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Mine and my friend's always follow you when you walk by the tank. How long have you had yours and how often are you near the tank? Also, do you have an automated feed system or do it yourself?
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Mine and my friend's always follow you when you walk by the tank. How long have you had yours and how often are you near the tank? Also, do you have an automated feed system or do it yourself?
scooter31707
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my Lt. Tang is great and I have lawnmower blenny and flame hawkfish that have very funny personality.
CrayolaViolence
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I've had the one for about 7 months. And I hand feed him daily. He eats from my fingers and likes to try and take a few tips with him when he darts to the bottom. The other I've only had for about a month. Both do follow me when I walk near the tank, but they also scare themselves all the time.
This may be why they don't seem very personable, it typically takes them a few months to settle in, so the one may just now be getting used to you. Are you sure they are being startled and not just bored? A GSP typically needs a strong current to swim against for exercise or they will tend to dash around the tank to get the same exercise. I have a couple of 1200gph powerheads in my Puffer tank just for the GSPs to swim against. It is pretty entertaining to see them hanging out in the current swimming like it's a treadmill.
This will be my last post as I didn't mean to hijack your post, I'm a little bit of a puffer nut.
CrayolaViolence
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no thank you. Yes, I'm kind of one too, even though I only have the tiny spotted. I do love puffers.
I'm pretty sure they just get skittish sometimes. They play and chase each other then they will scare themselves. For a long time the peppermint shrimp bullied the eldest. Then one day he got really mad and ate him. Right there in front of us. The two ghost shrimp are still in the tanks doing fine, as are the snails and puffers. They are both really really young. The oldest is barely over 1.5 inches the other is about that size but much thinner. (he was really malnourished when I got him and had to be wormed and begged into eating. Also had to change him over to salt since they'd sold him as a fresh water and it was not agreeing with him.) The one has scared himself a few times right out of the tank (it now has a lid) when I was cleaning it. Both are quite the characters. I do love them but I met a mappa puffer one day, no bigger than my thumb, and that little bugger would roll on it's back for you to scratch his belly right there in the tank. I fell in love with that fish, but couldn't get him at the time, since I only had a smaller tank that was reef. I've since made room for bigger tanks including a fish only, and I do want a puffer eventually. I doubt I'll ever find one like him, but I keep hoping. That's how I sorta wound up with the angel fish. He had such a great personality in the store, came to the top to be fed and even petted. I didn't want to miss out again so I bought him, he's ruled the house ever since and all my latest additions have been with him in mind. Tank, to substrate, to rock set up. I wanted to get him a castle (yeah cheesy I know but still) but can't find one he can fit in. LOL Any how, he's a great fish, one of a kind, hope to rediscover "my" lost puffer one day, but for now I'm designing around the emperor.
CrayolaViolence
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P.s. Didn't meant to make it sound like the leopards weren't personable. They are, they're just wimpy. HAHAHAHA I call them my fake puffers.
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