Puffer suggestion???

[Paul_MTS]

I'm after something interesting to go in with my crabs.

being crabs it gives me the option of having a brackish puffer...

i can get rid of the platty fry and put them in my lobster tank as lunch!!

and sugestions on the biggest puffer i can keep with my crabs in the 10 gallon?? brackish or salt.

Would like a very nasty one that rips stuff apart apart from my crabs

 

[LadyMinion]

That's gonna be tricky... a puffer that won't touch your crabs. I'm afraid I don't know of any. Inverts are puffer's natural food.

Even if the puffer is smaller than the crabs, it would bite off pieces, usually the eyes. And that's not pleasant.

 

[Paul_MTS]

Oh bugger!!!

guess I'll just have to enjoy that mbu at work!!

what agresive puffer would fit in a 2fter anyways? might have to get another tank

 

[LadyMinion]

If you want an unusual and aggressive freshwater puffer, I'd recommend a congo or a lorteti.

Lorteti are nasty little guys and the congo is this strange shovel-nose monstrosity that ambushes its prey from beneath the sand.

 

[Paul_MTS]

How big would the Lorteti get?

any links/pics?

 

[LadyMinion]

I'll look in my book tomorrow (it's 5am here, lol), but for now here's a couple of links:

http/www.pufferfish.co.uk/aquaria/specie...es/carilort.htm

http/puffernet.tripod.com/lorteti.html

 

[Paul_MTS]

hmmmmm, so where you at at that kind of time!!

deffinately prefer the lorteti as it's bigger!! whats the biggest puffer i could happily house in a 10 gallon?

 

[Paul_MTS]

after some thinking I'ved decided to turn my 3ft community into a puffer tank and get a 4ft community instead.....

so with that extra space what can i put in a 3x1ft tank...same as before i can use sand, make it brackish!!

 

[LadyMinion]

If you're happy to go brackish, a green spotted would be such a happy chappy in there! Or maybe a couple of figure eights?

For freshwater you could have a target or a dragon. They are both inactive puffers though, so you may not see them much.

Or how about a colony of dwarfs or south americans? One of our lfs' had a few in recently and they look so incredibly cute!

 

[Paul_MTS]

I think i like the idea of the brackish tank for one of those 2.

which would get the biggest and most agresive ?

although a group would be nice i'd prefer a nice big evil puffer!! I'd love a fahaka but i couldn't bring myself to using such a big tank for 1 fish where as a 3 ft isn't so bad

 

[LadyMinion]

I think i like the idea of the brackish tank for one of those 2.

which would get the biggest and most agresive ?

although a group would be nice i'd prefer a nice big evil puffer!! I'd love a fahaka but i couldn't bring myself to using such a big tank for 1 fish where as a 3 ft isn't so bad

The green-spotteds would get biggest - up to 10cm. Imagine dwarfs but bigger and er, spotted.

I'm keeping my eye out for a congo at the moment - highly aggressive and freshwater and described as looking like a swimming turd.

 

[Puffer_freak]

Any puffer more would do for me!