Puffer Id Please!

[qas_1985]

Hi


I bought this a few weeks ago. it was sold to me as an red leopard puffer however i dont know the proper name for it. the guy in the store told me that it was brackish. however after ringing the store yesterday ive realised they dont even know what it is. I hope somone can help me out with this because i dont know if I can move it with other tank mates or not without being sure of what it is.

thanks

Qas

 

[The-Wolf]

does the tail fin have a red band and are his eyes red,
if so I think you have a Carinotetraodon irrubesco

 

[Miss Wiggle]

does the tail fin have a red band and are his eyes red,
if so I think you have a Carinotetraodon irrubesco

her if that ID is right..... just being nosey and googled it and the males and females have quite different markings.

 

[qas_1985]

does the tail fin have a red band and are his eyes red,
if so I think you have a Carinotetraodon irrubesco

yes it does. just as in the photo the eyes are read and so is the tail. i thought it mite be this species. how aggressive are they? i did have he in with some fast moving fish and he didnt actually do anything from what i saw.

 

[matt77]

In one of the pictures it shows a red spot 3/4 of the way down the body is it on both sides?

 

[qas_1985]

In one of the pictures it shows a red spot 3/4 of the way down the body is it on both sides?

no. there is a similar pattern but no red spot in the middle of the pattern. like on its left. y do u ask?


thanks Qas

 

[qas_1985]

does the tail fin have a red band and are his eyes red,
if so I think you have a Carinotetraodon irrubesco

her if that ID is right..... just being nosey and googled it and the males and females have quite different markings.

if just read that males have a ridge that expands and i saw my puffer's expand. can females have expanding ridges?

 

[matt77]

Hi

its markings and that pattern i would say its an Tetraodon cochinchinensis(Fangs puffer) but could be wrong

 

[Fella]

It is definitely not C.irrubesco.

It is one of the fish from the target puffer family, the type I would be unable to be sure of.

What I would say, is don't keep anything with it, at all.


The red tail is unlike any target species I have seen before, so I would rule out a fangs. Possibly a Tetraodon abei, but I could not say for sure.

Irrubesco only get a few inches long, yours will get much bigger.

 

[nmonks]

I concur with Fella. That is not C. irrubesco. It is definitely one of the Asian freshwater, non-piscivorous, Tetraodon species, but I'm not sure which one. It might be Tetraodon abei (10 cm), Tetraodon cochinchinensis (7 cm), or Tetraodon leiurus (16 cm). All of these have a red eye-spot on the flanks near the tail. Fishbase says of T. abei that is is: "Distinguished from T. leiurus and from all other Tetraodon by its color: entire dorsolateral surface of body with numerous pale spots uniformly distributed over a dark background."

Regardless of what it is, it will need neutral freshwater rather than brackish, cannot be kept with other tankmates except perhaps for spawning purposes, and needs a diet of shelled invertebrates rather than feeder fish. Tetraodon leiurus is sometimes found in brackish water but certainly doesn't need brackish water. The other two species are (to the best of my knowledge) entirely freshwater in distribution.

Cheers, Neale

 

[Rocker]

Its without a doubt a Tetraodon abei.

 

[F.O.H]

it looks like a dragon puffer to me.

http/images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=DRAGON+PUFFER

TOP LEFT HAND CORNER

 

[Fella]

It's definitely not Tetraodon palambengensis either.

Dragon puffer

Tetraodon Abei

 

[DarkEntity]

Id say an Abei, if so then its a fresh water Puffer and should be kept alone afair