What to breed ?

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What to breed ?

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Hi, I have bred a pair of pufferfish before and now I am looking at getting another pair to breed. Which species of freshwater puffer's is easy to breed?

Please also post nay impromation regarding your suggestion. Pic's will also help :D

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what have you bred?
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I have bred the Sea Frog Puffer, I am not sure on its latin name.
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Can you tell us a bit more about it? How many did you raise?What happened to them?
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The Dwarf Puffers (Carinotetraodon travancoricus) are the most reliable breeders, likely with the Red-eyed Red-tail (C. irrubesco) next. The other commonly available Carinotetraodon (C. lorteti) should be similar to that, but is a bit nastier.
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His puffers were the T cutcutia.
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