The BIGGEST pufferfish (MBU Puffer) Everything you should know about them and busters story!

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9 ай бұрын

I finally got the opportunity to make a profile on the magnificent MBU Pufferfish. an absolute gentle giant that can be kept in an XXXXL community fish tank.
Buster is a giant freshwater Pufferfish that resides ‪@MaidenheadAquatics‬ Taunton store. He lives with a mixture of stingrays, cichlids, catfish and larger characins. He has always been a good pufferfish; never eating any of his aquarium mates.
As mentioned in the video, there are many other species of pufferfish that are more suitable for your home aquariums such as: pigmy, Amazon, Congo, and Redeye to name a few.
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@pagewhite8177 9 ай бұрын

I’ve always been fascinated by Buster when I’ve seen him in your and MD’s videos so thank you for featuring him. I love all your little graphics on this one, well done! Thanks Matt.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Awww thank you!!

@krawlspace 9 ай бұрын

Love me some Buster!!! Best scene was during the Pea Puffer tank build and he thought you were gonna feed him 100 little puffers and he started to freak out! Had me cracking up!

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Hahahaha and he would have tried

@valeriee9532 9 ай бұрын

I love to see you in the shop, at your home, as well as with MD! I’m so glad to see that your channel is growing. Keep up the great work, Matt!!! 🌱🐠❤️ p.s. Tell Buster, “Hi from🇺🇸🫶”

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I will certainly say hi and give him some extra food from you.

@SelbyRadabah 20 күн бұрын

Enjoy your old shows too!

@LDragonhardt 9 ай бұрын

These things are the coolest. Love seeing puffer fish when at aquariums, they always look so cute!

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Aren't they just!

@Xeract 9 ай бұрын

This channel is great Matt - I'm glad you're going to still be doing the informative videos along with the exciting stuff with MD. I'm in Surrey, but i'm seriously considering a day trip to Taunton soon to see Buster and the tanks you've setup with MD in the shop haha. We've got some decent shops around here but nothing that compares to your one!

@alazarzeczna 9 ай бұрын

Yay new video! So happy you took a plunge and upload more videos! With your experience I totally trust anything you say 😂

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thank you definitely more to come!

@JiyuuNK 9 ай бұрын

Matt sounds like a proud dad showing off their kid. And I love it hahaha

@geertm4493 9 ай бұрын

Keep up the good work matt! Big fan from the netherlands

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

@rettag2020 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for all that information, Matt. I had seriously considered getting puffer fish. Now, I don't think I would've been able to give them a proper life. Always happy to see Buster in your videos ❤️

@garageaquatics2023 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, Matt! Enjoy the weekend!

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, you too!

@LSaunders264 9 ай бұрын

Buster has always been one of my favourite fish, it’s great to see him have his own video 🐡🐡

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Yeah he definitely needed his own video.

@jacquelinemcmillan2793 8 ай бұрын

I love buster hes amazing glad yous give him the care he needs & deserves would love to see him upgraded to an even bigger tank hes earned it haha

@Shakodancer16 9 ай бұрын

Buster and Murphy (aquarium coop) would be best friends I just know it

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Hahahaha I'll try and get buster a passport

@leahnichol6665 9 ай бұрын

@@FishShopMatt😂😂😂❤

@hkk3656 5 ай бұрын

I was just in Aquarium Co-op in Edmonds, Washington. (February 2024). Murphy wasn't in the tank. Sign said Murphy wasn't feeling well. 😢

@jwilde642 4 ай бұрын

Poor Murphy went to his fathers in Clamhalla. Like Buster, he was getting old, and it was just his time. @@hkk3656

@marct138 2 ай бұрын

RIP Buster and Murphy 😭

@cherylmartin9994 9 ай бұрын

I love puffers!! Was at the lfs yesterday and they had porcupine, dogface, figure 8 and spotted😍 I was in heaven😃 thank you for letting us know more about Buster and the Mbu pufferfish. He's adorable

@lynnrobertson4657 9 ай бұрын

Thankyou for your video I loved watching buster

@Babyluthi 9 ай бұрын

Aw thank you so much for posting this. I have been really curious about Buster🐟🙂💙Edit. Now that I have watched. Fantastic vid. Great info. Love your humour. Thanks for sharing. 💙From NZ🙂

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@b1ak3 9 ай бұрын

sooo freaking cool!! his teeth are so silly i love them 🤣 i’ve had my teeth shaved down by my orthodontist and it was NOT a good experience 😭

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Trying to hold a pufferfish still whilst shaving their teeth would be tricky hahaha.

