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5 gallons would be my min.

I've heard DP's called pea puffers before so they very well could be. If never seen GSP come in that small but who knows they very well could be....

Most of those above mentioned strike me as being rather big so the dwarves might have some trouble or even be scared of something of that size, snails the size of their eye normally are chrunched. bigger sized snails tend to be picked out of the shells i find most LFS will give or sell you...

I wouldnt suggest more than one type of puffer in a tank becuase some are more agressive than others which means the docile ones will be picked on a great a deal. What kind of FW puffers are you talking about? Dwarfs and South Americans? forgot about congos but DP and SAs are the common FW...

Try getting some brine shrimp (live if you can) as it isnt very good staple diet but it will jump start their appietite. Mine love small pest snails, you can normally get those from any lfs as they are unwanted for general little to no charge. I would really suggest heavily planting the tank...

its not a pecking order, they've been established for a long time int his tank, they are pressing against each other, spawning activity, and chasing each other around

anyone know how they act when they breed? i have a few and the male seems to be chasing a female around and they appear to be spawning repeatedly but not too sure anyone have experience?

I have been doing some research and have seen alot of talk about using an R.O unit but i was wondering , Ken and afew others, how do you do your water changes? I think that doing daily water changes with my water would not be the best idea because it would cause too much pH variation I was...

starting to take an interest to marine tanks and was wondering what are some of your folks diy set ups ie filtration, lighting i think one of the best parts of a tank is getting it set up and making things such as hardware its alot more satisfying when you've made the purty tank as opposed to...

I have 3 (started with 5 but lich did a number on my tank :-( ) and they dont both a sole , hardly themselves it quite interesting to watch lately it seems my male is chasing the other 2 females around with all his colors showing

I'd have to agree, puffers are generally pretty nippy and will turn those purty fins into a full belly over night If it is a figure 8 i do believe those guys do best in BW

those some type of tetras in the smallest tank ( not the betta tank) are emperor tetras :P

eeee yeah i agree they grow damn big and need a small pond to live happily, so 2 in a 55 g is pretty rough

i thought so, but like i mentioned better safe than sorry I even suggested to this person (someone onthe forums a while back) that the fry may have died and the shrimp was cleaning up but they said that they saw it catch the fry and start eating who knows?! i'll try getting them some shrimp...

Anyone know if they ghost shrimp can hur thte puffers? i heard someone say that they've seen a ghost catch and eat guppy fry and i was wondering if they could be a threat to my dwarfs because they dont seem too agressive (yet) just wanted to double check this i'm pretty sure they would turn...

i have a afew of those, cute guys! when i first started keeping fish i bought only one julie cory and it seemed to be happy but after doing some research i bought 3 more, 2 panda, 1 julie bringing me up to 4 in total the original went crazy! he (i think) was barbelling them and swimming around...

they will eat the waffers eventually they may be full from the algae that was in your tank or they may be settling ( the newer ones) i know mine ate waffers happily and if i recall correctly, lots of others did as well some are more active during the night so they might be eating then while...

they seem to be doing great they're even hunting some of the baby snails that have gone wild in the tank

i placed an order for 5 dwarf puffs and today they came in! they're so cute , i have 5 of them in a 20g and they seem to be doing great but get this, the lfs was insisting that the were brackish!!!!! i tried to tell them that they're fresh water but they just didnt seem to listen poor guys i...

there are frogs that do just that! aquatic frogs , you may want to try posting this under the invertebrate + amphibians section though or have a moderator move this topic there as you'll get alot more replys inch worm is a great person for froggie advice :hyper:

anyone know how long it takes them to reach adulthood ie around 1" ?

I have a pond that if my common or sailfin grow out of my 55g ( 100g later perhaps ) they can go in in with some koi and feeder goldies that are monsters i'm sure they'd love that

hmm well i may make a crab tank, that would be in my best interest , depending if i can get my hands on this tank but i think i'll wait and theres no way i'd put a crab with puffers as they would make a horrible half eaten monster out of him!

I was looking at some red claw crabs and i think there were also some fidler crarbs( a name along those lines) and i was thinking would they work out in a 55g community tank consisting of: amano shrimp ( might be eaten! by crabs now that i think of it!! :-( ) , 3 tiger barbs, 1 emperor tetra, 1...

I was very interested in setting up a FW crab tank, ken do you have your red claws in FW or BW?

great that will work out very well! i have sand substrate with lots of cabes/plants so it should do ok in those conditions

i dont think it is, the one i saw looked alot like it but i think it was bigger than 3 inches i'll go check it out they claimed they had 2 but hell if i could find it, i just grazed over that tank but if its still there i'll go ask them i doubt they know anything though most of them dont at...

i was wondering if this would work, i've done some research and it seems they get large enough (around 5-6') so it may not be wise to put one of these in a 20g

Saw a puffer called a neon puffer in the pet store and i was wondering if it was fw or brackish, tank requirements, etc heres a link ot the only picture i could find about it according to this its also called a bleeding heart puffer I think at the pet store it was in fw...

I was thinking about maybe changing a tank over to brackish water for some green spotted puffers and was wondering do i have to condition my plants? and what about inverts how do they deal with brackish conditions? i probably should be asking that last part in the invert section but might as...

well i moved them to the 55g community along with a new germany ram they all get along well due to the size and decor of the tank but the have their odd scuffles they put their fins out, tilt their nose down a bit and kind of hover then one either backs off or one chases the other its...

rams are pretty good community fish except when they breed they can take over that 10g tank pretty good i wouldnt put too much else in that 10g with the rams but i tend to keep my tanks less crowded its less risky that way but rams go with almost any community fish, very purty fish though :alien:

i have a 55g with 3 tiger barbs, 3 pink danios, 2 zebra danios, 1 common plec, 1 sailfin plec, 2 bolivian rams, 1 germany ram, 4 corys and 1 emperior tetra they all do very well the tank is highly planted with lots of stuff to break up the line of sighttigers dont bother anyone but themselves...

tell them sternly "No! bad fish!"

send them this way!!

I had planned to turn my 55g into a dwarf puffer tank but after some consideration and thought about trying to get it heavly planted i changed plans to turn a 20 g into a puff tnak. The amount of size compared to that of the 55g is less so it will be alittle cheaper on the wallet to do the...

sounds great! cant wait for it to warm up and start growing some although west nile was and probably will be a news related issue this summer i dont think its something to go bananas over

Odd, well i had no intension of advertising i was merely doing research on dwarf puffers and found that this site was very well done and aided alot as there arent many who reply to puffer questions here so i thought other people might also be insearch of a 'one stop dwarf puffer site' when...

My question is will dwarf puffers eat mosquito larvae as it is pretty easy to culture tons of those where i live has anyone had any history with these two going together?

Hm i had no idea either was a problem