do green spotted puffers need air supply

pullins125 · 03-26-2008, 06:09 PM

i need to know if a green spotted puffer is an air breather. i wanna give mine to somebody wit a salt water tank and need to know if he needs an airstone or something to give him air. i know drarf puffers dont need air supply but not sure bout the green spotted. please let me know and if you can link me to a good page bout them that would also help. thanks

flamingo · 03-26-2008, 06:30 PM

Umm, excuse me... but.. duh.

pullins125 · 03-26-2008, 08:26 PM

excuse me but at least i asked b4 i killed da fish. and some fish dont need air like bettas gouramis and dwarf puffers. i know dwarfs didnt so it made me wonder bout the gsp. thanks for the info.

Daeorn · 03-26-2008, 10:57 PM

I'm trying to figure out what you mean.

You mean an airstone in addition to a filter providing oxygen to the water?

Or just airstone in general without filter?

Clerk · 03-27-2008, 10:49 AM

pullins125, pretty much all complex living creatures need air. whether its in the water, or in the air.

Dwarf puffers and labyrinths fish need oxygen too

kay-bee · 03-28-2008, 07:27 PM

Fish require dissolved oxygen (which isn't the same as "air", per se).

With adequate surface agitation to create gas exchange (provided by something as simple as the exiting outflow of water from a hang on back filter, return flow from a canister filter, etc), no additional 'aeration' devices, or bubblers are required.

Powerheads and other non-aeration water flow devices agitating the water surface work as well.

Example:

pullins125 · 03-29-2008, 05:48 PM

ok thanks for the help. i not real good wit this fish that part of the reason i getting rid of it. it going to an old teacher who has some brackish and saltwater tanks

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pullins125 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 19 Posts: 145 User Feedback: (0)	do green spotted puffers need air supply i need to know if a green spotted puffer is an air breather. i wanna give mine to somebody wit a salt water tank and need to know if he needs an airstone or something to give him air. i know drarf puffers dont need air supply but not sure bout the green spotted. please let me know and if you can link me to a good page bout them that would also help. thanks

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pullins125 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 19 Posts: 145 User Feedback: (0)	excuse me but at least i asked b4 i killed da fish. and some fish dont need air like bettas gouramis and dwarf puffers. i know dwarfs didnt so it made me wonder bout the gsp. thanks for the info. __________________ 150 gallon african tank 3 Six-striped Frontosa (Unsexed) 2 Black Calvus (1 Male/1 Female) 2 Red Borelli (1 Male/1 Female) 2 Haplochromis redtail (2 Male/1 Female) 3 Salousi (1 Male/2 Female) 4 Orange Blotch Zebra (2 Male/2 Female) 2 Leleui (Unsexed) 1 Julidochromis Marliera 1 Ropefish 1 Syndontis Featherfin Catfish 1 Redtail Leopard Pleco(L-114)

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Clerk Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 459 User Feedback: (0)	pullins125, pretty much all complex living creatures need air. whether its in the water, or in the air. Dwarf puffers and labyrinths fish need oxygen too __________________ Four Tanks 55 Gallon - Planted Display Tank 50 Gallon Nursery 20 Gallon - High-Light Planted Breeder 20 L Gallon - Newt Paludarium

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kay-bee Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tampa, FL Age: 39 Posts: 76 User Feedback: (0)	Fish require dissolved oxygen (which isn't the same as "air", per se). With adequate surface agitation to create gas exchange (provided by something as simple as the exiting outflow of water from a hang on back filter, return flow from a canister filter, etc), no additional 'aeration' devices, or bubblers are required. Powerheads and other non-aeration water flow devices agitating the water surface work as well. Example: __________________ 4 african cichlid tanks 4 saltwater aquariums Last edited by kay-bee; 03-28-2008 at 07:34 PM.

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pullins125 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 19 Posts: 145 User Feedback: (0)	ok thanks for the help. i not real good wit this fish that part of the reason i getting rid of it. it going to an old teacher who has some brackish and saltwater tanks

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