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PuffEnough
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Too Small?

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I have had a green spotted puffer for a couple months. It’s about an inch and a half (~4cm) and while it seems healthy and happy enough, but it does not seem to be getting much bigger.

I had it in a ten-gallon tank with a few mollies, and moved it to a twenty-gallon a week ago.

I feed it mostly frozen blood-worms which it eats with reckless abandon.

I would not be concerned, but other posts have indicated theirs grow faster. The mollies have doubled in size over the same period and they actually push the puffer around a bit.

I did have to leave it for a week once with an auto-feeder, but while the mollies looked fine, the puffer looked starved. It (apparently) will not eat the pellets.
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Re: Too Small?

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You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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Re: Too Small?

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Thanks!
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