While browsing at The Tropical Fish Shoppe last Friday, I came across a tank filled with adorable Green Spotted Puffers.
Jeff and I had originally considered getting green spotted puffers when we decided to get a puffer, so I was already familiar with their care requirements.
I’d just decided that I didn’t want any Shell dwellers, so I had a fish tank open, with no prospects.
We ended up getting two green spotted puffers, Spot, and Stripe.
I recently read that most dogs are now named “people” names, and the old fashioned names like Spot and Rover aren’t used any more, so I thought it would be funny to name one of the fish Spot.
Besides, they do say puffers are the dogs of the fish world.
Rover just didn’t seem like a good name for a fish, and Stripe has a little line of connected dots along his right side, so Stripe seemed like a good name.
I do keep calling him Spike (Spike is our male adult bushynose pleco), so we might have to change Stripe’s name.
Spot and Stripe are doing very well in their new home, although we are going to have to get some more plants to break up the line of sight so they don’t see each other as much.
Spot tends to chase stripe around, but we haven’t seen any evidence of biting yet.
Biting ususally causes black bruises where the puffer was bitten.
The day after we got the puffers home, Jeff decided he should hold some krill in the tank and wave it around to see if the puffers would eat it.
Spot wouldn’t come near it, but Stripe came out of nowhere to get the krill.
You should have seen how fast Jeff dropped it!
Now both of the Green Spotted Puffers will eat out of Jeff’s hands, although he is careful, since the puffer’s teeth could wound him.
Our Figure 8 puffer, 8-ball doesn’t eat out of Jeff’s hands yet, so Jeff is happy that the Green Spotted Puffers Do :-).
The picture above is a picture of Spot a couple of days after we got him. Isn’t he cute?
Do you have puffers?
What kind, how many, what are their names?
Leave a comment and tell us about them!
April 25th, 2008 - 8:41 am
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