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Species Name: Tetraodon nigroviridis

Common Name: Green Spotted Puffer

Size: 6"

pH: 7.8-8.0

Minimum Recommended Tank Size: 30 gallons for single specimen

Native Location: Asia, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand

Temperature: 80-82F

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

Breeding: Rarely breeds in aquaria.

Aggression: This species is very aggressive and rarely tolerate tankmates.

Notes: The Green Spotted puffer does best in brackish water to full marine (as adults). At 1" they should be in a SG of 1.004, at 2" an SG of 1.010, at 3" they should be an SG of 1.015, at 4" they should be in an SG of 1.018, at 5-6" an SG of 1.022-24 (full marine).

Your tank should be fully cycled before adding puffers. Puffers are very sensitive to water conditions.

Green spotted puffers tolerate very few tankmates. They should be kept by themselves or with Ceylon puffers.

When bought at a LFS (LFS=local fish store) they are usually kept in FW. This is because it costs the LFS more money than 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 (whther or not to stop at .004 depends on size; see other notes) This will allow the fish and your tanks bacteria to acclimate slowly. FW bacteria is different from SW. So by raising the SG slowly you give the SW bacteria a chance to catch up and prevents your tank from cycling again.