizes. Like how your smaller puffer can’t open clams on its own…
Okay good point. And I think he can he’s just too lazy/used to not having too anymore he’s not that small at least compared to my baby one I have now. I say this because I fed him a live crab before when I first got him and couldn’t get him to eat and he had no issue with them. And I know very well he was fed shelled cockle by the wholesaler he came from and was munching on crabs and clams in the warm waters off Costa Rica lol! And his bite leaves a mark lol he’s probably around 7 inches or so now they grow so fast haha. Plus I hear him crunching on the small clams I open for him haha. He is definitely domesticated/adapted now and used to me at least compared to when he was right out of the ocean which is basically how I got him. He was in the ocean a few days prior. Sorry off topic to the OP. Glad you can give him a good home and hopefully/maybe nurture him back to health.
Yes the Arvada Wadsworth and 80th location.
Look at the date I made this post June 18th 2023.
I have seen a bunch of tanks with triggers and puffers, and they had a good number of inverts. They just got ones too big for the fish to eat and they ignore them.
WHAT! CANCELLING IT!
The change will not take effect until you hit your renewal anniversary. So just disable auto renew on your membership. They will keep billing you for the remainder of the term with current benefits of 20% discounts plus live fish discount. Once current term expires they will not renew you for another year at the new benefits level as long as you turn auto renew off. Then you can keep using the good benefits while you still can. I am honestly not surprised they changed it. The deal was so lop sided in our favor. That 20% off fish was great. I was ordering all my expensive fish from Petco to get that 20% savings.
I know but if you reach out to them or block the payment you can get them to stop charging. I think the whole entire thing of a mandatory year is extremely stupid but there is a way around it.
