The Puffer Forum

5 in 35 G seems rather silly to me. That would be risking life and health of the fishes. I find it rather insulting the way you dismiss my ideas on a fishkeeping as "silly". And the fact that you think it would be risking the health and life of a fish is a matter of opinion. certainly one...

The irrubesco of mine is not an exception. I have sat on the forum for years and too on other forums. My collective knowledge is gained from others who too have had aggressive irrubesco. So no mine is not an isolated incident nor is it the exception. All i am trying to pass on is the knowledge I ha...

had two females together with 14 dp's for 2 1/2 years nearly 3. One of the females killed 7 Dp's and a loach. I moved the two females to their own tank and added a male. She killed the male first then the female. I would say that was aggressive. Another member here has had similar experiences with ...

I can understand your theory but I would have to disagree. Puffers such as these need to establish territories and patches of their own. The female more so. Putting them in undersized conditions is not best practice IMHO. We would never recommend that for dwarf puffers so why a salivator. Like all ...

I know now when I have the male for himself, that if I drop the temperature he will get less active and that will probably mean that his aggression will drop a little... Poffer I would strongly recommend having them in a much larger tank!! I have a 85l and I wouldn't putt them in there because of t...

The people that have kept them and similar species have had significant aggression problems even with bigger tanks. Keeping that many together is not recommended however it is your choice. A few members have lost their females to the male. The pufferpedia recomends a min of 20g. Mine were active to...

Do you have 1 male to 4 females then, how long have they been together like this. The hareem theory has been thrown around by me and Fella as the best way to go with this species. Would like to hear more about your setup and your observations etc... well i bought them as one male and four females b...

One piece of good advice would be to get a very big tank for that many and heavily decorate it. What size are they in at the moment? It is a custom made tank. 35 gallons. lots of plants. I recognise that these are aggresive fish however believe that with a lot of females there seems to be less aggr...

hi i have 5 salivators, and was looking for some other sources of information on them apart from this website pedia thing. There seems to be very little on them around the net. Id like to know about their breeding in the wild and what kind of environment they come from. mine dont seem to use their c...

I have a female salivator with a large stomach. Has been like this for about five days. hasnt been fed much and there are two other females in the tank and a male. does anyone know the breeding process for salivators? I expect it is similar to lorteti. does anyone have any experiece in breeding lort...