shih-tzu mom

Has, anyone ever heard of it and if so,doe's anyone have a pic-as i saw some at LFS and not sure of what kind they are. I was told amazon puffer-but to me it looks like a dwarf or green spooted little baby. thanks in advance, they are about 1/4 of an inch long with dark spots on them bella

FishKing

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fres...azonPuffer.php This is a great site about this fish.

shih-tzu mom

Fishking, thanks very much for the link-lot's of info thank you again bella

pinkfloydpuffer

The Amazon puffers are very cute, but they are not for a beginner puffer keeper. Their teeth grow so rapidly that even with a diet of snails every single day they will still need to have their teeth manually clipped usually about 1-3 times a year.

Red1313

... strange question... what keeps them down in the wild then?

pinkfloydpuffer

All I can figure is that they are chewing on snails all day long lol

shih-tzu mom

Pink; i did read that as well that they need their teeth trimmed 1-3-times a year, but the guy at the lfs is trying to tell me these puffer's were amazon and from the pic's i have seen they look like your's lol p.s. also said they were dwarf and i believe they get as big as your's not sure as they are very tiny lol bella

Red1313

hmmm... Calculating my current snail over population I could probably give them that. Without my effort my one ten gal alone is so over populated with snails I only drop food in a couple times a week. Red seems to ignore most of it anyway. Maybe a harder shelled variety of snails as well...

pinkfloydpuffer

The Amazon puffer doesn't have spots, it has stripes, as you can see from the picture in the link fishking gave you. So I'd probably bet they're not Amazons.
Maybe they're just dwarf puffers? Sometimes they're called Indian Dwarf puffers...

shih-tzu mom

Yeah, Pink i kind of think so-Don't these people know anything about Puff's lol and try to sell you something and think that it is alright, to tell you when i don't think they really know bella

pinkfloydpuffer

I think the best thing to do is to do tons of your own research and not listen to a thing that the people at the store say.

Jess

I'm with you Pink.