freshwater puffers?

Now if there were only freshwater sharks (not the fake ones that are really catfish..) Does anyone know if those red-tailed "sharks" are really sharks, or not?

They aren't.

South American Puffers are such cute little guys, they are from the Amazon basin in South America so they are strictly freshwater. They are very small, but active Puffers so 10g is minimum for these guys. They can be a little aggressive, so you have to watch out who the tankmates are, you might end up with some missing fins, or even missing fish. One other problem is their teeth, you have to make sure they are getting hard, shell like food to grind their teeth, they are in many ways like a rodent, where they need to keep them trimmed. I feed dried krill, its pretty crunchy. You can also get shells and stuff. I recommend these fish because the are cute little buggers.

Oh and Green Spotted Puffers are indeed brackish fish. They live in coastal areas and live in or very close to freshwater as youth. This is to stay safe while they grow up. As they get larger and move into adulthood they move out into the reef. At this point in their lives they are saltwater fish, and will not respond to freshwater very well.

I am pretty upset; my puffer died. He got stuck in between a curved rock and gravel in the bottom of the tank; I am so bummed.

Aww, I'm sorry to hear that Jen. :( A puffer that I loved keeping (even though they are finicky little boogers) are dwarf puffers. If you think you might want to try again I suggest looking them up, they are characters.

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Aww, I'm sorry to hear that Jen. :( A puffer that I loved keeping (even though they are finicky little boogers) are dwarf puffers. If you think you might want to try again I suggest looking them up, they are characters.

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Hey! I have a happy update; he is not dead. He must have either been sleeping, or hypnotized, because I went in to take his "dead" body out, and he is swimming around just as before. Weird.. but I am glad that he is ok. :)

hahahaha puffers are goofy :P

and... there are no true sharks (in pet stores) who live in freshwater.

except in south america... there is a freshwater shark.

Great news.

As for the sharks, no, no freshwater sharks but I trained dogs for a guy in Indiana who had a 600gallon shark tank in the middle of his house. No 'big' sharks. Mainly just the smaller sand type sharks. They were awesome.

we have a pet store near us that has a shark tank... has a huge eel in it as well. very cool!