Puffer Engineering

Info from the Marine Center: www.marinecenter.com Frequently available, this is a great aquarium fish that is well suited for the home aquarium because it stays relatively small for a puffer. It is also generally not aggressive. It can be kept with other members of the genus and more than one individual can even be kept in a larger tank if they are added at the same time. It is a rather shy fish when first added to the aquarium, therefore, you will need to provide appropriate shelter for it to hide in. With time, it will spend more time in the open becoming a great aquarium fish. Once it is fully adjusted to the aquarium it is a hardy fish that can do great in a community tank with bold fishes such as triggers, groupers and wrasse.

Scientific Name: Arothron tank size nigropunctatusMinimum: 90 gallonsCharacteristics: A semi-aggressive fish from the Solomon Islands and Indo-Pacific. Able to grow at about a foot long. Dogface pufferfish, like many other big fish have a unique personality and very interesting. They often swim to welcome you and splashing water with its tail, so you know they will be fed, and the boys have to eat these fish! Dogface pufferfish parents enjoy food shrimps and mussels, squid and krill. (Answer to a personal note: My Dogface maintains close squid go, but he loves all the other foods mentioned!) Since Dogface pufferfish are not usually very shy, you can try to feed the hand that a few weeks after they have become accustomed to their new home. I want to keep my fingers with krill and let the fish eat krill Ball, krill, he seems to enjoy more if I do that. If I just throw the krill in the tank, he loses interest. Also, be careful never to close in on the fingers is my Dogface quite capable of cracking shells thick and I do not want my finger accidentally with food! Dogface cronies are classified as carnivores, but my chows down broccoli for my Blue Tang determined. You’ll really eat almost anything put in front of them! Make sure to feed them hard-shelled foods such as meat fish balls to wear their beaks growing demand. The Dogface Puffer is semi-aggressive and should not be at the other pumps, seahorses, sharks, rays, housed, and invertebrates. Scarlet Skunk Cleaner shrimp cleaner shrimp as may meet with the ball fine fish to their natural role of cleaning fish balls. While the Dogface Puffer is not particularly difficult to maintain, you should have some experience with saltwater fish before you. The most frequent causes parents Dogface puffer fish do not eat, to water conditions or the fact that they are a recent addition to the aquarium. As some puffers will not eat, it is strongly recommended that you see in the store eating pet before you buy with your pump. Dogface pufferfish are not recommended for reef aquariums, if you have an extremely wide configuration. This is due to the fact that most of all eat crustaceans, invertebrates, and anything that is not sand. It is not recommended to keep an anemone itself in the same reservoir of buffer since Dogface pufferfish are very curious and can end up hurting themselves more than once tried to eat the anemones. Shop over 5,000 aquarium supplies discount at http://www. redclownfish. com /