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New to puffer need advice
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:48 pm
by dafunk5446
Hello, I have a 42 gallon hex tank, and I was wanting to set up a puffer tank, I was just wondering if anyone could give me suggestions on what species would be good to start with for this tank? I like arrowheads but I'm not sure if they would do good in this style tank, also are they as hard to care for as I have heard? I have experience with freshwater community fish and cichlids so I'm not completely ignorant. Any help would be very nice.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:05 am
by kass
Check out the pufferpedia, it'll give you some ideas to start with.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:18 am
by Hilly
Do you want to stay purely freshwater or would you go brackish?
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:27 am
by dafunk5446
I just looking for ideas, I would kinda like to stay with freshwater variety's but it isn't essential. I wouldn't have any trouble setting up either. Also I don't really want tiny little puffer's either. I would like a larger size one not huge or anything but the biggest one I could fit in that tank comfortably.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:31 pm
by Hilly
If you dont want small then t. palambangensis springs to mind, they're FW, mimimum tank size is 40g (us) and they can get to around 8".
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug. ... bangensis/
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:26 pm
by RTR
I would not put a palembang puffer in a ~40 gallon hex - too little footprint. Those fish are substrate associated, they need floor space not height.
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:29 am
by Hilly
RTR wrote:I would not put a palembang puffer in a ~40 gallon hex - too little footprint. Those fish are substrate associated, they need floor space not height.
Didn't think about the footprint. That's the Palembang out then.