@jamiehawkins1167 9 ай бұрын

@@FishShopMattlooking for some advice . I have a angel fish with pop eye it's healthy enough still eats fine is there anything I can do to help it out. ?

@jamiehawkins1167 9 ай бұрын

@littlemidwestrebornsdolls 9 ай бұрын

If I won a huge lottery I would get a puffer like Buster. Love your channel. 🐡🐡🐡

@MrLunatico13 9 ай бұрын

big fan of your personality and humor! greetings all the way from fredericksburg, Virginia, USA

@kbye5323 9 ай бұрын

Very informative! Thanks!

@LonniesWorld007 9 ай бұрын

Yesssssss love your videos Matt

@user-hq6ds6ty8g 9 ай бұрын

Matt, you not only have great content, but you have the personality to keep people interested. Glad to not only learn from you here, but on MD videos as well. Keep up the passion.

@user-hq6ds6ty8g 9 ай бұрын

The pufferfish and stingray tank is my favorite.

@marymendez4178 9 ай бұрын

Is a wonderful thing y'all both teamed up, it's even better that you are still here in this channel. Always give us a tour of the shop with new fish arrives and so on.

@nita_Entertains 9 ай бұрын

I absolutely love the amount of fish knowledge Matt has. ❤ not to mention he’s hilariously funny

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Katie says you can't say I'm funny as I'll start believing it and then I'll be unbearable at home hahahaha.

@mariastarr564 9 ай бұрын

Great content!

@xixth_legion446 9 ай бұрын

Popped in to the Taunton maidenhead the other day for a browse after seeing yours and mds videos, my youngest thought buster was hilarious with his 'big teefs'!

@MandyJane123700 9 ай бұрын

Buster is so cool! I'm glad you're still doing informational videos. It's very good to have all the info possible before getting any sort of fish, but especially the ones that will get really big, or need special care. I'm also glad the "tank busters" are getting a bit more hard to find. I think if you really want a big fish, you will be able to find one, but the chain stores should be more careful about selling them. Just a few years ago they'd sell a common pleco to someone with a 20 gallon tank!

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree with you more! Tank busters should certainly only be sold when someone can care for them long term!

@plyr6369 9 ай бұрын

They still are selling people common plecos with 20g tanks. I deal with it at least once a week working at my lfs. So many surrendered, and so many people still buying them tiny. luckily we have a lot of customers with ponds so we can offload them someway.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

@@plyr6369 it's a nightmare! It's something that has definitely got less in our area. Maybe that will be one of my next videos warning people off tank busters.

@MandyJane123700 9 ай бұрын

@@plyr6369 Oh, that's terrible. I inherited a common pleco when my sister moved in, and then moved out. She had it in a 75 gallon (much better than 20, but still not big enough!). I ended up setting up a 300 gallon stock tank outside for it. Now I just have to figure out how to keep the temperature warm enough when we have a cold snap here in central Florida. Hopefully I can insulate it, somehow.

@danm8004 9 ай бұрын

@@MandyJane123700use a pond heater in the winter

@jamie2424lfc 9 ай бұрын

Nice to see the fish files back 😀 Shame never made an Instagram account for him 😂

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Hahahaha you could always make one!

@jasonseaward8506 5 ай бұрын

Id love to see a video about those eels that you had showed to MD a ways back. Those seem like very interesting creatures lol

@martinsadler427 9 ай бұрын

Good luck to you with all what your doing Matt thanks for the videos

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thank you sooo much!

