Are Sure Puffers Are Species Only Tank?

[fishy55599]

Because i brought 2 puffers today, and they have been out of the bag for about 5 hours, and they havent killed the 2 herqulin rasboras.
So maybe you can keep them with others.

 

[england]

Thats no where near long enough to establish if they will get on or not,weeks/months even years will on prove something like this, what type of puffer are you refering too? Dwarf puffers are really only one of a few that a fresh water. So please ensure you know which ones you have, have a look in the oddball section,lots more info there,with a few videos recently posted by one of our members,shows the aggrestion of some puffers...look forward to some pictures if you have some
My old dwarf puffers did ok in a tank with bristlenose plecs and ticto barbs

 

[fishy55599]

ill get you a pic

just give me a few mins

 

[fishy55599]

Cannot find batterys, will try get a decent one from phone tomorrow when it is lighter cause its too dark to get one now (ive tried.)

 

[hillmar77]

From what I know is I've seen a group of figure 8 at the lfs with there tail fins all chewed up( these were adult size) so if you plan to keep puffers they need alot of space! Dwarf puffers are one of the most aggressive puffers out there....I've seen them stand up to fish 3 times there size!
So I'm not calling them aggressive but they are definitely fin nippers!

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

If you have not done already, you need to provide a densely furnitured (real/fake plants, tunnels etc.) tank for most puffers...

Not only will this give them something intresting to explore, but it will also provide plenty of "line of sight" barriers should one puffer try to bully or harrass the other continually.

In the immediate term you need to be sure that your puffers are either freshwater or brackish. If the latter, you need to know how your LFS kept them (some brackish puffers are imported and displayed in fresh, so a sudden change to brackish in your tank will stress them) and if they were kept in brakish conditions, what salinity are they accustomed to.

 

[fishy55599]

The tank has all that, i was told it was freshwater.

 

[Katch]

Increasingly due to farming the brackish/freshwater cross overs are becomming more and more hardy in freshwater - figure 8s GSPs etc.

I'd say regardless of what type of puffers you have they will eat your harlequins once they settle in - and any other fish you put with them for that matter with the exception of some loaches and catfish.

 

[nmonks]

Sorry, this is utter rubbish. All, and I repeat ALL, the GSPs and figure-8 puffers on sale are wild caught. They remain brackish water fish. Any retailer who tells you that a GSP or figure-8 puffer on sale is a "specially-bred freshwater one" is either [a] lying or ignorant.

For what it's worth, figure-8s sometimes get along fine with each other and fast-moving companions. They aren't an especially nippy species, though they can be both nippy and territorial at times. GSPs are more overtly destructive. Wild fish appear to eat fins and scales as part of their natural diet, along with invertebrates and plant material. So in captivity they are very likely to view and fish and/or plants as an all-you-can-eat buffet. GSPs are best kept alone, in groups of their own kind, or with feisty damselfish in large marine aquaria.

Cheers, Neale

Increasingly due to farming the brackish/freshwater cross overs are becomming more and more hardy in freshwater - figure 8s GSPs etc.

 

[Sesshis_grl]

If you have not done already, you need to provide a densely furnitured (real/fake plants, tunnels etc.) tank for most puffers...Not only will this give them something intresting to explore, but it will also provide plenty of "line of sight" barriers should one puffer try to bully or harrass the other continually.

I may be wrong but I thought puffers were ambush predators..so I'm not sure if giving lots of hiding places would increase aggression or not. I suppose it would be better than nothing though

 

[hillmar77]

If you have not done already, you need to provide a densely furnitured (real/fake plants, tunnels etc.) tank for most puffers...Not only will this give them something intresting to explore, but it will also provide plenty of "line of sight" barriers should one puffer try to bully or harrass the other continually.

I may be wrong but I thought puffers were ambush predators..so I'm not sure if giving lots of hiding places would increase aggression or not. I suppose it would be better than nothing though

That might be true, but in a big tank.... Puffers need a territory that it calls it's own. So plants and hiding spots are needed so he doesn't chase down other fish or puffers in a empty tank. That's usually how some fish can survive with aggressive fishes, with enough hiding spots alot of things are possible.