My Growing Puffs (dwarf Puffer Babies)

[iSnail]

About a month old (on microworm diet)

Growing on.... less than 2 months old

Fooled by the empty feeding plastic pipette

The red belly is from the colour of the bloodworms it's eaten.

Latest pics of the duo. About 3½ months old. They look big but only about ½" max

Edit: More pics on page 2

 

[Matty P]

Those are lovely little DPs you've got there! I'm taking it you bred them right? Well done for bringing them up, it's not easy

EDIT: grammar

 

[iSnail]

Those are lovely little DPs you've got there! I'm taking it you breeded them right? Well done for bringing them up, it's not easy

Yes they are tank bred Matt I mentioned I would post pics of them a little while back in the oddballs forum.

 

[Matty P]

Nice job mate Sorry to hi-jack but is it difficult to breed Figure 8 Puffers, or is a 25 gallon tank too small?

 

[iSnail]

Nice job mate Sorry to hi-jack but is it difficult to breed Figure 8 Puffers, or is a 25 gallon tank too small?

Sorry, I have no idea Matt. I've only kept and bred Dwarf Puffers. I'm sure someone in the Brackish Forum can answer you that.

 

[Matty P]

OK thanks anyway Sorry for the hi-jack

 

[paul_219]

Very nice fish. Cute

 

[dthoffsett]

Those are the most adorable little puffers I've ever seen. Well done. Any plans of breeding more?

 

[DarkEntity]

Nice job mate Sorry to hi-jack but is it difficult to breed Figure 8 Puffers, or is a 25 gallon tank too small?

Dwarf Puffers are Sexable. Figure8 Puffers to my knowledge arent. So that in its self makes it somewhat easier lol

 

[iSnail]

Thanks for the nice comments everyone

dthoffsett:
I have several smaller ones in another tank. Hope a few will grow up like these two. The adults are still mating regularly but not as often as a month ago.

DarkEntity:
Imagine what it must be like having baby figure 8 puffers ......

In my very limited experience, breeding DPs has been fairly straight forward. My biggest hurdle is getting the fry to survive the first few weeks.

 

[Liam]

Great pics, I especially like the one with the babies expecting food from the pipette , well done on breeding and rearing these great little fish, Is the plant that’s most visible a type of duckweed?

 

[three-fingers]

Great pictures! The one with the pipette is incredibly cute .

 

[iSnail]

Thanks Liam & three-fingers:
Imagine this --> me + shaky hands + one hand holding pipette the other holding camera = not too bad a pic
Yes Liam, that's ivy leaf duckweed (Lema trisulca). It's a very pretty semi-floating plant and the only plant that I can keep alive in my tanks I'm surprise it's not more commonly seen. Here's a duckweed pic

 

[Fella]

You've done a great job. I suppose you probably have already, but have you got a log of how you bred them?

 

[iSnail]

You've done a great job. I suppose you probably have already, but have you got a log of how you bred them?

Thanks Fella Actually, I have not kept any breeding notes apart from taking lots of pictures
The adults court and mate almost daily (they have slowed down a bit now). I would get very confused trying to keep track of each set of babies especially most don't survive pass a few weeks.