The Puffer Forum

Found these fish species to be very pleasant and shoaling so thats good too, these fish can live in brackish water anything upto full marine.

Very Placid and non aggressive, I think these would make great tank mates for brackish puffers but they will however need lots of space to swim in and a shoaling group of 5 - 6 minimum is best to ensure the fish feel secure:

There are 2 species in particular: Monodactylus argenteus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_moony:






and Monodactylus sebae - http://www.aquariumpassion.com/profiles ... sebae.html:






I am planning to get shoal for argenteus for my tank

Not really that perfect... They grow as large as your outstretched hand, need to be in a school. That means abotut 300g for them. Still will get picked on by the more aggressive GSPs & F8s do best in low-end BW, where the monos get to marine as adults.

If you're getting a massive tank for a shoal then a shoal of scats and/or columbian shark catfish would go very well with them.

Yeah, most people can't get a 300 gallon tank....
Those fish are kind of spooky too, a gsp would stress them out.

I think these are great tank mates:

sevenyearnight wrote:I think these are great tank mates:

am i not seeing something? =P

and ive loved monos since i saw them in a book 7 years ago... just wish they wouldnt get so big

+1 to everything that has been said. Definitely not a good idea for puffer tank mates.

PS: Great one on the rock picture, I love it

+1 to Flutter's comments.

I have seen one tank of M. sebae where the fish looked good and were full-sized. It was about the size of this room. it was also a species tank.

That is not a hobby tank.