green pufferfish

[dolphinstj]

I am interested in a green puffer. I have read that they get up to 8 inches. Would it be possible to keep them in a 35 gallon tank. Of course he would be alone. Would it be enough room or how much or how little is needed?

 

[Opcn]

Do you have a genus name? Puffers are often territorial and fin nip your current 35 gallon would probably be fine if the puffer isn't a piscavor (an ambush hunter would be very succesful with bold fish like yours) however any puffer would devour your ghost shrimp.

If you find a genus name or someone else comes along and helps you ID then you will find that an abundance of knowledge is available on this forum

opcn

 

[CFC]

A 35 gallon would be fine for a single fish up to around 8 inches long.

 

[GP]

They say that the rule of thumb is an inch per gallon, but to give the fish more room I'd give them 2 gallons per inch. If you had a 35 gallon I think that would be suitable for 2 GSP's, but you have to make ALOT of hiding spaces, so as to take away the dominate puffers field of vision. I learned this the hard way, two puffers died because the dominate one would always chase them away, and make them very stressed and refuse to eat..

 

[Pufferpack]

The 1 inch/gal guideline is too general to go by IMHO, and with puffers I have seen it recomended as 5 inch/gal, but there again that is too general IMHO. The big issue with the puffers (aside from their messy nature when eating) is the aggression factor. I wouldn't try more than 1 GSP in a 35 gal, unless it was a temporary grow out tank and you were planning to move thm to a bigger tank in a year or so.

 

[Opcn]

I wouldnt recomend keeping two fish of any kind that are as agressive as GSP's in a 35 gallon Bad mojo even for the first year i'm sure they would get mad as hell at each other

 

[GP]

The 1 inch/gal guideline is too general to go by IMHO, and with puffers I have seen it recomended as 5 inch/gal, but there again that is too general IMHO. The big issue with the puffers (aside from their messy nature when eating) is the aggression factor. I wouldn't try more than 1 GSP in a 35 gal, unless it was a temporary grow out tank and you were planning to move thm to a bigger tank in a year or so.

Thats true, because they are aggressive after all. But also, if they were both able to have lots and lots of hiding places and own territories, it wouldn't be too much of a problem IMO.