The Puffer Forum

Originally My plan was to get to f8s,However i am thinking and i cannot resit getting one or two of these puffs, i have a 40 gal

overfiltered
CYCLED
0ppm ammonia
0ppm nitrites
40ppm Nitrates(lowering It)
sandy bottom
brackish
Empty cycled tank

I know 40gal is to small,but i was thinking alot and i would eventually want a saltwater, so i plan to get a 55 gal in a few months, and my idea was get like 2 1 inch gsps, house them in the 40gal for maybe a month or 2(if that long,probably sooner), and then put them in a marine 55gal, i have almost everthing i need,luckilly i bought a 55gal filter for my 40gal and i also bought a 55gal heater,have many snails(breeding) doing there stuff,plenty of food(frozen brine shrimp,clams,krill,shrimp from the market, i wanna make a very good enviroment for my puffs

Can I do this?

If i get a GSP is it gonna want another GSP as a friend?, i do this with like all of my fish enless its completly not good

thanks for the help any suggestions?

Please read the GSP article & the one called "Alone, not lonely", in our Library. I feel my GSP would have been thrilled to have his 55g for himself. They like tons of decor & there wound up not being enough room for him & his tank mates, so the puffers were rehomed. You can also get him a few damselfish or other fast-moving small fish that can dart behind all the decor, if the puffer goes after it. Mine got along with a tomato clown too.

Mine is much happier alone than he was with tankmates.

I would also stick to just one, if it were my choice.

I would stick with one in a 40gal because they are REALLY REALLY messy..... I have a 40gal also and I currently have a GSP and 2 mollies in there (male and female) and they usually clean up after the puffer.

Having a GSP is like having babies that can barely eat, they try to eat the food but it ends up falling all over the place creating a mess. What I do is turn off all the filters/powerhead and let the mollies clean up after the GSP and I then turn on the filter back on.