My very first fish was a green spotted puffer named Squishy.💚 It was a very steep learning curve. Being young and naive, I didn’t do my research beforehand. All I saw was the cutest little fish I’d ever seen, and I fell in love with her instantly. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I made a lot of mistakes, but I learned A LOT and became a better fish keeper. Now, being a single mom of a young boy, I don’t have the time or energy to get another one and provide adequate care. Some day I will have another. I’ll always have a soft part in my heart for green spotted puffers! 💚🐡RIP SQUISHY🐡💚
Just came across this video. Wish it would have been around when I first started keeping Amazon Puffers. By far the most practical and watchable video on caring for them out there and you go into excellent but easy to understand reasons as to why to care for them that way. I’ve been keeping them for awhile now and I still learned a lot. VERY interesting and informative. Thank you!
I giggled out loud several times throughout this video… 2:49 “Scientists don’t agree on anything.” 😂 Thanks for geekin’ out with us Dan! Always a pleasure!
I would love a vid like this about pea puffers, I know there are other sources for info but even though i do watch them i would rather get a 2nd opinion from you too lol. Keep up the good work peeps
Love this! So glad I came across this video, thanks for the info. We decided on 6 Amazon puffers not too long ago. I'm almost done building a tank for them. This info is such a great help!
I keep my Amazon Puffer, Snooter, with a big school of Pseudomugil Luminatus and Panda Garras. My favorite tank. All peaceful. Gotta try the repashi thing, I trim his teeth every few months.
Well done, Dan!!! I watched this for absolutely no reason... except that I love puffers!! 😍🐡🐡 Found it very interesting and entertaining! Cheers, Dan!! 🏝🐳🎈🍻 Subbed back when I watched your meds vid with the Amazons.. 😁👍👍 The biggest surprise I had with puffers and meds... Levamisole!!! Skinny puffers recovered in half a day on Expel-P.
I have seen my amazon puffers pecking algae off glass and decorations and thought it was so odd. But after seeing this video I do believe they may be supplementing their diet with the algae not just what's consumed in the mayfly larvae
Not so much a fish nerd as I just love my puffer fish! I kept them a few years ago and just bought a new 200l L corner tank for the new house so just letting it cycle before collecting a few! But I think I'm going to go with the Amazon puffer this time, it's one I've never kept or been able to get hold of but rec my LFS said they had 5 types of puffers in and will be putting the new batch they got in out on Thursday from quarantine so I actually quite excited to see what's there haha!
Wow what great information!!!!! Thank you thank you for making this video! I definitely won't read these articles but you putting it in a video is great!
I've had this idea that the reason why these puffers don't breed in captivity is due to the lack of the saxitoxin producing bacteria in captivity. Maybe something about the lack of this toxin in the body is a subconscious red flag to egg production and breeding as they don't feel the area they are in is safe for their young? Just a thought.
"Sunfish" in this case literally means nothing. They are in no way related to other sunfish found in freshwater (Centrarchidae). Mola Mola are technically a puffer fish aka Tetraodontiformes
I kept 5 in a 30 gallon. I also had corydoras and 1 figure 8 puffer. As long as you have tons of plants that they can hide behind they'll be fine. Mine were in a heavily planted tank so everyone could hide if wanted.
Hello Dan! Greetings from Brazil. Despite the Amazon puffer being native to this region, we don't have much information available about the species, so since I have one of these little guys, I decided to do some more in-depth research and ended up finding your channel. I managed to find oyster flour here, but not the other product you use, I believe it's not available here. I thought about using agar agar and mixing it with oyster flour, adding some protein, for example shrimp, and a bit of spirulina. Do you think it's enough to keep him healthy and avoid the need to trim his teeth? I want to avoid that as much as possible. Also, I usually leave some live snails available in his aquarium for him to forage and hunt for food. Thanks in advance for the content, really cool channel!
Mealworms help with puffers teeth with them having a hard exoskeleton and they will also put the weight on in skinny puffers if you haven't tried them you should
We have 1 right now. We weren't sure how many would be ok together. So we're thinking about grabbing 4 or so more to put with him. Unfortunately he was grabbed by one of my Clown Loaches so he's in the hospital tank right now. But as soon as he's better we're going to put him into a different tank with our empire gudgeon and peacock gudgeon and really want to put some friends in there with him. We hope you'll have them I'm stock soon. Thanks for the great information about them. It's hard to find good information on Amazon puffers specifically. God bless
@@bredixon7685 Ya, we know that now. We just couldn't find any good reliable information before this video. There just aren't very good sources and they all say something different. Thank you. God bless
Not just biting. As long as it is injected into the body as opposed to being eaten, it is venomous. So for example, many sea urchins are venomous despite not having a mouth suited for biting. This is because they inject the venom through their spines into you. Pufferfish spines don’t have any toxins though, so pufferfish are purely poisonous.
