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04-28-2009, 04:15 PM
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When you get a puffer make sure he is with you for quite some time prior to adding any smaller fish. My biggest mistake with Griff was adding him to my tank with two false percula clowns. He is a mature fish that spent his life in the ocean and was an opportunistic hunter... he ate the clownfish in a couple of weeks of him being home. I added the chromis and the scooter blennies awhile back and he ignores the chromis, and the scooters live on the bottom where he really has no interest in going. They also see him coming and take off.
With Griff it was trail and error and he is a really big puffer. I have never seen one for sale the same size that he is. Everybody has had different experiences with their puffers and bringing Griff home has been a challenge. People are blown away by the fact that he has not touched any of my shrimp, and hangs out with a fire shrimp. I will never get any small clownfish since the colour and movement of the species is much like a fishing lure when you think about it. He is a glutton of all gluttons and when I hand feed my large cowfish, I have to have both hands in the tank. One to feed to the cowfish, and the other to bock Griffie from coming and eating the cowfish food. He is a beggar and will press his eyeballs and half of his face against the glass to get my attention. I was told puffers need to eat every 2-3 days but I feed mine twice a day. If he is well fed, I have no problems. My guy is huge and I am not sure the smaller ones will be easier to accustom to tank life or not. I think it is a lot of trail and error, but he pays no attention to any of the otehr fish in the tank and vice versa... Quote:
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I sure do love the comical erxpressions and personality of others puffers that I have seen.
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