Puffer looking for home

[StayPuft]

Cute, lovable Stars & Stripes puffer, around 5", looking for a good home. I'm not asking anything for it, just that you have a proper home for it, a large enough tank with good tank mates. This puffer eats everything, right out of my hand, not skittish at all. Probably wouldn't do well with highly agressive tank mates, but does just fine with triggers, angels, tangs, wrasses, eels, you name it. Just nothing overly agressive like sohal tang, clown trigger, blueline trigger and any of the other piranha impersonators.

His diet consists of different frozen food formula, raw shrimp with shell on, squid, clams, it'll eat pretty much anything. Very lovable, even spits water at me when he's hungry. lol

I got him when he was tiny, less than 2" from someone who was getting out of the hobby. I raised him but he's getting too big for his home and my 150gal is fully stocked already.

 

[StayPuft]

I've been getting some questions about Stars & Stripes puffers, so I thought I'd just answer them here...

In captivity they grow to about a foot, so you'd need a good size tank, I'd say 125gal or larger. They're not agressive at all, though it might try to eat your cleanup crew. It never bothered mine but it might when it gets larger. It's also not reef safe as it WILL eat different coral. This is a great fish for a FOWLR tank, lots of character.

The reason I got it is because this guy wanted to get out of the hobby and was moving. So he was going to throw the puffer away, didn't have time to look for a home. Rather than have the puffer thrown away, I took it with the intent to raise it a little then find it a good home. I've had it for about 6 months. I can still hold on to it for a while, but I thought I should start to look for a more permanent home for it.