thomas combs - 2008-09-22
I have two gsp. I first put them in a tank with mollies and dwarf gouramis, they killed a gourami and nipped the fins of a mollie. Well I put them in a tank with a red devil, 4 oscars, pacu, red tailed cat, pleco, and jacks. An oscar tried to eat one puffer and quickly spit him back out. Well they proceeded to terrorize my cat, then ended up killing a 5 inch oscar, and nipped everybodies fins except the pleco, so I put them in their own tank with 2 figure 8 puffers and they are happy. I feed snails, clams, and krill and just so they have something to do I give them 30 guppies at a time. Inch for inch. gsp are some bad a?? fish.

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john green - 2008-09-21
I bought a puffer 3 weeks ago and it wasn't eating anything, so I bought another one and it started eating. Now they're both eating and I would like to breed them. So if you have bred them please email me at greensta6099025@yahoo.com

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Brandi - 2008-09-16
I just purchased my puffer yesterday. Awesome fish and he seens to be doing really well. He is just a baby right now and I have a lot of other semi aggressive fish with a lot of hiding places in my 55 gal tank. So far so good. He instantly started playing in the bubbles, very fun to watch. He hasn't shown much aggression to any of my other fish yet, maybe because he is so small. I hope it will stay that way. I just love him. after reading the story about the guy who had to trim his puffers teeth with a cutical cutter (that would be hard to do!), I will be feeding mine snails real soon! He is just the cutest little thing.

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jesse - 2008-09-05
I have had a Fahaka for 7 months now. When I got her she was only 1.5 inches, now she is 13 inches. I now have her in a 145 gallon tank. I cannot find any tank mates she won't eat or kill. She is a very picky eater, the only thing I can get her to eat is crayfish and frozen whole shrimp. Very interesting fish though.

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Crystal Smith - 2008-04-09
GSP are born as fry up in freshwater and move quickly into estuaries and ocean. They cannot live in freshwater and a 20 gallon tank per fish is not enough. They require atleast 30 per fish, minimum, 40-50 is best. People who keep 2 or 3 or 4 GSP in a ten gallon tank, your wasting your time. They pollute water too quick and get bigger than a 10 gallon is long back to front almost! Puffers in general require 50% weekly water changes in a tank suitable for their size, but when you put 3 GSP in a 10 gallon tank, be expecting every 6 hour water changes to keep the water clean. Now, do not get me wrong, Puffers are my forte in aquarium keeping, however if you want a good puff that won't cost you a 50 gallon tank and your bank, I would recommend Red eye puffs, Dwarf puffs or South American Puffs. If I can get this link in, this site is dedicated to puffs, and most of them have been taking care of puffs for 10-30 years.

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crystal - 2008-04-09
Fahakas are one fish that 99% of the bunch are extremely aggressive. Occasionally there's the one that will stay unaggressive. Now, I do not want to disuade anyone from getting one of these if they truely want one, but do NOT expect that if you have a fahaka in a community tank now, that it will stay with that temperment. Fahakas get more aggressive as they get older. Also, Fahakas cannot be housed in a 30-40 gallon tank. Way ungodly too small. They get a foot long for pete's sake! They would barely be able to even turn around in a tank that size. Absolute minimum for Fahakas are 120 gallons.

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crystal - 2008-04-09
SAP's are one pufferfish that no matter what you do, their teeth eventually get too long. I have fed mine snails daily since the day I got them and still every 6 months or so, I still have to trim teeth. Very personable. One of the few "schooling" puffers that enjoy being in groups of 4-7.

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jeff - 2008-04-04
I have a 120 Gal Cichlid tank and just added a green spotted puffer fish. He became weak after being sucked into a power head. While momentarily weakened my largest and oldest Cichlid took a small bite out of him. Ten minutes later my Cichlid was dead. Needless to say, I am not impressed with the Puffer Fish.

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ginaaassssppppaaaarrrkkkkkkk - 2008-03-19
I have two gspufferfish that I recently purchased. I have always had bettas up until I fell in love with the two little guys at the store. Don't get me wrong, bettas are very intriguing personality oriented creatures. I actually found the bettas a rather difficult breed to take care of though. My puffers are much simpler, and their charming characteristics you can hardly compare to any other fish. They go to sleep at night. Mine curl up in little balls and hide their eyes in a dark area :)zzz and as soon as you see them in the morning they want to eat. They have a routine, it's so cute. They tend to not enjoy sudden movements or taping on the glass sides. That tends to scare the pee out of them :P Don't give a fish ever what it doesn't get in nature. Please people, the plastic plants, lets get serious here. The fish are real... do you sleep on a plastic bed? Turn off their lights at night... where does the sun shine 24 hrs? Puffers are Awesome, that's it.

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Andrew - 2008-03-18
I have four baby gsp's in a ten gallon tank with a couple cray fish to eat the dead remains of their food. I am extremely busy and don't find time to make it to the pet store as often as I'd like so I keep about twenty feeder guppies in their tank with them so they can eat whenever they are hungry. They don't have a problem catching them, but after the tank gets down to about ten fish they stop eating them and I am forced to feed them sinking shrimp pellets and flakes. I wonder if it is a bad idea to keep a stock of feeders in with them.

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