The Puffer Forum

Well, the question is in the title really, are Figure 8's schooling fish?


The reason I ask, is because you don't hear so much about them scrapping like you might the red eye puffer family, plus, IME, they can be prone to glass chasing like the SAP's.

Plus, I just got another 2 and have added them to my brackish tank and they swim together, and mimic each other, for instance, the Figure 8 before never picked at the rocks until the 2 "bigger" puffers started doing it. Strength in numbers?

Further to this, plenty of people keep multiple figure 8's on the forums, anyone see any troubles?

Immature f-8s definitely school, but so do many other puffers (and other predatory fish as well). Mature F-8s are more likely to be territorial - depending in part on the sex ratios and the size of the tank. They are comparable to many of the substrate-associated Cichlids in this. SAPs are always schoolers.