IS THIS STUPID OR WHAT

[StephenA]

That's why I setup a new tank this weekend was for a puffer.

[don-n-sa]

No that is not stupid at all...puffers are amazing creatures, I almost sense some sort of intelligence with them, kind of like a dog. I actually have a puffer in my "reef" with no major problems.

[StephenA]

What kind of puffer is in your reef?

[dan]

you could do a large fuge for your main tank and put the puffer in the fuge. the bests of both worlds.

[Thunderkat]

Sounds like an easy choice, if your not happy why do it?

With the corals there you will have an easy time intoducing the new fish.

Get good pics of it munching :)

[don-n-sa]

What kind of puffer is in your reef?

I have a Porcipine Puffer...I think that I have had success because I got him when he was only an inch and it has been fed very well from the start.

here are some pics

[StephenA]

That's like the puffer I'm getting. I was worried he'd eat shrimp, crabs, snails, coral, etc.

[don-n-sa]

Yeah...I have to replinish my clean up crew every 3-4 months, but it is not all the puffer. My flame hawk loves to knock off snails from the glass and eat them. My hermits somehow end up in the snail shells. <_<

I was successful with a cleaner shrimp for about a month...it was so neat watching it clean the inside of the Snowflake moray , puffer and triggers mouths. I missed a feeding for a day and the cleaner dissapeared...not sure who got him. :unsure

[Tim Marvin]

Yes, you have brain damage.

[Tim Marvin]

The one good thing is you won't have to constantly worry about if your lights are replaced routinely. It sure would make things a lot easier.

[Polkster13]

Why not just set up another smaller tank (say around 40 gallons) to keep the puffer in.

[StephenA]

Why not just set up another smaller tank (say around 40 gallons) to keep the puffer in.

40 is to small. I'm pushing by keeping on in a 75.

[Polkster13]

Wow, that is one big fish. Do you have a swimming pool? :skeezy :innocent

[Thunderkat]

I don't want the corals to be eaten as there a living thing as well

Every fish,animal, person, and even plants kill to stay alive. You can't live if you don't eat something living or was once alive. Even vegetarians kill things, even plants are living creatures. Yeah, the corals are alive but thats what the puffers eat in the wild (that and whatever else they can scrape off of things). If you were killing them for fun that would be bad, but the puffer is just eating :)

If you can find somebody to take them from you thats even better but if you can't, life goes on and puffers eat.

Cyano is alive but I have been working hard to kill as much of it as I can hehehe.

Ok, everybody start flaming me now lol.

[Tim Marvin]

I was thinking the same thing... Let the puffer eat and save whatever lives...

[GaryP]

Why not just set up another smaller tank (say around 40 gallons) to keep the puffer in.

Yea, we're all real good at finding a good reason to set up another tank or a bigger one.

[Polkster13]

Worked for me. I was up to 33 aquariums and two ponds before I had to move back to Texas.

[Thunderkat]

We demand pics of the puffer :)