The Puffer Forum

I got a GSP about a week ago..and I cycled my tank with a couple mollys. The LFS I got the GSP from had them in freshwater so thats how I cycled the tank (I'm slowly adding salt). So I added the baby GSP to the tank when the Molly was still in there..and they seemed fine. But I fed them bloodworms that night and the Molly was picking on the GSP! So I took the molly out and moved him...I was just surprised at how docile the GSP was!

Well a lot of puffers are shy and skittish at first. How big was the molly? Can you get a pic of the GSP? just wondering

The Molly was around the same size as the GSP, maybe a little longer. But he wasn't really trying to eat the bloodworms or get them from the GSP..he wouldn't eat them. He was just being a bully :19:

Please make those pics smaller. I hope those worms fatten up soon, otherwise you may need to treat for internal parasites.

I've already started treating for internal parasites .

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Mollies can hold their own against most fishes.
I have a batch of wild-caught Mollies in my brackish tank.
No aggression beetween them and my puffers.
Merely respectful distance!

I believe that PP had to re-house a sailfin molly because bullied her GSP's?

I think it bullied an F8.

My GSP is very docile, too.

mollys are no joke! i bought them for my 10gal betta tank, to have some more fish in there.. and they kicked the cr*ap outta my betta! i also a few years ago had them in my 20 gal mbuna cichlid tank, same thing happend! they are driven to eat! haha. and they dont like to share