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03-16-2003, 06:56 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Care of Porcupine Puffer
Anyboday have a Porcupine Puffer? Can they be put in with hermits and emerald green crabs or will he eat them? Are they hard to keep? I know they are not reef safe. Casey 
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03-16-2003, 07:56 PM
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Look deeply into my eyes
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NW Indiana
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Casey. if you have a reef tank, pass on the puffer,,,,
it'll eat the crusty's you have,,,,,save it for a Fish Only,,,,,
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03-16-2003, 07:59 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Jeff I have 5 tanks 2 are fowlers thats why I was asking. Casey
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03-16-2003, 08:29 PM
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Look deeply into my eyes
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Location: NW Indiana
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would prob eat the critters Casey,,,now get you behind in da chat,,,,we all are waitin!!
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03-17-2003, 01:45 PM
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Just me
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Griffithville Arkansas
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I have had a emerald crab in my 100 with a trigger, porkypine , and stars and stripes puffer for several months now and they havent bothered him at all. but those little hermits that I had in my reef as I found them I was putting them in the 100 and I dropped one in the other day and they ate it but not the emerald go figure LOL.
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03-17-2003, 03:04 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: OTSEGO MINNESOTA
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Hi~
We had a puffer about 2 years ago when I started in this saltwater world. We had emeralds and hermits. He did not touch
them at all!!!
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03-17-2003, 03:30 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Thanks Feena and Welcome to TRT. Casey
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03-17-2003, 05:43 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
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Ok I have a sharpnosed puffer in my reef and I know it will eat shrimp and it eye balls the snails but so far has not been lucky getting to one!
It has picked at a couple corals but no damage at this point as I keep the puffer well fed and that may help alot! I think puffers are really a neat fish and don't know if I would recommend one for a reef! That choice is yours!
Here's a pic of mine:
Last edited by MontanaRocknReefer; 03-17-2003 at 05:46 PM.
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03-17-2003, 08:38 PM
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Look deeply into my eyes
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NW Indiana
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good luck,,, Murphy's Law and all,,,, 
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03-17-2003, 09:37 PM
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Fish Boy
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Marietta, GA
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i had a customer that had a porcupine puffer in his reef tank for the longest time. it would let his cleaner shrimp crawl all in his mouth and really didnt harm anything. he told me that he would carry around his starfish all the time though. but he did eventually want some other inverts that wouldnt have mixed. so i told him to give him to me
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03-17-2003, 10:56 PM
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Look deeply into my eyes
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NW Indiana
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again,,,Murphy's law,,,be warned ,,,,IMO,,,if ya want it ,,,it'll eat the goodies,,,,ask my female in my 180 FO,,,YUM!  
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