Hi There!

Hello!

I'm not much of a "reefer", in fact, I have no corals, but I do have a nice 180 gallon FOWLR tank! The residents include 1 dogface puffer (who is my CHILD, I literally nursed him back from near death from this horrible LFS, and he's the one who got me into saltwater. He's maybe 6 inches in length), 1 Vlamingi Tang (I know, I know, he gets too big. I have a home he WILL be going to when he gets around 15 inches. He's around 8 inches.),1 Falco Hawkfish (2 inches), and most recently, a STUNNING princess parrotfish (eating mysis and sliversides!! she's around 7-ish inches). I used to have a 90 gallon, but I upgraded to the 180. I used to have a lot of really neat fish (a rhinopias scorpion, who was AMAZING, a little Fu Manchu lion who ate frozen food like a PIG, and a really nice male bluethroat trigger). But they've all passed on.

All in all, I don't think I'm doing bad for a 15 year old. I've bought almost everything myself, too(parents have helped out when I was setting up the 180).

 

Welcome to 3reef Dogface.

I would like to see some images your puffer please.

 

They're on my profile! Well, there's only one...Sorry for the bad quality, I took 'em with my ipod touch, haha. I'd love to hear what you think!

 

Welcome! I just started about 2 months ago with a reef tank, I think, and am hoping to get my newly acquired 90 to start cycling so I can have a FOWLR. And the fish I want first and foremost is ... a dog-faced puffer

Have you seen the video on YouTube of one closing it's eyes and yawning? That sold me on it, though I expect that is a rare sight, if at all.

 

Hello and welcome to 3reef

 

Dogfaces are the most personable fish out there, imo. Mine "yawns" occaisionally, but I can also hand feed her, pet her, and he'll follow me if I go to another end of the tank (all the fish know I'm the "food god"). Just watch out for ich, as puffers have no scales.