@musicwinder_yt 9 ай бұрын

Nice video 👍 cool fish

@darrylmoore5847 9 ай бұрын

A nice video on a wonderful fish.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

@fahiem712 9 ай бұрын

keep up the great work Matt ! big fan from South Arica.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Amazing, hey 👋 thanks for watching!

@cherylbeswick7327 8 ай бұрын

Buster 😍😍😍

@GotAwayWithMurder 9 ай бұрын

Love this series Matt! If you could please wear a mic going forward so it’s easier to understand.

@kathyjohnson1260 9 ай бұрын

Very Beautiful

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@carolyn1464 9 ай бұрын

Awesome, love seeing Buster!! I can relate to those who stop by the shop just to see him, if I lived close I would too 🐡Thanks for another great video, so exciting watching you and MD and your success with your channels, congratulations and keep the videos coming 🤗🤗

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@glennk.7348 9 ай бұрын

I saw Buster in person last year. He’s awesome!

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Amazing! He is an absolute dude!

@gigi3242 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Matt. Take care, be well.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, you too!

@bec2137 9 ай бұрын

we stan Buster

@tinchytarantula 9 ай бұрын

Buster is awesome Matt so Chill and cool definitely think you should consider some buster merchandise

@deanoliv2880 9 ай бұрын

Good video

@dondunning5296 9 ай бұрын

Glad you still get to hang with Buster. That was my first question when you guys made the announcement. Very informative video. Audio was a little quiet though. Can't wait for more!

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Yeah still get to hang with him from time to time. The audio was because I was trying my new mic and may have had the setting wrong. Hopefully better for next time hahaha.

@dondunning5296 9 ай бұрын

@@FishShopMatt it's all good. I really enjoy your content regardless. Keep up the great work!!

@FranNoesse 9 ай бұрын

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@hkk3656 5 ай бұрын

Have you ever seen him puff up? I had a spotted puffer (much smaller type) that did it once. Amazing!!! I have no idea why. I also didn't know he ate snails. I heard a cruching sound, and within a couple of weeks, they were all gone. 😂

@Krishnath.Dragon 9 ай бұрын

I can honestly say, that the teeth thing is the sole reason I've never kept pufferfish.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Yeah I can understand that

@MrJinngers 9 ай бұрын

But if they grow all the time like rodent's teeth, they're more like nails than teeth aren't they?

@denisetilley3559 9 ай бұрын

I would LOVE. Buster T-shirt!!! With all the different Ty’s you and Matt wear, you have to have a Buster one!! Send me info and I’ll buy one 😂

@BennyRob85 9 ай бұрын

Youll be 100k subs in no time. Love the vids Running round a field trying to chase two French fries made me lol interesting analogy 😂

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Kind of you to say, thank you! Hahaha it's just what came into my head at the time.

@BennyRob85 9 ай бұрын

@FishShopMatt well keep them coming lol Also watched a puffer fish teeth trimming video after this. Not a job I'd want to do!!! Good luck with the whole MD collab, hopefully helps your channel push on to the next level

@c.miner573 9 ай бұрын

I'm currently growing out a mbu puffer to go in my "under construction" 10x4x6 aquarium. Hoping he'll get as big as buster eventually

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Oh my word! That's the type of tank you need! Be sure to setup an insta or KZfaq channel so you can tag me in the build!

@c.miner573 9 ай бұрын

If I'm completely honest being on camera isnt me 😂 the majority is built I'm just waiting on the glass to arrive. I'll definitely send you some pics of the process and vids when it's done

@DaffCookie 9 ай бұрын

I love Buster ❤ Think it's only Maidenhead Aquatics that are mad enough for large tanks. My local ( Thornbury ) has a koi pond inside 😂

@judyallinson1281 9 ай бұрын

Matt microphone ❤

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Hahaha yeah new mic and noisy fish shop didn't like each other.

