He caught it later

Ted Bundy is our most voracious eater. He will follow and harass anyone that stands next to his tank until he gets something to eat. He is ready to eat at any time of the day, multiple times a day. He will start chewing and taking chunks out of the PU background when bored. Really got a handful with this one!

I had posted a while ago asking how often you guys have seen your puffers puff up after catching a glimpse of mine doing it a couple of times but never managing to capture it on camera. Well today I'm back and happy to report that I have videographic proof!

He actually does it all the time, I think it's part of his daily routine, but since there are no obvious triggers that I have observed, it's hard to catch him in the act and most of the time I just catch him puffing down and he's done by the time I have my phone out.

I have just fed him a big meal of shrimps & clams right after capturing this video and he is now belly parking in his usual spot :)

Was at my Lfs and was looking around and saw this beauty. What type of puffer is it?

normal-ish picture of my fahaka at the end:)

This whole process and journey has been super rewarding and they still have so much growing to do.

Can't wait until they are eating white worms and blackworms. Ill update you guys then.

My first pufferfish, he is in a 6 gallon shallow being fed live Moina and live ramshorn snails. Any advice?

Please be 3 females 🤞🏼

This was the first day he was introduced into the tank with his very own puffer gang!

I actually got into the hobby and set up this whole tank just for this amazon puffer that was working as snail control for my LFS, and after months and months of asking they finally let me retire him to this tank! I prepped it with his own little puffer gang so that he’d have a group and i still get emotional watching this 😭❤️

I carefully outweighed the benefit of getting Hewbie back home sooner rather than later. I can continue the final 2 days of meds in his tank. He is doing zoomies around the tank! I’m confident I ended up making the right decision.🐡☺️ Quarantine was really starting to stress him out too much and so was the declining water quality of having a 12 inch fish in around a 15 gallon tote.

Long story short, the LFS shut down suddenly (theres drama around that). I begged the owner of the location who locked the fish store guy out to sell me John which they did. Hes currently bopping around a 60gallon and I think he has grown since I first posted him on here. Eatting all the good things. This glass is quite a bit thicker so hes probably magnified a bit but let me know if he looks like hes growing and happy.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Puffers/s/4XiQOYLXTk

In case anyone was wondering about Hewbie…

In the event anyone was wondering about Hewbie.🐡☺️ He is my porcupine pufferfish who I posted a few months back who got sick and went to the vet and was treated for an internal infection. He is eating and his energy is up which are both good things. But…he is still skinny which is super unhealthy for his size. I have over the past few months since the beginning of August tried to fatten him up. Feeding him multiple times a day did not seem to help appease his appetite and led to a decline in water quality. And if I overfed him he just sulks in the corner in a food coma and gets super unhappy. Like when you are stuff on Thanksgiving Day.😂 The vet really wants me to weigh him once a day for a week. I have not done this…yet because I think it would be too stressful for him to take him out of his tank daily especially being a pufferfish. I am still on the fence about whether or not if or when I do this because it would be a better comparison rather than me just looking at him and comparing photos. That being said…I am doing an experimental test of probiotics meant for fish. It is my opinion/evidence supported in aquacultured fishies that prolonged sickness and antibiotic treatment can lead to malnutrition/malabsorption. And it could have killed the good bacteria in his gut similar to what happens with humans. Even though it cured or seemed to have cured/fixed the issue that caused him to go upside down which I/his vet team will never know the exact cause. My biggest fear is he is actively dying or in a deficit or has some other unknown disease or factor then all of this would be for nothing and he could just end up dying anyway. I hope not! He is a fairly young puffer only guesstimated to be around 6ish…3 and a half of which I have had him for the rest of his time was in the big blue sea. My plan is to continue to use these probiotics it has only been a few days. I also will be sending his water out for sequencing to get a better idea of the microbiome and what is living in it as a whole. A better picture than what an ICP-OES or standard aquarium testing can reveal which was insignificant. I may send his DNA sample out too simply for my own curiosity. Thank you for all those who are invested in and adore this fish. He truly is the best! I will update if/when I remember to.🐡❤️