The Puffer Forum

C. lorteti, a close relative of C. irrubesco has been bred successfully. If you want to breed C. irrubesco it could be a good idea to study the reports on C. lorteti (see e.g. the Aqualog puffer book for references). So far it seems unknown what exactly triggers courtship and spawning activity. I w...

Thanks Nick, I phrased that sentence strangely, the brackish tank is seperate with a different brackish species on it's own that I wont breed, and the Red eye puffers will be in a different freshwater tank. With this aggresive behaviour would it be wise to have a tank divider or just move them to se...

Just realised, do they have to be in a pair? Or are they meant to be with a male and 2/3 females?

Thanks again,
Mike

I know this sort of question has been asked many times before, but I'm relatively new to puffers and have never bred them, I'm only keeping one C. tavancoricus at the moment. Recently I've been getting into puffers and am setting up a brackish tank for one of the brackish speciea (which I have yet d...

Thanks for the welcome and sorry for the late reply.

What tank size would 2 figures of 8/9s need?

Cheers,
Mike

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