Puffers Living with Other Puffers
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:40 pm
Hello All,
I am new to the forum and will be new to puffer motherhood in the next few weeks. I kept community freshwater years ago.
So, before I ask my questions -- I hope you dont mind hearing my plan. (After reading so many horror stories of people just picking up a puffer and coming home with it -- I decided to be a very conscious parent and plan, plan, plan.) I visited three shops today and did not leave with any puffers! That is hard to do!
So. I have a 29 gal tank which I want to keep simple but elegant
The tank was set yesterday (I added stability, gravel, a few decorations, biowheel, heater, fake plants, etc) and is currently cycling with 2 mollies and some ghosts shrimp. I figure once I put the puffers in there I will probably have to return the mollies to the store.
I have started a small snail breeding tank for yummies for the kids (I have been a vertarian for 15 years so this is a big step towards puffer motherhood!)
I am most interested in GSP and also maybe F8. I understand that GSP can often be pretty agressive but the GSP are really what i want so I am going to submit to their nature and built everything else around them, even if that means having no other critters in the tank.
I am starting with a very slightly brackish tank. I was going to go full brakish but all the puffers I see in the stores are kept in straght freshwater. So, over the months and years I plan to make it more and more brackish -- eventually hopefully turning it into a marie tank. Another reason why I want to keep the tank simple. I know that as adults they do much better in marie water and this seems like a natural progression for both the puffers and I
I am trying to figure out the how many, what and when. I would like to stay with the 29G set up if possible.
1) Anyone had any luck with GSP and F8 co existing?
2) Anyone had any luck with GSP and Dwarf Puffers co existing?
3) Since they like hard water are Coral and shells of for the tank?
4) I have read that GSP and F8 need 10 gal each at adulthood. I want to plan for this. Which means my tank could possibly handel 3 puffers. But I am worried that this will be crowded. At the point they are that big they will have lived together (hopefully) for years so maybe that wont be the case.
Anyway -- all advice is welcomed!
Thanks and I am glad to join the pufferlover family!
-Ms. Andy Gish
I am new to the forum and will be new to puffer motherhood in the next few weeks. I kept community freshwater years ago.
So, before I ask my questions -- I hope you dont mind hearing my plan. (After reading so many horror stories of people just picking up a puffer and coming home with it -- I decided to be a very conscious parent and plan, plan, plan.) I visited three shops today and did not leave with any puffers! That is hard to do!
So. I have a 29 gal tank which I want to keep simple but elegant
The tank was set yesterday (I added stability, gravel, a few decorations, biowheel, heater, fake plants, etc) and is currently cycling with 2 mollies and some ghosts shrimp. I figure once I put the puffers in there I will probably have to return the mollies to the store.
I have started a small snail breeding tank for yummies for the kids (I have been a vertarian for 15 years so this is a big step towards puffer motherhood!)
I am most interested in GSP and also maybe F8. I understand that GSP can often be pretty agressive but the GSP are really what i want so I am going to submit to their nature and built everything else around them, even if that means having no other critters in the tank.
I am starting with a very slightly brackish tank. I was going to go full brakish but all the puffers I see in the stores are kept in straght freshwater. So, over the months and years I plan to make it more and more brackish -- eventually hopefully turning it into a marie tank. Another reason why I want to keep the tank simple. I know that as adults they do much better in marie water and this seems like a natural progression for both the puffers and I
I am trying to figure out the how many, what and when. I would like to stay with the 29G set up if possible.
1) Anyone had any luck with GSP and F8 co existing?
2) Anyone had any luck with GSP and Dwarf Puffers co existing?
3) Since they like hard water are Coral and shells of for the tank?
4) I have read that GSP and F8 need 10 gal each at adulthood. I want to plan for this. Which means my tank could possibly handel 3 puffers. But I am worried that this will be crowded. At the point they are that big they will have lived together (hopefully) for years so maybe that wont be the case.
Anyway -- all advice is welcomed!
Thanks and I am glad to join the pufferlover family!
-Ms. Andy Gish