Other Fish Photos

[MaisyDawgThirteen]

Killifish! Silly autocorrect. Lol

[Dogstar64]

Meet the Puffers!

Cheeky Pete


Little Paul


Little Charlie


Community tank photos to follow...

[Kithy]

Originally Posted by Dogstar64

Meet the Puffers!

Cheeky Pete


Little Paul


Little Charlie


Community tank photos to follow...

<3 Puffers!! My friend has a GSP that is adorable.

[Dogstar64]

Yep 3!! They get along great and have such different personalities e.g. Little Charlie is very wary of me and not too keen to interact (though he's still very nosy when he thinks I'm not looking) whereas Little Paul is always interested in some attention. Pete is another thing altogether, he's always watching me and goes around the tank in a grump if he feels he's being ignored!

[MistersMom]

Originally Posted by copperarabian

I was pretty young and had no idea what I was doing so not too many survived. I gave some away and kept two. Malina's brother who had gold eyes died at around 4", I didn't know a lot about fish and didn't do nearly enough water changes unfortunately. I've learned so much from this forum, When I joined I was keeping my king betta with Malina and only used distilled water D:

I miss having cichlids, maybe one day when I can afford a bigger tank I'll have them again :) I'd love to do a huge amazon biotype tank
I'd like a tank similar to this where it looks like roots


or if I become filthy rich lol




I finally got a decent photo of my Paradise fish flaring his gill covers, second photo he's flaring his pretty fins.

So are they like betta fish? Like, aggressiveness and etc

[Dogstar64]

It depends very much on which variety you get. Green spotted puffers (GSP) like my 3 are not too bad but really shouldn't be kept with other fish which is why mine are in a species specific tank. Obviously each fish has their own personality too.

i should point out that in the puffer tank I have two rummy nosed tetras. I did a big tank swap round a few months ago as I felt that the puffers needed the slightly larger aquarium as their bioload is high (messy so-and-so's) I took all the community fish out of tank one except for these 2 tetras who simply refused to be caught. I then put the puffers in tank one and put the community into tank two.

I spent a further hour trying to catch the two remaining tetra but to no avail. I fully expected the puffers to kill them by the next morning but here we are 3 months later and they are living happily together. I believe that this is due to the tetras being in situ when I introduced the puffers so the puffers simply accept that they are part of the tank. I wouldn't dream of introducing small fish into their tank now as I'm absolutely positive the puffers would despatch them pretty sharpish!

[MistersMom]

Lol, who are you talking to?

[Dogstar64]

I was talking to you! I guess you weren't talking to me then? LOL

[MistersMom]

Oh no, i was talking to the person that i quoted lmao. But since were on the topic, are those puffer fish salt water?

[Dogstar64]

Originally Posted by MistersMom

Oh no, i was talking to the person that i quoted lmao. But since were on the topic, are those puffer fish salt water?

Sorry about that, it's quite obvious when I look back! Duh!!

Anyway, puffers... They start off being freshwater but as they grow older they become brackish and then salt water. Apparently the fry are 'born' in rivers and then migrate to the ocean.