@ghostebyte 9 ай бұрын

I love Buster and I wish to be able to visit him one day, but that's more than likely never going to happen because I live in Germany. But Pufferfish are amazing! I recently got some Dwarf Pufferfish and I absolutely love them! They seem happy. But MAN do they eat a lot :O I started raising my own food for them to not have to go and get some life food so often anymore (I still will to get some variation in, but it helps to have a stash at home). Could you maybe do a video on Dwarf Pufferfish one day? It would be really cool to learn more about their background from you

@simianlife5949 9 ай бұрын

I have no desire to ever keep a mbu (nor sting rays or other giant fish), but it's cool to learn about them and to see them on display in places where they can be kept humanely, such as at Maidenhead. After having seen Buster on this channel and at MD for awhile now, it's great to get to know him a bit better.

@DjPsYcOtIc 9 ай бұрын

Cheers

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@htimSnaeS 9 ай бұрын

Love me some fish files! Can we get a men's FSM t-shirt in the shop, please? I need one.

@stephenchen1002 9 ай бұрын

Love the videos! My only minor complaint would be the audio being a little faint and muffle-y but keep these coming! :)

@bloatus7611 9 ай бұрын

I don't think you'll ever get the farenheit thing but mostly because no matter how often it comes up, I cannot keep the celsius on track in my head. What I'm thinking is keeping a base conversion number in my head to avoid of the math of it all. Interestingly enough, I've found that describing tanks in centimeters harder to keep track of despite us using cm here in the states it just does not translate well.

@dylanedwards5348 9 ай бұрын

Please can you cover Schoutedeni Tetradon puffers

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

We plan to do something with them soon hopefully!

@xiolv 9 ай бұрын

Love to learn with you. Could you please do a "fish file" on the sparkling gourami( Trichopsis Pumilus)?

@Diago767 7 ай бұрын

Thanks Matt! given that most of us will never have one it was really cool learning about the species. one question I was expecting you to be asked all the time is, do they ever actually puff up? or is that unique to their salt water cousins?

@TheGreatToutatis 9 ай бұрын

i JUST commented on MD that i wanted to see some puffers. Consider me satisfied.

@Matthew_Henley 9 ай бұрын

Hopefully he has a few good years left in him ❤

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

I do hope so!!!

@allonewordcaps 9 ай бұрын

Great to see you videos. I guess I would say is to be more specific about not getting one of these very expensive time consuming fish.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Yeah very very expensive!

@allonewordcaps 9 ай бұрын

@@FishShopMatt I’ll take a beta fish any day of the week instead of that sweet guy. :)

@scrubjay93 9 ай бұрын

"He takes on a male persona" = his fishnouns are he/him. 😊 Love the deep dive on fish species.

@adampayton897 9 ай бұрын

Buster merch?? 😊

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

oOoOO maybe!

@suffysdave 9 ай бұрын

Hey Matt, love your work! But take care of your audio😊

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Yeah unfortunately had a new microphone and it decided to not like the background noise of the shop. Sorted it for the next video!

@deborahcollis9814 9 ай бұрын

Can you please do a video on tissue culture plants, e.g., when they are still too small to plant? How to store? We have only had them in my country for 4 month and I have found I get spotty results. One of the crypt varies I didn't get a single plant to grow where the anbuis nana pettie I was to get 4 plants from it.

@CraigsOverijse 9 ай бұрын

Hi Matt the sound quality of the video has a huge amount of hiss maybe tweak your mic setting. Good luck eith the new venture with MD

@wendydix5534 9 ай бұрын

❤

@thehairywoodsman5644 9 ай бұрын

Howdy from Texas ! could I feed a mbu armadillos ? they have a shell....

@nickyfryett8125 3 ай бұрын

I have a tank bred mbu puffer

@dylanmason1867 9 ай бұрын

Great videos matt as always can i ask you about a tank you did with md ten months ago it's the 3ft tanganiykan tank !! with the stocking you put a lot of cypchromis in there everyone i speak to says no you need a 4 ft tank !!! is that tank 3x2x2 ??? i'm torn between getting the oase styleine 175 or an aquaone tank whic is narrow but 4ft long . my only concern is the build quality of the horizon 182 . i'd really apprciatte your thoughts . Keep up the good work

@noodlechild666 9 ай бұрын

Does he ever puff up? I read somewhere that its good for them to do it on occasion.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

We've seen him puff up about 4 or 5 times in the 8 ish years we've had him. Underwater puffing up is fine as sometimes I think it's almost like a stretch. If he's scared or stressed and puffs up it's not so good. Also if he puffs up out of water it can be deadly.

