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Posted: July 27 2004 at 3:14pm |
 Isn't he cool! Just thought I would share with everyone.
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 3:32pm |
That is a cool fish... Not reef safe though,,,,, right??? I am thinking about getting a little puffer like Jason & Richard... Suzy has a really cool little puffer too.....but I dont think hers is reef safe..
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I have flying monkeys and I'm not afraid to use them.
180 gallon money pit that I love.....
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 4:18pm |
Is he unsafe because he is a piglet and knocks everything over? If Rob
throws a chunk of frozen BS in the tank, Sonic takes the whole thing,
swallows it frozen and then his whole body bulges! He's just one big
stomach! Think he gets an ice cream headache?
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 4:54pm |
Suzy- you are such a crack up.  How does Rob not get stomach cramps from being around you? Who knows- maybe he does!
Puffers are all  s. I think they would eat themselves sick every feeding if possible. I think I hear a future piscine paper from the resident-president, marine biologist on
"Corollarys in Feeding Response and Abdominable Elasticity."
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 4:55pm |
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But Puffers sure do have a lot of personality. They are just plain fun to watch and play with.
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 5:13pm |
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Is that why Rob always has stomach cramps? I just thought it was gas!
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 5:35pm |
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Check out the eyes on Suzy's... That is not the camera.. They really look like that... Neat little fish...
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 5:36pm |
 Suzy wrote:
Is that why Rob always has stomach cramps? I just thought it was gas! |
If it was gas- well this would be a good place to insert a poem from Adam's strange Cosomos site
"A fart can be quiet,
A fart can be loud,
Some leave a powerful,
Poisonous cloud.
A fart can be short,
Or a fart can be long,
Some farts have been known
To sound just like a song.
Some farts do not smell,
While others are vile,
A fart may pass quickly,
Or linger awhile.
A fart can create
A most-curious medley,
A fart can be harmless,
Or silent, but deadly.
A fart can occur
In a number of places,
And leave everyone
With strange looks on their faces.
From wide-open prairies,
To small elevators,
A fart will find all of us
Sooner or later.
So be not afraid
Of the invisible gas,
For always remember,
That farts, too, shall pass."
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 7:17pm |
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 8:45pm |
I too have a puffer.... right in there in my reef tank! Looks just like Suzy's puffer.
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 8:55pm |
Nice fish. Has anyone ever seen a saddle valentini in any LFS?
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 8:57pm |
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Actually I saw a valentini at Marine Aquatics tonight.
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Posted: July 27 2004 at 9:07pm |
Adam Blundell wrote:
I too have a puffer.... right in there in my reef tank! Looks just like Suzy's puffer.
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So,,, they are reef safe?
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: July 28 2004 at 8:53am |
Hmmm, I don't want to cause controversy (with Jake). I'll say, sure they're reef safe. I haven't had a problem with mine.
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Posted: July 28 2004 at 10:11am |
rstruhs wrote:
So,,, they are reef safe?
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I will have to agree and disagree with Adam.
Some people (including Adam) will call them reef safe because they will usually leave your corals alone. In this regards lionfish could also be consider reef safe.
Most people consider most puffers (and lionfish) to not be reef safe, because they will eat many small inverts (including crabs, shrimp, etc.). They can also attack and eat small fish (depending on their size).
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Posted: July 28 2004 at 10:25am |
Jake's answer is better than mine.
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Posted: July 29 2004 at 9:30am |
 I agree with everyone.
They do look cool. I loved my dwarf lion. Reef Tour guests always enjoyed the Lionfish and my school of live-in Sea Base Mollies/lion food
As long as my other fish were large enough, (Volitans are easy to catch when they get too large) the reef was an ideal place and indeed it's the natural home for Lionfish, I'm not sure about puffers. Where are they found in the wild?
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Posted: July 29 2004 at 11:12am |
Mark Peterson wrote:
I'm not sure about puffers. Where are they found in the wild? |
I caught a few of them earlier this year in about 15 feet of water... right off the shore. Exactly like the one posted here.
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Posted: July 29 2004 at 12:30pm |
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I've never had a Puffer, only seen them in others tanks. So Puffers are kind of scavangers/grazers, right? They aren't fast enough to catch anything healthy swimming by. Do they find pieces of dead fish and other organic matter floating by and chew sponge, coral, and maybe a little algae from the rock. Am I on target here?
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Posted: July 29 2004 at 12:33pm |
I acclimated a figure eight puffer over to full saltwater, and he is currently residing in my mom's tank. He is a menace to her snails. She had a ton of stomatella snails and after day 1 they had all been eaten by the puffer. I think that your inverts are more in trouble than your coral are when you start talking puffers.
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