I want more dwarf puffers

Posted by Sarah on October 6, 2008

I miss my dwarf puffers, and I want some more, but since we’ve had so many bad experiences with puffers, I’m kind of scared to get more.

None of the local stores carry them though, so it’s probably not going to happen for a while.

It’s funny, someone was over yesterday, and we were showing off 8-Ball, our figure eight puffer, and our visitor asked asked if puffers were hard to take care of.

Jeff and I immediately said no – the only trouble we’ve had with 8-Ball was him jumping out of a cup we were using to transport him to his new tank.

Fortunately he didn’t puff up, and didn’t experience any health problems after that little escapade.

We feed him some freeze dried krill, snails, and an occasional ghost shrimp, and we don’t have any problems with him.

Of course after a second we remembered all the puffers we’d lost 3 dwarf puffers and two green spotted puffers.

Taking care of puffers isn’t the hard part – it’s getting ones that actually survive so that you can take care of them.

If you’ve had puffers where did you get them – and how long did they survive?