I would like to breed mail and female green spotted puffer but it seems that i had meet up the problem to differentiate it. HOpe you guys can help on it, thanks a lot.
2006-11-12 16:30:56 · 7 answers · asked by EricOye 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
You do know that they are brackish water fish, don't you. Until they have a brackish environment, there is no hope of any spawning.
I don't know if puffers are commercially spawned or collected in the wild. I have never heard of anyone spawning them in an aquarium. Getting them into condition would be the first step, after getting the water right.
Brackish water is around 1.012 on the salinity scale. Sea water is 1.025 and fresh is 1.000. Use sea salt from the pet store, it has the necessary minerals and vitamins in it for them.
One of the most difficult aspects of keeping these fish is their diet. All puffers are predatory fish and need hard-shelled, meaty foods to keep their teeth trimmed. Like rabbits, their teeth grow constantly and can overgrow enough to cause starvation in the fish.
Puffers eat crustaceans in the wild. Foods for smaller puffers are frozen/freeze-dried krill/plankton, gut-loaded ghost shrimp, glass worms, crickets, worms and small snails (the size of their eye). Snails are an essential food to a puffer's diet, especially when small. Many serious puffer keepers breed their own snails.
As your puffers get larger, there are many more crunchy foods for them to eat. Larger GSPs will eat cut-up pieces of scallops, shrimp, crab legs, whole mussels, clams, oysters, squid, lobster and crayfish.
2006-11-13 05:29:49 · answer #1 · answered by 8 In the corner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sexing is difficult as there is no visible differences between male and female fish. Breeding green spotted puffers is very rare.
2006-11-12 16:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by Vetala 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 gallons is sweet for one million betta. green observed puffers require a greater tank (30 ish with flowers) reason they'll improve. Coincidently, I went to walmart in right this moment and that that they had like 8 observed puffer fish in one little freshwater tank and that all of them had ICH! how unhappy :(
2016-10-17 05:18:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These puffers are monomorphic (meaning there is no apparent difference in appearance between the genders).
Successfully breeding these puffers in captivity is very unlikely.
2006-11-13 07:59:14 · answer #4 · answered by Kay B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Male always follows female.
2006-11-12 16:50:12 · answer #5 · answered by horse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lift their leg and see if anything pokes out at ya.
2006-11-12 22:23:12 · answer #6 · answered by thesharklady1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No clue, try searching here.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/
2006-11-12 18:19:19 · answer #7 · answered by tikitiki 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