At first I was put off because I was told they were C. lorteti, and I had read that the lorteti can be very nasty towards their own kind, and I had been wanting to get some males and females. So the entire time we were driving down to Lincoln (we live near Worksop), I was fretting about having puffers that want to kill each other. I've been very lucky with all my puffers, they don't hurt each other and with the exception of my Suvattii, my puffers don't hurt any other fish either.
I was pleasantly surprised when we got to Maidenhead and the puffers they are selling as C. lorteti are actually C. irrubesco!! I was overjoyed and quickly bought 2, which turned out to be males. I was so happy with having gotten the puffers I've been wanting that we went down to Lincoln earlier today and I bought 4 more, all females. So now I've got 2 males and 4 females, and they are loving the tank I have them in. It's heavily planted and very attractive, I don't mind saying, and there's lots of places for them to hide. I do have 1 Gibbiceps in there with them, but he stays to himself and so far, they've not bothered him at all. There's also an Upside-Down catfish in there, I have no idea where it is and it stays hidden most of the time so hopefully it won't be bothered by the new Red-Eyes that have invaded the tank.
I could not be happier because I've been wanting these Red-Eyes just about since I first read about them. Today has been a very happy day for me, and I could not be happier because my tank full of Dwarf & SAP's seems to have gotten over the white spot outbreak that has been plaguing me all week, I lost 3 but it could have been worse.
So now I have 9 C. travancoricus (Dwarf puffers), 2 C. asellus (SAP's), 1 T. biocellatus (Figure Eight), 2 M. Suvattii (Arrowhead) , and 6 Red-Eye Puffers (C. irrubesco) - of course these are not all in the same tank ..... I have several tanks.
Life is good when you have puffers in your life!!
