hair algae on my puffer?

[czieler]

My valentini puffer seems to have hair algae on his lip...it looks like a mustache. Could he have just been eating some and got it stuck there...its been there a couple of days...

 

[Bennihanna]

It it caught on his tooth? I have an orchid dottyback that swallowed a hair one time. It was looped coming out of his mouth, I can not believe he survived.

 

[sea devil]

Does it make him look like Burt Reynolds?:lol: It probably is just snagged.

 

[Bennihanna]

Czieler how is your puffer around your corals. I have always wanted an orange tail, but I am playing it safe.

 

[czieler]

I have the valentini puffer and a green spotted puffer both in that tank...they don't touch the corals... at least I've never seen them do it.

The green spotted loves to eat cerith snails...although I haven't been able to find any for him lately...and the valentini loves macro algae and mysis.

I recently found hair algae growing on a rock that was turned over at the bottom of the tank so I moved the rock so that my fox face could eat the algae off of it..guessing the puffer ate some... maybe it is stuck on his top teeth...

It sure looks funny...although it doesn't seem to be bothering him...my neighbors kids got a kick out of it...

 

[Edge]

Maybe it's a diguise so he can eat some corals then later say it wasn't him. It was his mustached evil twin.

 

[Ikaria]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7334800#post7334800 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Edge
Maybe it's a diguise so he can eat some corals then later say it wasn't him. It was his mustached evil twin.

Good one!

 

[patharm]

hair algae on my puffer?
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Oh Boy! That sound personal.

Patrick

 

[czieler]

LOL

 

[floridareefs]

so, is the puffer ok?

 

[czieler]

Yeah...he is still swimming around fine with his new mustache... I'm surprised the fox face hasn't tried to get it off of him...

He doesn't seem to mind it being there at all. He was eating macroalgae out of my hand last nite..but he won't stay still long enough for me to try and pull it off...plus he finally just started eating out of my hand...so I didn't want to freak him out by trying to grab at him...