Reef Safe Puffers???

[Shawn D]

I haven't gotten one yet but when I do I will post and let you guys know.

 

[espocrespo]

there arent any offically reef safe puffers

 

[Coheed]

So will saddles or tobies mess with clams? I know everyone is different, and I know that some mess with corals and some don't, but are clams safe? I'd really love to get a crocea and a puffer, lol.

 

[Quaos]

I think the Clams would be worse off with a puffer than any coral.

 

[TheORKINMan]

I've read some stuff on people acclimating Green Spot Puffers (a fresh -> Brackish water variety) to saltwater with success. It'll still be an aggressive puffer that'll eat your snails and other shelled inverts, but corals are not part of it's natural habitat and thus it shouldn't eat them.

 

[Eklikewhoa]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12989637#post12989637 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TheORKINMan
I've read some stuff on people acclimating Green Spot Puffers (a fresh -> Brackish water variety) to saltwater with success. It'll still be an aggressive puffer that'll eat your snails and other shelled inverts, but corals are not part of it's natural habitat and thus it shouldn't eat them.

Actually as the Green spot puffer gets older the salinity needs to get higher so it's best to convert them over.

 

[TheORKINMan]

It shouldn't mess with corals though right? Just be a normal mean ole puffer that might threaten slow moving fish and inverts yes?

 

[Coheed]

I don't understand why it would mess with clams. They don't move or look like food.

 

[raddogz]

Cuz they look tasty - all meat and once you bust into the shell there is just tons and tons of meat.

 

[tybox]

have had a pocupine in my 125gal reef for years lots of sps and lps some softy hitchhikers(zoos,shrooms) he has never touched a thing. they are pretty messy eaters though so big skimmer is a plus.

 

[bastianbali]

wow... i'm browsing this forums to look how to catch my saddle valentini puffer and found out that only mine that eat corals, for exactly, it eat doughnut, open brain coral, clam, short tentacle plate coral and other that i don't know how to spell it in english. it only eat at night about 10pm to 12pm. it going around n around in endless cycle. it really drive me crazy. my fish trap can't catch this one since it won't eat frozen brine shrimp, pellets, d*mn !! already put brain coral and doughnut inside my fish trap, and after 3rd attempts going in, and escaped when i was lift the fish trap, it never want to go in again... what should i do ? really need advices...