Re: Feeding crayfish to my mappa
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:58 pm
Puffers do the majority of their growing pre maturity. Anyone who says otherwise is talking out their botty. Generally speaking of course.
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What is the reason for not getting any more fish until ive upgraded? Agression? water quality? territoriality? Just want to understand why.Pufferpunk wrote:You say he hasn't grown much. Couldn't hurt to treat. I'd think that fella would be growing a lot! I'd wait to get any more fish, until you've upgraded.
When did you upgrade and from what size tank was he in before upgrade?las wrote:I just did that... He's a 4 inch puffer in 210 gal by himself.... and he looks very healthy. Have also been told by other mappa puffer owners that they do not grow that fast.bertie 83 wrote:Look around for a good secondhand tank. You can never upgrade too early and by too much. It's all too easy to upgrade too late
He was in a 90 gal before... upgraded 2 weeks agotrekenk wrote:When did you upgrade and from what size tank was he in before upgrade?las wrote:I just did that... He's a 4 inch puffer in 210 gal by himself.... and he looks very healthy. Have also been told by other mappa puffer owners that they do not grow that fast.bertie 83 wrote:Look around for a good secondhand tank. You can never upgrade too early and by too much. It's all too easy to upgrade too late
I have a 4 & 1/2 inch mappa, who is housed with a blue line angel, a juvenile dussumieri tang, semilavartis butterfly, harlequin tuskfish; he is fine with all of them. My mappa is very docile, and mostly hides in the caves in the live rock and comes out to beg/eat. I think part of it though is that he was tiny (<2inches) when we first put him in the tank with the larger fish as the last addition.The fish I was thinking of adding to the 400 gall are:
Scribbled Angel
Blue line angel
Dussumieri tang
Mitratus or semilavartus butterfly