Two Puffers on a 20G Tank?

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Two Puffers on a 20G Tank?

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Hey there , im new to puffers , well , almost new , i have a 20G planted aquarium .. With:

1 F8 Puffer
1 Platty
1 Plecostomus
1 Paradise Fish

And i use to have a Monodactylus but it died 3 days ago :'( , he started to open his mouth and his gills expanded , 1 day after that he started to gasp for air on the surface till he died :S...

Well now i bought 2 new fish , 1 F8 puffer , and one Scat.. Will they be ok in my 20G community tank? I already got my Scat in the tank and he has been fighting with my Paradise Fish all day..Well hehe all 30 Min since i got him in there , and the Paradise Fish is the one looking for him :P...

My F8 is in QT and i dunno if he would give me any problems with my other F8...Well , can it be done ??? Can i get my F8 in the tank with my other F8 and fish?

Thnxs for the help...
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Ok, you need to 1st decide if you want FW or BW fish. The F8s & scat are BW & the rest are FW (the platy would appreciate a little aquarium salt, but it isn't necessary). BW is made with marine salt & quite a bit of it. FW fish do not like to live in BW conditions.

Definately return the scat, as it will grow as large as your outstreched hand--way too big for that tank! Your tank is the perfect size for 2 F8s & a few bumblebee gobies, but that would be it. Please read all you can about your puffers here. Start out with the Library.
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ahhh

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What if i keep the scat just for a while ?? im gonna get a bigger tank (maybe 55G) in bout 6 months...

Oh and i 4got to tell you that , my Water is already BW , has 1.005 of salt and my FW fish seem to be adapting very well..

So can my scat be there for just bout 5 months??? and im using FW salt .. ¿Should i change to Pure Marine Salt :D? Thnxs for answering
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You must use marine salt to make BW. The bioload of your tank will handle 2 F8s & maybe a couple of small gobies. That's it! Scats are extremely messy fish & will cause bad things to happen to your tank, if you keep it in there. You cannot kep FW fish comfortably in BW, for any length of time. Please don't!
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Post by Novaz »

Also regarding scats: I had a silver scat that grew in 6 months from really tiny (and cute I might add), to about 6" in length, and 3" tall. During that time it ate all of my plants, and most of the food I put in (they are really fast, and really greedy)

I took mine back to the store and swapped it for a bucket of plants to replace what it had eaten.
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Thnsx

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Cool thnxs for all the advise :D... i will return my scat to my LFS and trade it for some gobies if i can find some cuz here in mexico there´s not a lot to choose from...

By the way.. My Monodactylus died not so long ago , he was ok in the tank , i had him for 15 days , but then one afternoon i saw him with his mouth WIDE open and his gills were all open too ... like if he couldnt "breathe" and got all pale and white .. so i started to treat him with Green malaquite after reading some articles on diseases...after some hours he was ok , but then after an hour he started to gasp for air in the surface and slowly died :S , ...By the information i wrote here ..does anyone has an idea of what happened to him? ¿What disease should i blame it to? :S
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You know what it means to "cycle" a tank, correct? Did you do it before adding fish?
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YUP

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Yup did it...in fact my tank has been "stable" since bout a month , he was the only sick fish in it.. my other fish are doing great
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If the fish are dieing one after the other, then chances are none of them are doing all that great.
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hmmm...

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No fish has died , only my Mono...and i dont know why hehe thats why im asking if someone can identify the disease with the info i gave on my post :P
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Re: Two Puffers on a 20G Tank?

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brodyx wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:57 pm Hey there , im new to puffers , well , almost new , i have a 20G planted aquarium .. With:

1 F8 Puffer
1 Platty
1 Plecostomus
1 Paradise Fish

And i use to have a Monodactylus but it died 3 days ago :'( , he started to open his mouth and his gills expanded , 1 day after that he started to gasp for air on the surface till he died :S...

Well now i bought 2 new fish , 1 F8 puffer , and one Scat.. Will they be ok in my 20G community tank? I already got my Scat in the tank and he has been fighting with my Paradise Fish all day..Well hehe all 30 Min since i got him in there , and the Paradise Fish is the one looking for him :P...

My F8 is in QT and i dunno if he would give me any problems with my other F8...Well , can it be done ??? Can i get my F8 in the tank with my other F8 and fish?

Thnxs for the help...
I wonder this too... :)
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suvattii
burrfish
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Re: Two Puffers on a 20G Tank?

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This post is from 2005.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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