So confident but wrong puffers are venomous because they administer venom through spines poisonous creatures excrete it through the skin not an apendage
Thank you so much for this treasure mine of info! I've ordered one amazon puffer to add to my community aquarium, I'm hoping they'll be a little sweetheart and not cause trouble with my fishies, I do have congo tetras, a plakat betta and a decent amount of more placid fishes and yeah... I can live with a tiny fin nip once in a while, but hopefully the little bugger won't kill anything.... I've got a colony of buffalo worms for my tarantulas and I wonder if Mariquita will take them (the name I chose for my little bugger, it both means ladybug in Spanish, after Cory's Mbu puffer, and a slur for gay people, don't worry I'm one of them :P) I've also got frozen bloodworms and artemia (live foods are very hard to come by in Spain) and I'm ordering a starter colony of ramshorn snails, I also have freeze dried gammus shrimps (not sure if its the same name in English) it's usually used as turtle food, I've also seen reports of them taking normal dried foods sometimes, but as you can see I'm not relying on that. my aquarium is for the most part well planted (40 gallons), but I just recently removed some plants to add some new ones that haven't grown in yet, I'm also injecting co2. One important question I have, a friend told me their poop is also toxic, do you know that to be true???
I have a new Amazon puffer and he is in a temporary set up but he does not seem happy at all he is swimming vertical and has refused to eat the blood worms I give him and these are the same worms they fed to him in the store what do I do is he cold?? Because I don't have a tank heater
Great info, Dan! I haven't kept Amazon puffers yet, but have other SE Asian species. Great fish! Some constructive criticism, I feel like the sound effects were turned up to 80 on this production. Maybe tone em down a bit, it was a little distracting at times. Still very much enjoyed the video. 👍
I added 6 buffer fish to my fish tank, innocently believing that my fry of galaxy rasboras would be just fine but it turn out that one of them began hunting them. I think buffers also might eat small fish that fit in their mouth.
I hated it! It is over produced and very annoying! I have watched all your videos to the end, but could not only watch 2 minutes. You could have done a video of all fish in this 2 days instead! I looked and you do not even have these Puffers in stock.
I liked all the academic data in this, this is much more thorough than the typical aquarium fish overview.
Thanks...glad you enjoyed the data, if not the sound effects :)
My very first fish was a green spotted puffer named Squishy.💚 It was a very steep learning curve. Being young and naive, I didn’t do my research beforehand. All I saw was the cutest little fish I’d ever seen, and I fell in love with her instantly. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I made a lot of mistakes, but I learned A LOT and became a better fish keeper. Now, being a single mom of a young boy, I don’t have the time or energy to get another one and provide adequate care. Some day I will have another. I’ll always have a soft part in my heart for green spotted puffers! 💚🐡RIP SQUISHY🐡💚
My favorite RUclipsr :)
I would love a video like this - on the spotted congo puffer!
Just came across this video. Wish it would have been around when I first started keeping Amazon Puffers. By far the most practical and watchable video on caring for them out there and you go into excellent but easy to understand reasons as to why to care for them that way. I’ve been keeping them for awhile now and I still learned a lot. VERY interesting and informative. Thank you!
Thanks for watching, BTW. I am glad the video was valuable to you.
They are so gentle I love my Amazon puffer, Oscar. Very peaceful, and cute!
I giggled out loud several times throughout this video… 2:49 “Scientists don’t agree on anything.” 😂 Thanks for geekin’ out with us Dan! Always a pleasure!
Thanks for the information, greetings from Holland🇳🇱!
I love Amazon puffers thanks for this information
I would love a vid like this about pea puffers, I know there are other sources for info but even though i do watch them i would rather get a 2nd opinion from you too lol. Keep up the good work peeps
Amazing video with the graphics and the academic sources! My very favorite type of video! Thank you
Thanks, Alex. That means a lot coming from you. Your presentation at Fishtoberfest was one of the best I have ever had the privilege of attending.
@@DansFish well that means a great deal to me! So thank you! Keep on keeping on!
Another great video...Thanks Dan
2:13 “SCIENCE!!!” 😂🧬👍🔬🫶👩🔬🙌
Love this! So glad I came across this video, thanks for the info. We decided on 6 Amazon puffers not too long ago. I'm almost done building a tank for them. This info is such a great help!
