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 Puffer lifespans |
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| Norbert |
 Feb 3 2010, 09:34 PM
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it's all in the reflexes
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Just wondering how old these guys live...obviously different from species to species...any stories out there?
5, 10...20 years?
Jack Burton "And you'll go off to rule the universe from beyond the grave?" Lo Pan "Indeed!" My "someday" fish....Heterotis niloticus |
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| Norbert |
Feb 4 2010, 09:20 PM
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it's all in the reflexes
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Not all of us have giant Dorado that eat our other fish  I'll never sell my puffer...so short of me making a dumbass mistake...what do you "think" on lifespan? Anybody have a 10 year old puffer?
Jack Burton "And you'll go off to rule the universe from beyond the grave?" Lo Pan "Indeed!" My "someday" fish....Heterotis niloticus |
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| Norbert |
Feb 5 2010, 04:43 PM
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it's all in the reflexes
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QUOTE(Triggeraa @ Feb 4 2010, 08:34 PM) 
Hobbyist report life spans from 10 to 15 yrs.
Cool, I think I picked mine up in the fall of 2007...probably a year old when I got it (4-5")...sounds like it's still a youngster.
Jack Burton "And you'll go off to rule the universe from beyond the grave?" Lo Pan "Indeed!" My "someday" fish....Heterotis niloticus |
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| Coolbre78 |
Feb 24 2010, 03:40 PM
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Newbie
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I just brought 2 Green Spotted Puffers & I just added them with some Exodon Paradoxus, anyone know how that will work out?
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| Coolbre78 |
Mar 1 2010, 10:11 PM
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QUOTE(Triggeraa @ Feb 4 2010, 11:20 AM) Puffers will live for a long as there is no bad water change, power outage, predation, poisoning ect. Very few people keep any fish to see it pass from old age. I hear a lot of talk about brackish water for puffers, have anyone ever had a green spotted puffer live in freshwater with no problems with good water changes? |
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| NARC |
Mar 3 2010, 06:49 AM
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too vulgar for jesse
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does that combo work because the puffers are scaleless? i've seen those puffers and mollys in full salt around here, too. they cycle tanks with them now as they are cheaper than damsels, which used to be what they'd throw in as their cycle testers.
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They will be going in a salt tank soon enough. GSP will eventually need some salt in their water. 
