The Puffer Forum

The Auriglobus species both show 20 gallon in the pufferpedia as well? As well as the red eye species and fangs

Ariglobus puffers are so cool! They remind me of a FW filefish. What about the dwarf red eyes?

I want something active.. the red eyes arent as active sadly. Dont the red eyes and golden puffers get to the same size if not a little bigger than a fang?

Red eyes are quite active! I actually gave away my 1st turgidus (very similar to Fang's), because he never left his cave. I do have a new one now who is quite personable but does still spend most of his time in his cave, too. Dwarf red eye species only grow to about 2". I am rethinking the size tank I had my Golden in--I'm thinking it was a 20 long.

I geuss my confusion stems from the tank requirments. I understand puffs are dirty, but if they only get 2 or 3 inches and the filter can handle the bio load, then if the tank is 8 times their size in length, I just think that would be suitable. Not being argumentative.. just confused, and it doesnt help that Im new to this hobby. I feel like I almost wish I hadnt fallen so much in love with puffers.. a community tank seems like its be less constricting.. I just dont really care for many community fish.

If the red eyes only get 2" would it be reasonable to put more than 1 in there? I do like the striped red eyes.. but the puffer pedia says they get bigger than 2"?

They are VERY aggressive towards each other. I had a female who killed 2 of the 3 males I added with her in 1 night. After breeding with the other 3x, she killed him too!

So basically I can only get a single f8 or 3 dwarves or a single red eye (which is impossible to find) Im starting to think Ill just not set the 15 up :/ Im not a big community fish type person.