How to Take Care of Saltwater Puffers: Species Spotlight with Hilary 

I have the Valentini dwarf puffer and love her personality. She is so much fun to watch. She comes to the front of the tank when I come around and so surprised to watch how they sleep at night.

You forgot to mention that puffers are BIGTIME jumpers. I had a young Green Spotted that spent a whole night tablesurfing. When I got up in the morning there was my puff all dry and crunchy on the table. But never cout out a puffer. As I was about to send him on his final swim I thought I saw a tiny gill movement. Since he was still 100% freshwater I put him in a cup of RO water and watched. Sure enough he was barely breathing! After about 4 hours he started to flip his tail a little. He lost one eye in the adventure, but after a few months he got back to swimming upright. He ended up doing just fine for another 6 years.

I have a 20 gallon with a blue spotted puffer and two clownfish...They do great together

I have a saddle valentini in a 35g tank and LOVE HER she has such a great personality and even begs me for food however I also I like clams and have a "cage" for my maxima in the corner so she cant eat it

I had a porcupine puffer and loved the heck out of him. He would play in my fingers and follow me around. When he wanted to play he would swim in tight circles. His favorite food was feeder guppies.

Hilary, I had no idea there were so many different puffers! Toby's are my favorite!

You are so informative...I love your videos

I kept green spotted puffers in a brackish tank. Living by the beach in Florida allowed me to feed them sand fleas, fiddler crabs, and coquina clams both live and frozen. I also fed them snails from my freshwater tanks and live bait shrimp that I had left over from fishing. I would put clumps of guppy grass in tank with snails in it which they would hunt. Had some guppy babies hitchhike on the grass that grew up and cleaned up after the puffers. Lol

Wow, what is that giant hermit? Looks awesome. I just got a box/burr puffer and he's awesome.

Best Pufferfish video on RU-vid! Beeing a freshwater keeper for 30 years, my dream is to keep a Salwater tank, Porcupine, dogfaced, or The ones with the thick spikes. Which would you reccomend for a 180 Gallon?

I live in Indonesia and I love finding blue spotted tobies in tide pools. All the fish dart away and hide but those tobies don't care at all. They just swim around like they know nobody is going to bother them.

Love puffers. Had a dogface puffer for many years. His favorite food was clams in the shell. I would crack the shell and let him go to town. You have to have good filtration for them. They put quite a bioload on your tank.

I got a dogface & pork puffers in a 220 both are so cool

I have a valentini puffer and I love her I just want her to live her best life she’s our first puffer and a baby so I’m so anxious to do everything right for her

I have a clam so no bueno..... love Hillary’s vids. She should do a deep-dive on buying, treating and keeping a specific fish type like my Goldflake Angel as an example. She has the credentials and a great presentation. Her angel vid was the first time I’ve heard I can fresh water dip an angel. You get her and Humblefish onscreen together and you have a classic.

I’m looking at a leopard toby in my future 75 gallon

I always move my puffers with buckets, never net them out. Why take the risk, and they get a lot less stressed. :-)

I had kept a Porcupine puffer she is right they are such fun fish.yeah Fowler tank only did fine with my Lionfishs. I wish i could keep the small valentini puffer but reef safe is important.

Another amazing video! I'd get a porcupine but I love inverts way too much... and I don't have a big tank. But I love my clams and therefore I would avoid getting a Copperband and therefore I need to have peppermint shrimps to ensure no aptasia. I also don't put such a premium on personality (maybe that will change) - so I have a fish list with the fish I really want and can go together ;)

Great video. Thank you.

Ive had a figure 8 puffer and currently i just got a porcupine puffer this morning

I have kept Mbu puffer, dragon puffer, pea puffers. Rescued a fahaka puffer… would love a dog face one day and some type of Toby puffer

My green spot liked clams, bluespot like nori

I have a 90 gallon reef tank, i am emptying out to make it a puffer fish tank, do you think i could get away with a dog face puffer or 1 porcupine puffer?

I've had a narrow lined puffer and now I have a Valentini

hi ! amazing video !!! how many liters for diodon holocanthus ?

I have never had a puffer but I did have a Yellow spotted box fish. The most characteristic fish I have ever owned. When it was hungry and I was near the tank it would spit water over the rim of the tank, in my direction! Such a cool fish. Sadly it stressed out when I was transferring him to an upgraded tank, wiping out most of my fish including himself. :(. Do the puffers have the same type of personality?

erm actually the arothron meleagris (guineafowl) can also be grey and brown.... and the stars and stripes puffer is actually an arothron hispidus

Can I put more then 2 puffers in my salt water tank

Just got a Valintini

I do have a Toby so friendly I told I can get another soon he see it star biting the bag

Gosh I wish puffers were safe in reefs😭😭 I want one so baddd

I had a dwarf puffer

They love mix

Can you keep any puffer with clown fish & live rock /corals? New to saltwater tanks .. so excuse me if it’s a dumb question.

I wish I could keep a puffer, I love my corals way too much 😅

green spotted puffer, about 2 years now

I have one fish still alive in my reef after a velvet outbreak. I am unsure if I can restock as the fish was never removed and cannot be removed.

I had a grey and almost blue dogface

The only puffers I've kept is pea puffers.

I'd love a huge porcupine

My porcupine puffer wont eat anything but Krill and PEmysis. Picky fish....

I have 10 pea puffers, 6 figure 8s and I've just reserved a valentini

I name mine cheese puff, puff daddy, Ms. Puffs, puffington

I have a porcupine pufferfish

I am Mike Foote, and I had a super cute Dpgface puffer named ( puff Daddy ) he could have been a little puppy he was a friend and fellow part of the family lived 10 years old and sadly 😭 2 years ago passed away old age and I was unable to find a replacement for him until today and my friend and my serviceman who cleaning my 120 Galon

Aww forgot about the green spot and blue spot.

I want one so bad by the wife won't give up her reef lol

Valentini ate everything so I have more careful next time

What’s her full name again? She’s beautiful, just saying lol

it will EAT all my fish - it's like having a shark in your tank