Valentini puffer personality

[Woodchip]

I’m really interested in the Valentini puffer anything I should know or do differently with it than other puffers? Anyone who has had personal experience with them do you have any funny stories about them? Love hearing from you guys thanks.

 

[jda]

They are easy going and usually not skittish. They will usually try and get at inverts and sometimes like to nibble at corals. Hardy and good eaters. I am sure that you probably saw all of this on other online write ups, but they are a straight forward fish.

 

[Ravsta]

I had one before I had corals. Loved him. This guy had character. Easy to feed and would eat anything and from my hand. Things went south when I introduced SPS. He rapidly developed a taste for SPS polyps so he had to go. I could’ve kept him in the sump but I wanted him to have a good life and a sump didn’t feel right.

 

[vetteguy53081]

They are colorful with yellow fins and very bashful yet friendly with other tankmates. They can nip both softies and SPS coral, but have seen cases whereas they bother nothing. they do require a varied diet of meaty foods including; squid, LRS reef frenzy, krill, clams, mysis shrimp and shelled shrimp to help wear down their teeth that does grow and needs to be trimmed.

 

[Sailingeric]

I have had on for a while. It does not seem to bother my corals but I have mostly softies, I feed frozen food and will throw in a mussel or a manilla clam a couple times a week and it loves it. Mine always has the look of deep thought before it does something and will often ride the wave from the power head, swim back towards it and then let it blow him back and do it over and over. At night is funny, it will wedge itself in the corner and go sound asleep.

 

[Kris 2020]

I had one for years. He didn’t bother my coral, but would eat any inverts he could. I really liked him. His name was Puffy McPufferton and he had a fabulous personality. Very sociable, would follow me as I walked by the tank. So freaking cute.

 

[Johniejumbo]

I have had one for almost 2 years. He was doing great in my reef tank for the first year and a half. Then it decided to like the taste of my Duncan’s and candy cane corals. Now it’s in my “other tank” lol. Lots of personality for sure! Cutest sleeping fish I’ve ever seen too lol. I get clean up crews from reef cleaners every so often. They come with dwarf cerith snails the he can pick at whenever it likes. As stated earlier. It is comical to watch it ride the waves from a power head lol.