Hewbie says hello and he loves crawfish!

AydenLincoln · Jul 12, 2023

NOM! NOM!

blaxsun · Jul 12, 2023

Hand fed I'm guessing? Sounds like Hewbie is all mended?

exnisstech · Jul 12, 2023

Those porkies are so darn cute. Wonder how one would be in a 180g with 5 tangs and lot of open swim room :thinking-face:

DonTavo27 · Jul 12, 2023

Super cute!

AydenLincoln · Jul 12, 2023

blaxsun said:
Hand fed I'm guessing? Sounds like Hewbie is all mended?

No because if I do hold it he bites me lol! Here is the link to the full video. I just drop his food in the tank. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cud09ILAreP/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

AydenLincoln · Jul 12, 2023

exnisstech said:
Those porkies are so darn cute. Wonder how one would be in a 180g with 5 tangs and lot of open swim room :thinking-face:

That should work especially if you buy a smaller one unless you have inverts and corals then it won’t work.

blaxsun · Jul 13, 2023

AydenLincoln said:
No because if I do hold it he bites me lol! Here is the link to the full video. I just drop his food in the tank.

Murder on the Orient Express! Dang he's a messy eater! lol

littlefoxx · Jul 13, 2023

AydenLincoln said:
NOM! NOM!

Glad to see Hewbie os doing well! I lost my guy a week in. Was treating him for mild ich and he passed, learned that while the LFS had him for a month and a half they ran pure copper in the tank he was in

AydenLincoln · Jul 13, 2023

littlefoxx said:
Glad to see Hewbie os doing well! I lost my guy a week in. Was treating him for mild ich and he passed, learned that while the LFS had him for a month and a half they ran pure copper in the tank he was in

Oh no I’m so sorry to hear this!:(

AydenLincoln · Jul 13, 2023

blaxsun said:
Murder on the Orient Express! Dang he's a messy eater! lol

HAHA! Yup that would be puffers lol! They love to chew their food and spit it back out and put it back in their mouth and spit it out again and finally they’ll swallow it lol!

Townes_Van_Camp · Jul 13, 2023

AydenLincoln said:
HAHA! Yup that would be puffers lol! They love to chew their food and spit it back out and put it back in their mouth and spit it out again and finally they’ll swallow it lol!

My last puffer did that with a piece of my finger. I hand fed krill. I also would put on a nitrile glove and pet him. One day i put my finger in for a pet without a glove. Pierre got a good chunk, spit it out, swam to it for his up close inspection then decided it passed all quality standards and consumed human.

blaxsun · Jul 13, 2023

Townes_Van_Camp said:
My last puffer did that with a piece of my finger. I hand fed krill. I also would put on a nitrile glove and pet him. One day i put my finger in for a pet without a glove. Pierre got a good chunk, spit it out, swam to it for his up close inspection then decided it passed all quality standards and consumed human.

I much prefer the soft grazing from my cleaner wrasse...

Townes_Van_Camp · Jul 13, 2023

blaxsun said:
I much prefer the soft grazing from my cleaner wrasse...

Or even when the cleaner shrimp gets a bit exuberant under the fingernail. The puffer bite was much worse. Lest we forget a savage attack on his caregiver. Cute as can be though so I let it slide.

AydenLincoln · Jul 13, 2023

Townes_Van_Camp said:
My last puffer did that with a piece of my finger. I hand fed krill. I also would put on a nitrile glove and pet him. One day i put my finger in for a pet without a glove. Pierre got a good chunk, spit it out, swam to it for his up close inspection then decided it passed all quality standards and consumed human.

The injury and the assailant!

Townes_Van_Camp · Jul 13, 2023

AydenLincoln said:
The injury and the assailant!

Mine got a piece of the cuticle. I do believe that's why it hurt so bad. But dang they are cute fish. I wish I had a tank to accommodate one today. Even a toby would be fun but I don't trust them with crunchy coral. I'll live vicariously through your posts.

littlefoxx · Jul 13, 2023

AydenLincoln said:
Oh no I’m so sorry to hear this!:(

Where did you get Hewbie and Baby Hewbie? Im looking at one from bluezoo for another time but I heard they dont ship well

AydenLincoln · Jul 13, 2023

littlefoxx said:
Where did you get Hewbie and Baby Hewbie? Im looking at one from bluezoo for another time but I heard they dont ship well

Hewbie I specially ordered from my local Petco and Baby Hewbie I got a Reef-A-Palooza/NYAquatic. I’d definitely recommend purchasing one in person if possible.

AydenLincoln · Jul 13, 2023

Townes_Van_Camp said:
Mine got a piece of the cuticle. I do believe that's why it hurt so bad. But dang they are cute fish. I wish I had a tank to accommodate one today. Even a toby would be fun but I don't trust them with crunchy coral. I'll live vicariously through your posts.

I know they are so I could never stay mad at his cute little face no matter how much it hurts! :pleading-face: