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Puffers are my all time favorite! And finally got myself puppy! Stars and stripes.
Please share yours!!!
Please share yours!!!
Show off the bulldogs stuck in a fish's body..... the PUFFERS!!!
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My valentini puffer. He’s been a bad boy lately, getting nippy with my poor betta
omg! He’s chunky!! I had one he was a buddy to everyone.
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Such a handsome devilHere's my buck tooth fatty.
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Happy one week being home lil dude!
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One of these puffer show off threads should have a sticky!
I picked this guy up yesterday from my LFS. He just arrived and I took him home in the wholesalers bag. He was labeled as a canthigaster solendri, blue spotted Toby. He doesn’t look like what I expected. I think he is kind of ugly.
He is much lighter than other pictures I’ve seen. There is a lot more yellow and orange. His body seems almost misshapen with a protrusion above and behind his head, and his skin wrinkles when he bends. He is big, about 4 inches. He eats and swims well. Do you see anything I should be concerned about?
I picked this guy up yesterday from my LFS. He just arrived and I took him home in the wholesalers bag. He was labeled as a canthigaster solendri, blue spotted Toby. He doesn’t look like what I expected. I think he is kind of ugly.
He is much lighter than other pictures I’ve seen. There is a lot more yellow and orange. His body seems almost misshapen with a protrusion above and behind his head, and his skin wrinkles when he bends. He is big, about 4 inches. He eats and swims well. Do you see anything I should be concerned about?
Our new puppy. Love this fish. Was super hard to get acclimated first week. But has come around actually hand feeds from chopsticks now if he doesn't jump out of water and snatch the food first.
Gets all exited just like a dog wagging all his fins and spitting bubbles whenever he sees us lol
Super cool fish. Eats a ton.
Gets all exited just like a dog wagging all his fins and spitting bubbles whenever he sees us lol
Super cool fish. Eats a ton.
This is great man. What do you feed?Here's my buck tooth fatty.
Thinking about offering clam on half shell to help with the bucktoothyness lol
One of these puffer show off threads should have a sticky!
I picked this guy up yesterday from my LFS. He just arrived and I took him home in the wholesalers bag. He was labeled as a canthigaster solendri, blue spotted Toby. He doesn’t look like what I expected. I think he is kind of ugly.
He is much lighter than other pictures I’ve seen. There is a lot more yellow and orange. His body seems almost misshapen with a protrusion above and behind his head, and his skin wrinkles when he bends. He is big, about 4 inches. He eats and swims well. Do you see anything I should be concerned about?
His faded coloring is likely due to stress and is also indicative of internal parasites. These guys do come in with internal parasites frequently, so treatment is highly recommended. If he is in a qt dosing the tank with general cure would be effective and the easiest.
I posted a thread about my problem with his teeth, this is the only puffer I ever had issues with, I'm still trying to figure it out. Do a search, some people feed snails, I don't know what kind though, start him young.
Buck Toothed Puffer
This is my 4th arothron puffer over a 30 year span, until now, I have never had a dental issue. Every puffer until this one, somehow managed to keep their teeth filed down. I think this one even gets more crunchy stuff that is usually recommended to help with this issue. The difference, this is...
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He's in res with a bunch of snails, clams etc. Going to try the half shell to see if I can persuade and give a taste for him lol.I posted a thread about my problem with his teeth, this is the only puffer I ever had issues with, I'm still trying to figure it out. Do a search, some people feed snails, I don't know what kind though, start him young.
Buck Toothed Puffer
This is my 4th arothron puffer over a 30 year span, until now, I have never had a dental issue. Every puffer until this one, somehow managed to keep their teeth filed down. I think this one even gets more crunchy stuff that is usually recommended to help with this issue. The difference, this is...
Very cool man
I like the bucktooth on yours.
Builds character!
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Okay this is my plan. He is in quarantine now with CP. I just picked up general cure and give that once he is out of CP.
Thanks for making feel better that maybe I don’t have the ugliest puffer
Okay this is my plan. He is in quarantine now with CP. I just picked up general cure and give that once he is out of CP.
Thanks for making feel better that maybe I don’t have the ugliest puffer
If he's eating it's not urgent, but if he stops eating and does have internal parasites, it can turn bad quickly. Meds are not my expertise but you can also mix treatment in food. If he is eating many prefer to do this; I'm not sure if dosing food and dosing cp at the same time is safe. How long is the cp tretment?
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I use tweezers with diamond dust files epoxied to ends for feeding. Keeps teeth in great condition. Easy to mix general cure with clam, krill etc for internal worms/parasites. No such thing as an ugly puffer. That’s like saying there’s such thing as an ugly bulldog.
I use tweezers with diamond dust files epoxied to ends for feeding. Keeps teeth in great condition. Easy to mix general cure with clam, krill etc for internal worms/parasites. No such thing as an ugly puffer. That’s like saying there’s such thing as an ugly bulldog.
Great idea! Digging the bulldog refference as well
had a Johnson bully that we lost to cancer. Wife thought she was ugliest dog in the world haha I thought she was the best.
I use tweezers with diamond dust files epoxied to ends for feeding. Keeps teeth in great condition. Easy to mix general cure with clam, krill etc for internal worms/parasites. No such thing as an ugly puffer. That’s like saying there’s such thing as an ugly bulldog.
Maybe I'll try and rig up some sort of file thing, I stick feed mine frequently. He bit a chunk out of my pinky finger that was dangling in the tank, so I wouldn't dare hand feed him.
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Mine had radiation in April for brain tumor. Prognosis was 18 months best case. He turned 9 in July. Hopefully he makes it through next summer. He replaced a sharpi we lost to cancer. If you plan of feeding with GC https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/metronidazole.298762/#post-3655831
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