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Can I put my Ceylon Puffer in with my Stars and Stripes Puffer?

The Ceylon currently shares his tank with a few Bumble Gobies and has never so much as looked at one, he does seem to prefer the salinity on the high side lately a little to high for the gobies. It's about 1.08 but if I drop it his belly goes black and he gets skittish.

My stars and strips puffer shares his tank with 2 Columbian Cat sharks and the SG is about 1.018, he gets less active at higher marine levels and seems to prefer it high end brackish.

Can I put them together safely; neither is practically aggressive with other fish? The Ceylon is 3 inches and the Stars and Stripes is 2.5 inches.

I have read some Ceylons can be devils and that in the Marine species you can only mix 'smooth's' with 'spines'.

Eventually the S&S will need marine conditions but the Ceylon will like that too. Same for the C sharks. The results of pairing them up will depend on the individual puffers & how aggressive they become as adults.

Please do not double post. I deleted your other post, it get's too confusing for folks answering you.

Sorry for the double post, i could not find my post so thought the upload had failed or that I had clicked the wrong button so did it again. Sorry.

Getting back to my original question...

Thanks for the reply, are the chances of them getting on improved since they are both young?

Why do you think the S&S goes 'off' at full marine conditions and prefers high end brakish?

S&S are often found in BW as juvies. I am weary of this pairing up because of the eventual size differences.

As far as finding your posts, there is a place to click on our Homepage that says "View your posts".

Hi sandfire, can I just quickly ask: what size tank are you planning on keeping them all in?