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Are there any freshwater puffers that actually puffs and doesnt get too big?

All puffers are capable of inflating themselves, but it is an enormously stressful undertanking, both "psychologically" and physiologically. Don't tempt them to inflate; it's cruel.



Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 15-Oct-2005 02:13

Check out www.pufferlist.com

If youre looking for a puffer that puffs youll be disappointed. A happy puffer will almost never puff, and in captivity some puffers behaviour goes a bit abnormal and they may never puff up if even under stress, some would actually die without ever puffing up.Frightening them to make them puff up is not humane.

Puffers are nice for several reasons, their intelligence, their amazing biology and form ,their precise helicopter like swimming techniques and the fact they normally they can recognise their keeper are the nicer things to watch them for.

Well, that and watching a big puffer crunch on frozen cockles, which bearing in mind if you stamped on a frozen cockle youd probably just hurt your foot, is pretty amazing.

Last edited by longhairedgit at 15-Oct-2005 00:19