mbu cohab with pea puffers
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Mbu like hard ph 7+, and pea puffers like it soft 6-. Mbu are also large, dirty and predatory, while pea puffers need plant cover (never kept either.) Even if the mbu doesn't eat the peas, it would be needlessly difficult to care for them together. Just set up a 5-12g tank for pea puffers, it'll be easier and healthier for them.
Am I the only one that thinks this would work out? The mbu full grown will get to about 2 foot while the pea puffer will only get to 1 inch.... Do yall really think the mbu will spend the energy to get such little food out of it?
Come on, if you expend more calories then you get then it's not worth your time. It's common sense.
I think it would be rather easy to care for both of the puffers in the same tank. Being as these are captive bred fish (I assume) they will be able to adapt to a wide arrange of water parameters if I'm correct. Now that we have that out of the way I can get onto the topic of housing. I'd get about half or maybe a fourth of the tank heavily planted then zip tie a tube into the tank going into the plants or just above it. Feed the mbu puffer then drop the food down the tube for the pea puffers.
Anybody see any flaws in my thinking?
Come on, if you expend more calories then you get then it's not worth your time. It's common sense.
I think it would be rather easy to care for both of the puffers in the same tank. Being as these are captive bred fish (I assume) they will be able to adapt to a wide arrange of water parameters if I'm correct. Now that we have that out of the way I can get onto the topic of housing. I'd get about half or maybe a fourth of the tank heavily planted then zip tie a tube into the tank going into the plants or just above it. Feed the mbu puffer then drop the food down the tube for the pea puffers.
Anybody see any flaws in my thinking?
I believe both species are wild caught, at least the mbu will definitely be. Peas probably are as well. And while your idea may work it'll take a long time for the puffer to get that big..
I had thought I read an article about mbu puffers being commercially bred somewhere but I may have been wrong. But anyway, how rare are full grown mbu puffers anyway? I think a full grown one would at least pull a grand, maybe two or more.
This wouldn't work. In addition to needing very different water parameters, most notable pH and gH, the Travancoricus would bite the Mbu's fins. You should probably start off with a group of 6 Travancoricus in a 29 gallon or so.