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Tank raised pygmy puffer needs a home!

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I finally made some progress collecting a few eggs from my group of pygmy puffers.

Of the 3 that hatched, one is still going strong. I had problems getting a good infusoria culture started at the time as a first food - so in desperation I put the surviving fry in my red cherry breeding tank! This particular tank is also overrun with small seed shrimp and cyclops - which seem to have done the trick:)

The individual is about 4 weeks post hatching and still only around 6-7mm long. Unfortunately it is starting to take an interest in the smallest shrimplets and I just don't have a suitable tank to move it to.

Anyone interested?

Too small to move just yet and I'd like to get it feeding on bloodworm before it goes - but i'm guessing another 3-4 weeks?

Free to a good home - collection from New Malden, South West London.

Can post some photos if anyone is interested.

Thanks, Mark

P.s. I'm fairly sure this is Carinotetraodon imitator and not C. travancoricus - based on the colouration of the males and patterning on the females.

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Here is a breeding journal from a Dutch Puffer forum with pics if you are intrested.. If you read Bullet, thats puffer, we call it Bulletfish. (Kogel - Boule) :)
https://translate.google.nl/transla...y=Carinotetraodon+imitator&edit-text=&act=url

Those Malabars i've never seen in the trade, unfortunately, or maybe fortunately dunno, in the lfs 99% is wild origine. These seem to be very peacefull compaired to the travancoricus. The travancoricus i had where little violent hooligans not suitable for a community tank.
 
Alex J said:
Just wanted to say Congratulations on breeding the puffer's

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Thanks - though I think the only tricky bit is collecting the eggs. The puffers are happy enough producing them!

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kadoxu said:
Just give me a heads up and I'll pick it up whenever you think it's big enough. I just want the pics of the adults to see if I can help you identify the puffer's sp. ;)
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Sorry - got distracted. Will sort later.

Mark

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How adorable they are!.. One day i definitively have them again in a tank only for them.. :) But they realy need a special user manual, the are much to shortly described where ever you look. They are highly sensitive creatures with a very big personality.. My last one i wanted to keep, i had to move him to another tank because he was attacking and chasing all other fish, driving all mad. In the new tank he became depressed, not showing anymore just hiding and laying silently in the plants was even hard to find him in there. Before in the other tank he grew up in, he always came looking instead when i approched the tank.. He killed himself by jumping out. Found him dead and dry on the floor one morning. And the tank was absolutely mature and excact same water and all. It realy gutted me and felt mean and stuppid for weeks. He never even came close to the surface in the other tank. N idea what triggered him to jump.. :(. Nothing strange in the tank but him and cherries and lots of plants he always knew. Except the others, nothing to hunt around.

@kadoxu pleace take care of this little beauty, it's not a species to drag around.. It's seems they also attach to a established territory once matured or something.
 
markk said:
Puffer porn...
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:lol:

They look amazing! I agree with you on the sp. - they have too many tiny dots on them to be the common Dwarf Puffer.


zozo said:
@kadoxu pleace take care of this little beauty, it's not a species to drag around.. It's seems they also attach to a established territory once matured or something.
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I'll do my best! I still have a couple of weeks to get everything ready! ;)
 
kadoxu said:
How's the little guy doing?
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Photo from Thursday night (took it and then completely forgot to post it!).

He/she coming along slowly. I'd guess around 12mm total length.

Always seems to have a full belly but continues to frustrate me on the bloodworm front. Will happily demolish a live mosquito larvae 2/3 of its size but won't touch a dead bloodworm! Likewise is really picky about daphnia - anything adult size is ignored, as is anything too fast.

Also has a younger sibling now...

I'm happy for you to pick up anytime that suits now - if you're happy you have some livefoods sorted.

Just tell me what you need on the snail/shrimp/grindal worm front. Overrun with everything at the moment.

Regards, Mark
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