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Scientific Name: Tetraodon biocellatus

Common Name: Figure Eight Puffer

Location: Thailand, Sumatra, and Borneo

Max Size: 3”

Minimum Tank Requirement: 10g- single specimen

Ph: 7.8-8.0

Temperature:80-82 degrees Fahrenheit

Diet: Frozen bloodworms, snails, ghost shrimp, frozen brine shrimp, prawns, mussels, cockles, etc.

aggression: They are a pretty aggressive fish. Therefore only certain slow moving fish that don’t bring any attention to themselves should be used as tankmates.

Reproduction: N/A

Notes-part 1: The figure eight puffer does best in brackish water conditions. When they are young (1”) they should be kept in low end brackish water (1.004) as they grow to bigger (2”) raise the SG to 1.006. When they are full grown (3”) raise the SG to 1.008.

Notes-part 2: Your tank should be fully cycled before adding puffers. Puffers are very sensitive to water conditions.

Notes-part 3: Figure eights should have 10g a piece. This is because of the aggression level and because puffers have a huge bio-load.

Notes-part 4: The only tankmates that really work are bumble bee gobies and knight gobies. This is because they are both BW fish and don’t bring much attention to themselves. They also eat the same kind of foods.

Tips: When bought at a lfs (lfs=local fish store) they are usually kept in FW. This is because it cost the lfs more money then it is worth to make a brackish water environment for them. With this is mind start your tank as a FW tank. Then slowly raise the SG by .002 a week until .004 (this is depending on the size if you should stop at .004 or not. Read “Notes” for more information.) This will slowly acclimatize the fish and your tanks bacteria. FW bacteria is different from SW. So buy raising the SG slowly you give the SW bacteria a chance to catch up therefore your tank will not cycle again