@bradleyxavier4066 2 ай бұрын

As far as I know (from my experience) most species of freshwater puffers will lay eggs within the first 2-5 years. If you don't see eggs after 5 years it's a male. I've had 2 female fahakas that laid infertile eggs shortly after 2 years old. Females will lay eggs regardless of if there's a male around.

@VeNoMsEpItApH 9 ай бұрын

MORE FISH FILES, please. Leopard Pleco fish file! (When you have time).

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

oOoOO definitely one I want to keep!

@VeNoMsEpItApH 9 ай бұрын

@@FishShopMatt They are so hardy, colorful and stay small. Highly recommended

@stoneysscapes7544 9 ай бұрын

Hey Matt , I was wondering if you could come up with a rough estimate for the cost of feeding Buster over a 30 day period. It's not going to be exact I realize as I have more respect for you to hold your estimate for anything other than something that I have been curious about from watching Cory feeding Ladybird. My days having anything larger than a freak of nature SAE are thankfully not even an option for me and I have been enjoying the Bettas together with the typical community fish much more than I ever did when I was wondering wtf I was thinking when my 3" Jardini was close to being 3' in a 6' tank . My Black Neon Tetra's have been enjoying the old feeding habits and I will be doing more target feeding in the future lol. I am assuming that old habits etc. Something simple even like how many days a week are they fed or if you need to fast how many days

@matthartshorn9483 9 ай бұрын

I remember the group of them that came in. He ended up being chosen to try and feed up and bulk him up to be kept in the shop. Why he was the chosen one tho i cant remember.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Hahaha the chosen one! Yeah I really can't remember.

@matthartshorn9483 9 ай бұрын

@@FishShopMatt you ever seen a puffer kept with a turtle? I quite like the sound of that combo lol

@georgweyand88 9 ай бұрын

Matt, what are the piranha looking fish with the vertical dark stripe?

@Chompchompyerded 9 ай бұрын

No sharp rocks. So I guess I couldn't toss my obsidian pocketknife in there.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Hahahaha no would be a bit dangerous

@ovebrinkmann3065 9 ай бұрын

ask MD if you can use his microphone please

@koreypetrovski6976 7 ай бұрын

What size tank is he in

@GreenGaiety 9 ай бұрын

Buster stories.... share please.

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Hahahaha it was the night before Christmas and all through the house nothing was stirring not even a puffer...

@K3ll3r03 9 ай бұрын

With him being a puffer fish, has he ever done the thing? Puffing up i mean?

@FishShopMatt 9 ай бұрын

Yeah about 4 or 5 times we've seen him puff. Most of the time for no reason hahaha

@bishop999 5 ай бұрын

Comment 👍

@TheLennyT 9 ай бұрын

Why does the puffer look more British than any other I've seen 0:06

@jantzenlippincott2785 6 ай бұрын

Order me 1 I got a 5 gallon tank

@DoorsToHideBehind156 9 ай бұрын

No one can tell which sex they are?? I'm assuming no one has bred them in captivity then. Lol the second after writing this comment you confirmed my statement. That's a bit alarming they haven't been bred in captivity, what happens when they inevitably become endangered? 😢

@jantzenlippincott2785 6 ай бұрын

Nah I'm jk I would love to own one of these puffers one day I told u I wanna be like u wheb I grow up matt! Lol what are some smaller alternatives to these giant puffer? Let us know

@nouieg667 9 ай бұрын

has he ever "puffed" himself in there?

@RicksAquariumsuk 9 ай бұрын

I've owned my mbu in my 10x4x3 for the last 8 months since he was 3inchs,I've been told they all have different characters, what I mean is he sits at the bottom in the corner sulking doesn't move unless feeding or when the lights go off ,I see so many mbu interacting with there owners and moving about, so bloody frustrating