The Puffer Forum

Well I am frustrated. I was getting ready to move my GSP home from the office and did one last water change.
Everything seemed fine and then he went belly up the next morning. Not sure what happen.
Only thing I did different was a new bottle of prime that I bought from a LFS.

So now that I am fishless. Its time to start over.
I have a 6.6 bookshelf tank.
Sand substrait.

I need to buy a new filter so suggestions on a good one thats quiet for the office would be great.
I was looking at the intank fluval for a 20 gallon but I fear its to tall for my tank.
I guess i will have to go with like an AQ 20 or something.

I cant decide if I want to go back to a small GSP and when he starts to grow in a couple months transfer him home to the 55gallon there.
OR get 2 dwarf puffers and keep them here at the office.

Everyone here at my office loved my puffer he was like the ofice mascot. I would come in to find 2 or 3 people always checking on him.
They were crushed as much as I was when he died.
So tell me what you would do ...

My sympathy for your loss.

I suspect most posters here will concur that 6.6gal is far too small for even a juvie GSP.

Dwarf puffers sound like a better fit for that small of a tank.

6.6 gallons? liters?

IMHO, that is too small for a GSP at any time, even QT.

If it is gallons, a male betta would do okay, but such a tiny tank is hard to heat and filter.

If it is liters it is not a fish tank but an execution chamber. One male shrimp?

6.6 Gallons
When I bought him he was only a half inch. He was sold as a dwarf puffer.
As he grew and I read on here I found out he was a GSP thats why I was tranfering him home.

I am not going to put another GSP in the tank but I was thinking about 1-2 Dwarf Puffers.
If you guys dont think thats a good idea. Then what would you do with the tank.

I like fish with personality ..

Reading the DP entry in the PufferPedia (ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Freshwater/C_Travancoricus/) makes me think that the 6.6g is too small for two dwarfs after all.

What about RTR's suggestion of a male beta?

I would only put 1 Dwarf puffer in the 6.6. Add some life plants.

You could try some cherry shrimp.