? Tank mates

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Trouty
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? Tank mates

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So I have 3 dwarf puffers in my tank, after reading lots and lots and lots I can't decide if I should put either dwarf oto's in with them or amano shrimp to help cleaning? Has anyone actually done this? Is it realistic?
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I have 1 dp in a tank with a blue crayfish. The crayfish keeps it clean
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How big is the tank?

How long has it been established?

Does it have dense live plants?
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Tank is 70litres, had puffers in for about 1 month, but previous to that had some fish in to help it become established. It has quite a few live plants in and a fair size piece of bog wood, I'm putting even more plants in this weekend.
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That is a bit small for other tankmates IME.

Can you tell the genders of the DPs yet?

I have not co-housed 2 male DPs in less than a 40-long US gallon tank (w/3-4 females) and 1-2 Otocinclus cats. I have kept one DP male w/2-3 females without other fish in a US 33 gallon extra-long tank. I used a couple of those set-ups for breeding. I had to add a 24/7 lighted refugium to provide enough infusoria for the fry. It was not terribly productive, but they did work.

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