F8 tankmates?
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WickedEdges
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F8 tankmates?
Can anyone tell me what tankmates are good for a F8 puff?
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Re: F8 tankmates?
How big is the tank?
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Re: F8 tankmates?
With a single F8 (well, you could keep 2 in there too), a pair of knight gobies or a bunch of BBGs or a pair of chromides or some mollies.
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Re: F8 tankmates?
I was told BBGs and F8 weren't a good match?
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Re: F8 tankmates?
Puffers are notoriously tempermental, you can get docile ones that are good with tankmates and aggressive ones that aren't good with tankmates. It seems that F8's are generally less aggressive than other species, I have had 2 living successfully with BBGs for about 3 or 4 years now.WickedEdges wrote:I was told BBGs and F8 weren't a good match?
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Re: F8 tankmates?
Have never seen any agressiveness from mine but then again it could be the fact that I keep two in a 60g tank, with 6 Knight Gobys, 3 molly's and a dragon goby. I used to have BBG's in there but they are gone now. I believe they were eaten by the archer that used to be in the tank.
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Re: F8 tankmates?
For me, F-8s are generally non-aggressive with other than their own species. Co-housed with others of their own kind, post puberty they can become dominant to hyperdominat to others like themselves. That is especially true if the tank is near the margins of sufficient volume and insufficiently visually complex.
I'm not sure about dragon gobies - I would keep them in higher salt content tanks.
I'm not sure about dragon gobies - I would keep them in higher salt content tanks.
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