pinkfloydpuffer

My GSP Garth playing with his food. And of course Pistachio wants in on the fun...

Lucy

That was seriously cute. lol

COBettaCouple

We have got to get some GSPs!

pinkfloydpuffer

DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

COBettaCouple

How about if you bring one over and trade him for a tank full of Ramshorns?

pinkfloydpuffer

Deal! But it won't be Stashy or Garth, lol.

Jess

Very cool video. Like he's dancing around his food. Trying to find the best approach. : )

Martinismommy

He is sooooooooooooo adorable! Are those little guys hard to keep?

MinxMermaid

SUPER CUTE!!!

but now i have a ton of questions.....

1. did you slow that video down? mine swim a thousand miles an hour!

2. do you feed them snails as part of their diet? i only feed mine bloodworms.

3. how the heck to do tell them apart? for their names? we have like 5 or 6 i think and they all look the SAME to me.

3. what other fish do you have in there? i thought puffers had to be kept on their own. we only have puffers in our puffer tank.

i know....i'm a DORK but teach me oh PUFFER QUEEN EXPERT!!!

macroman

Cool vid of a great looking puffer!

pinkfloydpuffer

Thanks everyone!

I dont' think they're hard at all. Just give them the brackish water they need and a proper diet, and that's all

1. Mine swim really fast when I try to take pictures! lol. make little spotted streaks on the film... Garth was just slowing down to take a good look at that snail If you saw the part where Pistachio comes in, that shows them swimming a ton faster!
2. They need the snails to grind down their teeth. They're like rabbits, their teeth are constantly growing. If they don't have something to grind them down, then eventually they won't be able to eat cause their teeth will grow too long.
3. I have mine with mollies. I really got them just to cycle the tank. It was a long time ago (before I joined Fishlore) and I couldn't for the life of me find any ammonia w/o surfactants. They get along alright, just with nipped fins here and there. However, when one of my mollies got his swim bladder injured by another, I found Pistachio devouring him a few days later. Ideally puffers should be kept on their own. In fact, I'm trying to get someone to adopt my mollies right now. If my puffs get any bigger the mollies will just be lunch. I prefer to keep puffers alone. In fact most puffer tanks I'm planning on getting will only have a single specimen.

Haha, so now I'm the queen of puffers? I like the sound of that...

Speedy

Hey Pinkfloydpuffer
I love your puffers I think they are so cute. I have never kept any but someday I think I will. I saw one a wal-mart today and it brought tears to my eyes. He looked so bad. His little body was all sunk in and curved a little poor thing was still swimming around though don't know how he was still alive. I wish they would stop wal-mart from selling fish.

pinkfloydpuffer

Hey speedy!
Thanks, i love them!
Yeah, they have them at my walmart too, and everytime I go there I have to go see them, even though it makes me wanna cry. They are ALL riddled with internal parasites, and the freshwater they're keeping them in doesn't help things at all.

MissMTS

Pink, your puffers are adorable! You are seriously making me want to convert my spare 29 gallon into a puffer tank!

shellbell4ever

Thanks for sharing your video It was so cute,They really are cool fish
Maybe a puffer tank in my future,How big of a tank would the need?

pinkfloydpuffer

Thanks! I highly recommend them

Thanks. It depends on the kind of puffer. The ones I have will need 30 gals per puffer.

Speedy

I went today and the little puffer had died. I wished I could have rescued the little guy he looked so pitiful. At least this time they had little feeder shells in almost every tank. But I still wish something would be done about it and stop them from selling fish. Sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose to guilt you into buying there fish....SO SO Sad.....

pinkfloydpuffer

Oh, that is so sad. Poor puffy.
I wish I could rescue them all too, but it's too late for 99% of them already. And I won't buy fish from walmart cause I don't want to support them dealing in fish. Especially not my puffy babies!
RIP little walmart puffer