The Puffer Forum

I would like to keep a freshwater puffer species in my 20 gallon tank, can anyone recomend a good species and how many and if tank mates can be used, id like to look at all my options thanx

Welcome There's several types that you could keep. Take a look through here: ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Freshwater/

The ones that I've had are dwarfs, irrubescos, or F8s. They're all lovely though I would be tempted to go with one F8, then 1M 2F irrubescos, then 1M 3F dwarfs. All of those will need complex tanks but F8s also require brackish water. DPs can be very hard to sex in the store whereas irrubescos are very easy to sex.

What do you have available?

ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Freshwater/C_Irrubesco/
ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Freshwater/C_Travancoricus/

According to my LFS i can come in and order a fish and they call when it arrives so im sure i can get any species id like However id like to stay Freshwater for now and id also like a puffer that doesnt require JUST live food.

And also id like to have a puffer that will be more active during the day, if thats possible

Take a look through that first link and let us know what you're interested in. We can help you narrow it down with our experiences

Keep in mind though they may say they can get you anything but they probably can't. Puffers aren't like other fish.

I looked on this site earlier and on others and made a list based on that accoding to my tank size what i liked. Here it is: Ocellated Puffer, Red Eye Puffer, Fangs Puffer, Malebo, Arrowhead Puffer, Brown Puffer and Amazon Puffer. Please let me know what you think of those and if any of those require only live foods then elminate them, if there is any non nocturnal species point the out directly please

Ocellated Puffer~ hard to find, active, 1 would fit in your tank

Red Eye Puffer ~ Which red eye? Carinotetraodon irrubesco, Carinotetraodon lorteti

Fangs Puffer ~ Hard to find, Lurker not terribly active

Malebo ~ you won't find this one

Arrowhead Puffer ~ Lurker, inactive

Brown Puffer ~ Friendly somewhat active, but mostly inactive

Amazon Puffer ~ No, these are schoolers so you need more than one and you tank is too small.

Please read all the profiles & minimum tank size requirements for all these puffers you're interested in, at our Pufferpedia. Are there fish in that tank now?

No PufferPunk, my tank is empty, il set it up according to my inhabitents to make them happy

Either of the 3 Red Eye's in the pufferpedia would suit me, Anything Active during the day would be wonderful and will eat freeze dried Krill etc.

If I were you, when you do find a puffer you like in a shop, bring some FD plankton with you to see if it likes that food. There are also frozen foods to feed a puffer, along with easily purchased foods from the produce section of your grocery store.

I cant find any frozen or live fish food at any Fish Store within 200 miles of where im at. All i can find is Feeder fish or brine shrimps. Could you give me an example of what i can buy to feed them fromthe grocery store. Also i can buy mystery snail to breed.

BTW im either doing a Red Eye species or Ocellated

Don't even think of an occelated puffer for a 20g. It also needs high end BW & really is a marine coldwater fish.
library/puffers-in-focus/takifuguocellatus/
library/feeding/feeding-your-puffers/

No thats not the correct species, this is the species im refering to

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/fish/oc ... puffer.php
http://www.kosmix.com/topic/ocellated_puffer_fish

I belive however im going to go with the Red Eye Red Tailed puffer for my tank, anyone know how many i can do?

Oooops i appologize, been a long week for me. I meant Red Eye Red Bellied Puffer, the more active species.