I keep my Amazon Puffer, Snooter, with a big school of Pseudomugil Luminatus and Panda Garras. My favorite tank. All peaceful. Gotta try the repashi thing, I trim his teeth every few months.
I ve just found and watched this video and thought it was fantastic. Thank you for doing it.
Awesome video, week edited and enjoyable! Love your channel and live streams, appreciate your educational content.
Thanks, Bruce. I'm glad you liked it.
I loved this video normally nobody talks about the evolution and wild behavior of animals so i really appreciate how you did
Amazingly informative video. Thanks!
Well stated and easy to follow…even for a simple guy like me. Thx Dan
Made by a simple guy. Watched by a simple guy. Its a beautiful cycle :)
Very interesting
Great information on the Amazon puffers! Looking forward to the livestream! Thank you sir🙂👍🏻
Awesome video man!!!!! Thanks for the info, This is a species that I always been interested, you answered many questions I had.✌✌✌✌✌✌
thank you for this. i was debating on getting some for my angelfish tank. probably not a good idea. very informative
Well done, Dan!!!
I watched this for absolutely no reason... except that I love puffers!! 😍🐡🐡
Found it very interesting and entertaining!
Cheers, Dan!! 🏝🐳🎈🍻
Subbed back when I watched your meds vid with the Amazons.. 😁👍👍 The biggest surprise I had with puffers and meds... Levamisole!!! Skinny puffers recovered in half a day on Expel-P.
could you do a video for a spotted congo puffer please?
I have seen my amazon puffers pecking algae off glass and decorations and thought it was so odd. But after seeing this video I do believe they may be supplementing their diet with the algae not just what's consumed in the mayfly larvae
Great video.unfortunatly i cant have fw puffers in Australia but im definitely going to steal the oyster shell idea for my sw puffers.
Not so much a fish nerd as I just love my puffer fish! I kept them a few years ago and just bought a new 200l L corner tank for the new house so just letting it cycle before collecting a few! But I think I'm going to go with the Amazon puffer this time, it's one I've never kept or been able to get hold of but rec my LFS said they had 5 types of puffers in and will be putting the new batch they got in out on Thursday from quarantine so I actually quite excited to see what's there haha!
Wow what great information!!!!! Thank you thank you for making this video! I definitely won't read these articles but you putting it in a video is great!
I didn’t know the Mola mola was a puffer!! Wow!! I did know about the genome thing because they are used a a model system!
Me either that's cool!
Yep. They are basically a giant puffer that does not puff.
Well, related, if they are puffers so are triggerfish
I love your videos, thank you for posting
Does it have to be “flaked” oyster shells? Or is crushed fine?
I've had this idea that the reason why these puffers don't breed in captivity is due to the lack of the saxitoxin producing bacteria in captivity. Maybe something about the lack of this toxin in the body is a subconscious red flag to egg production and breeding as they don't feel the area they are in is safe for their young? Just a thought.
I hope you figure them out...I would LOVE to be able to purchase aquarium bred Amazon Puffers.
Yeah Dan! Love these guys 😉😉
They are a hoot indeed.
im in tx I have 4 amazon puffers...where wpuld i get the shells to mix un their rapashy
When will you have some available?
Great info. I do want to mention that mola molas are related to puffers but are actually sunfish.
"Sunfish" in this case literally means nothing. They are in no way related to other sunfish found in freshwater (Centrarchidae). Mola Mola are technically a puffer fish aka Tetraodontiformes
Love Dan!!
Great video!
Love this video. I want to get one of the tetradon hairy puffers.
I loved it! You’ve got a warehouse full of fish, I would love to start seeing these on a regular basis!😁🤘🏻🤘🏻🐠🦯
Great video Dan! It had Bill Nye the science guy vibes 👍🏻
Thanks for the video. I'd love to see one like this for pea puffers too!
Hi, you didn't mention what the minimum tank size for these guys are.
I kept 5 in a 30 gallon. I also had corydoras and 1 figure 8 puffer. As long as you have tons of plants that they can hide behind they'll be fine. Mine were in a heavily planted tank so everyone could hide if wanted.
Pea puffer spotlight please!!!!!
Hello Dan! Greetings from Brazil. Despite the Amazon puffer being native to this region, we don't have much information available about the species, so since I have one of these little guys, I decided to do some more in-depth research and ended up finding your channel. I managed to find oyster flour here, but not the other product you use, I believe it's not available here. I thought about using agar agar and mixing it with oyster flour, adding some protein, for example shrimp, and a bit of spirulina. Do you think it's enough to keep him healthy and avoid the need to trim his teeth? I want to avoid that as much as possible. Also, I usually leave some live snails available in his aquarium for him to forage and hunt for food. Thanks in advance for the content, really cool channel!
