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benzjamin13
11-14-2005, 4:43 AM
Anyone know anything about these kids?
Salinity Level
Size
Tank Size
Temperment
Zoodiver
11-14-2005, 11:41 AM
I've seen the kept in everything from fresh to full salt water. They see to do best about 1.015 or so. Mine all got to be around 4" or so, and were kept in a 55. They don't need lots of room, but like any fish, the more you have, the better they'll do.
As for temperment, they are fin biters. I've even seem some groups eat feeder fish.
benzjamin13
11-16-2005, 2:09 PM
Can they be kept in groups? Because I read that they might be aggressive towards each other as well.
Weve got ours in with figure 8 puffers and given the size difference we have no problems.
ice-dragon
11-17-2005, 1:28 AM
u could drop them from salt water to pure freshwater without fazing them
rweedon
11-17-2005, 1:32 AM
these are a brackish water species no matter what anyone tells you they should not be kept with figger 8's as they are freshwater all of the ones that I have kept have all eaten goldfish so they are really mean but I have seen them kept with mono argenteus and sebae... so it seems it can really vary on the temperament between individual fish I think that they should be kept in 1.015 as juvies and then even moved to full saltwater as adults as they would do in the wild...
benzjamin13
11-17-2005, 1:38 AM
Thanks for all the input. I'm actually asking for a friend. I just gave him and his wife a full 10g set up. I had it at work, but I'm going to be starting a new carreer by the new year and I doubt I can have a tank in the kitchen of a restaurant. He was interested in puffers, mainly the spotted puffers. I just wanted to make sure I was giving him the right advice. And it would just be 1 to 3 puffers. I'm telling him if he got 3, he would need to up grade. He's actually thinking of join this site as well.
rweedon
11-17-2005, 1:42 AM
tell him to get the gold green freshwater puffer's for a ten gallon tank he can have like a dozen of them cool lil guys we keep them with golden white clouds at the store it is a favorite tank of customers...
benzjamin13
11-17-2005, 1:53 AM
We looked at those and he wasn't impressed. He said they don't even look like puffers to him because you can't see their fins.
benzjamin13
11-17-2005, 2:15 PM
u could drop them from salt water to pure freshwater without fazing them
Does that mean they don't need to be acclimated?
rweedon
11-17-2005, 3:40 PM
they do need to be acclimatized and you should always keep them in with some salt how much is up to you get some info there are so many ideas about these lil guys...
ice-dragon
11-18-2005, 8:47 AM
hah... they were wild caught puffers and i didnt acclimatized them. they were with me for some time before being released back into the wild