I see them all the time and they have them in fresh water i thought all puffers were saltwater fish ... can they be put into saltwater? If so how would i go about it ?
walmart puffer fish
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There is freshwater puffers. SOme get a few feet. MBU puffers are the largest species of FW then it is Fahaka.
The one you saw at walmart is a brackish fish. Its both fresh and salt water mix. Even though they use just freshwater they can adapt to it. Search the puffer section on here a lot of great info!
The one you saw at walmart is a brackish fish. Its both fresh and salt water mix. Even though they use just freshwater they can adapt to it. Search the puffer section on here a lot of great info!
Brackish puffer normally lives part of its life in brackish water and as an adult lives in saltwater. Many fish do this like mollies. If a fish has been living in fresh water for a long time and is suddenly switched to saltwater then they usually cannot adapt fast enough to survive. Sometimes it takes weeks to convert a brackish fish from freshwater to saltwater, by slowly raising the salinity over time.
I suppose it can work I'm no expert I have never done this. I had a conversation with my father who is a saltwater guy and he told me people do the drip method all the time.
The puffer I believe most be a brackish specimen or else it will just die. Kind of like snowflake eels and other eels that can be freshwater/brackish/saltwater fish. If you're thinking about this why not just buy a saltwater proven puffer?
My father had a 4 foot moray eeel with a puffer and they both did well together.
What kind of puffer was it ? I have a 2 foot moray eel. . Well cause the puffers at walmart are cheep lol
a drip would probably work. You could also put it in fresh and slowly increase the sg. Probably not a good idea to put in a puffer with a moray. It could work, but puffers tend to be aggressive, especially towards slower moving fish, plus morays are predatory
No idea I am not into saltwater so didn't care too much. The puffer was big though because the eel was huge.
