A look at the Mbu Puffer: the largest freshwater puffer fish and one with a lot of personality. Video captures the Mbu Puffer in an aquarium environment and details the basics on captive conditions, care and diet for any aquarist looking to add one to their tank. A great informational video for anyone new to large freshwater aquarium keeping brought to you by the marine biologists at That Fish Place/That Pet Place.
hey for my tank i have parrots, ocscars, cichlids,convicts(with at least 100 babies) jack dempsies and goldfish. should i get a mbu puffer for the tank because my aquarium is 200 gallons. so should i?
i had a figure 8 puffer, it nipped most of all the other fish, bad bad
pet_health_expert
I bought one about a month agao from them …he is doing perfect they where really careful about shipping in cold weather and packed him perfectly great fish our favorite of all…
damn that MBu looks very skinny… they need to feed him better
just wanna ask what fishes is ok to pair with your puffer fish? mine has parrots knife fish bala and rainbow sharks hammerhead sharks green terror convict all are still babies execp the bala shark and parrots.. what can you recommend plz
they don’t grow that large very quickly.. I had my MBU for 4 yrs , and he was a foot long, kept him with other large fish till he was 2 !! he never ate fish, just snails , worms and river shrimp ( 28 in one go!) all other fish are a bit boring after you’ve had a mbu, they really do have their own little character!
The puffer in the video is alive and well a year after the video was shot, and is in no way starved or mistreated. The Mbu is in a display in our store, and is given all the attention that it needs, and is fed a varied diet of shrimp, fish, and snails. The video reccomends a minimum size tank of 150 gallons, but also states that a larger aquarium would be better given the adult size of the fish. Thank you for your concerns
that mbu looks very under cared for and will prolly die if continuesly staved like that they grow very large and i should know ive got a 30 inch speciman in 1000 gal. system hes always hungery its been five years and he was about 3 inches when i got him (not sure what sex it actually is) but these are special animals and i feel bad for the poor puff in this video that is obviously being mistreated petplace you should be ashamed of yourselves ….
more like 600
God, they get huge! You never think of puffers as big fish.
aww! look at the cute buck teeth it has!! lol
Minimum tank size of 150 gallons… jesus.
They are freshwater puffers.
fresh water??? i though they were salt water onces….
once again……for those with VERY LITTLE KNOWEDGE of puffers, the are not “starving” in the videos, that is what they look like normally. the only time they puff up is when they are scared or pissed off!
OK…….for all you idiots who are obviously ignorant to the knowledge of a MBU PUFFER, everything the “BITCH” (as someone called her) is CORRECT!!!! yes, some puffers are poisonous, however, the mbu puffer IS NOT. i would know, i own one! so i guess ol oddwheel needs to do some more research himself!! DING DONG!! oh yes…..the reason you would get sick if you were to eat one as soup or however it was prepared, that is because it was not prepared or cooked properly!!!!!
Wow, nice video!
LOL ….. ding dong ….
I haven’t heard that in a long time
Except for the part where they’re NOT poisonous.
Do some research, ding dong.
i suggest for the novice fish buyer to turn your take to about 7.5ph and 1.4 salentity and temp about 78 and get you some cichilids the mbu is a hard fish to take care of and if you dont want to have him die after 4 or 5 mouths get the cichilids their not to hard to take care of and they are cool fish get the peacocks so when they get about 6inches their colors really come out do not get them if you have a take under 50gallons. they alway need 5g per fish because they are territorial
they like sand more then rocks hence south america and africa where they are from
No, it’s not. That’s a very healthy fish. Granted, he’s a bit bored, and needs more decor to play around in, but he’s in perfect condition.
They need more like 1,000g.
if you really know puffer fish his stomache is perfectly shaped and he is clearly a healthy fish signed a person who owns 12 fish tanks 1 pond and 17 breeding lizards 9 frogs and 8 turtles
How skinny he is!! :O