Oii, você pode me passar seu Instagram? Gostaria de criar e não tenho informações sobre
@@AlanaFranco01 Consegui bastante informação, pode me chamar, é o mesmo @ q o do youtube
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What if you keep them with scale-less fish?
Mealworms help with puffers teeth with them having a hard exoskeleton and they will also put the weight on in skinny puffers if you haven't tried them you should
Should they be alive? Because they bite..
@tracyjamieson3993 they don't have to be alive. Just buy tubs of dry mealworms
We have 1 right now. We weren't sure how many would be ok together. So we're thinking about grabbing 4 or so more to put with him. Unfortunately he was grabbed by one of my Clown Loaches so he's in the hospital tank right now. But as soon as he's better we're going to put him into a different tank with our empire gudgeon and peacock gudgeon and really want to put some friends in there with him. We hope you'll have them I'm stock soon. Thanks for the great information about them. It's hard to find good information on Amazon puffers specifically.
God bless
Always keep 5 or more of Amazon's. They're very social and you will see their personalities come out.
@@bredixon7685 Ya, we know that now. We just couldn't find any good reliable information before this video. There just aren't very good sources and they all say something different. Thank you.
God bless
@dans fish i have a 20 gallon long looking to buy Kali tawa rainbow fish from you how many would be suitable for my tank??
Puffers are toxic/poisonous and not venomous. Venomous is transfer of toxins through biting where as poisonous is transfer of toxins by absorption
when did he say it was venomous
@@cc-nb5fb like more than twice
@@cc-nb5fb 1:59
Not just biting. As long as it is injected into the body as opposed to being eaten, it is venomous. So for example, many sea urchins are venomous despite not having a mouth suited for biting. This is because they inject the venom through their spines into you. Pufferfish spines don’t have any toxins though, so pufferfish are purely poisonous.
So confident but wrong puffers are venomous because they administer venom through spines poisonous creatures excrete it through the skin not an apendage
Do you still keep discus?
Thank you so much for this treasure mine of info! I've ordered one amazon puffer to add to my community aquarium, I'm hoping they'll be a little sweetheart and not cause trouble with my fishies, I do have congo tetras, a plakat betta and a decent amount of more placid fishes and yeah... I can live with a tiny fin nip once in a while, but hopefully the little bugger won't kill anything.... I've got a colony of buffalo worms for my tarantulas and I wonder if Mariquita will take them (the name I chose for my little bugger, it both means ladybug in Spanish, after Cory's Mbu puffer, and a slur for gay people, don't worry I'm one of them :P) I've also got frozen bloodworms and artemia (live foods are very hard to come by in Spain) and I'm ordering a starter colony of ramshorn snails, I also have freeze dried gammus shrimps (not sure if its the same name in English) it's usually used as turtle food, I've also seen reports of them taking normal dried foods sometimes, but as you can see I'm not relying on that. my aquarium is for the most part well planted (40 gallons), but I just recently removed some plants to add some new ones that haven't grown in yet, I'm also injecting co2.
One important question I have, a friend told me their poop is also toxic, do you know that to be true???
I have a new Amazon puffer and he is in a temporary set up but he does not seem happy at all he is swimming vertical and has refused to eat the blood worms I give him and these are the same worms they fed to him in the store what do I do is he cold?? Because I don't have a tank heater
Your temps should be in the mid 70’s, 76 is the generally accepted sweet spot
Can I have it in comunity tank?
Great info, Dan! I haven't kept Amazon puffers yet, but have other SE Asian species. Great fish!
Some constructive criticism, I feel like the sound effects were turned up to 80 on this production. Maybe tone em down a bit, it was a little distracting at times. Still very much enjoyed the video. 👍
Thanks for the constructive thoughts
DON’T EAT YOUR PUFFER!! 🤣☠️
Looking forward for my videos like this? In the future
GLOBO!!!!!
Not a big fan of the sound effects though I guess that is typical these days...
Yep. Seems that was a bust. Lots of folks have commented that they did not like the sound effects.
I added 6 buffer fish to my fish tank, innocently believing that my fry of galaxy rasboras would be just fine but it turn out that one of them began hunting them. I think buffers also might eat small fish that fit in their mouth.
I hated it! It is over produced and very annoying! I have watched all your videos to the end, but could not only watch 2 minutes. You could have done a video of all fish in this 2 days instead! I looked and you do not even have these Puffers in stock.
Agreed about the over produced part. I think I went overboard with the sound effects. Oh well...its all a learning curve. It will slowly get better.
I thought the whole thing was fascinating!