red eye puffers

[Bear6360]

Thanks for the help, Dangerousdan. It is tough to tell, but I'm pretty sure she is a lorteti. She is a lot more greenish brown than the yellow in the photos on that site. She seems to have a horizontal bar marking across the top of her head which is also apparent in the lorteti photo.

There does not appear to be any further accumulation of sludge on the glass today. I will continue monitoring it.

 

[chris_1127]

the markings on the belly are supposed to be a giveaway too from what ive read - my lorteti female has quite a heavily marked belly, with lots of longer dashes. the pics ive seen of markings on the belly of female irrubescos on "the puffer forum" seemed to be more "dotty" and less heavily marked.

Think its the colouring of them, but something about the females of both species reminds me of gremlins!!

 

[Bear6360]

I just looked at her belly. There are no markings. Her belly is completely white.

The sludge tapered off. I scraped the glass again (major pain in the butt). I didn't get all of it, though.

I grabbed my largest snail at home (still smaller than a dime) and put it in with her. I think it might be too large for her to eat. I hope so. The snail has already taken a small chunk of the algae off the glass (what I missed when I scraped).

Do you think a large snail will survive, or will my puffer kill it? I was thinking of getting a larger Apple snail or Ramshorn snail. What do you think?

Thanks in advance! B)

 

[chris_1127]

if you put too big a snail in, the likelihood is that the puffer would just pick bits off it and kill it slowly