Figure 8 Puffers... any information?

[landmineyouth]

I recently purchased one of these (about 1.5 to 2 inches) for my VERY-semi brackish tank.... its housed with 2 mono seabea's, 1 archer fish (3-4inches or so), a ghostknife and some other various bottom dwellers..

i dont see the puffer much, ive only had him for 48 hours, but he tends to hide mostly and i havent seen him eat either... the archer almost tried to make a meal of HIM at first glance but i think he now realizes its not food...

i have plenty of live plants and rocks for hiding, wich is mainly what he is doing, but he seems healthy, should i worry, do these fish become more personable or do they enjoy mostly hiding?

 

[landmineyouth]

i failed to mention the tank is 75g... 48inches long.

 

[Micky_Fahaka]

He'll be hiding till he gets used to the tank/tankmates, youll have to watch how he interacts I know the other fish are bigger but puffers tend to take on fishes 10 times there size, I had a few dwarfs puffers (1cm) and they chased and nipped everything they could see!

 

[Miles]

http://www.pufferlist.com/puffer/biocellatus.htm

Heres a tidbit of info on them.. My F8 puffer has learned to beg for food and never hides unless somsone gets very close to the glass and spooks him..

 

[mbhw]

Very nippy fish, hopefully yours isn't too aggressive. Clean water, food, aggressive, tough tankmates, that pretty much sums up my figure 8 experience.

I also found they did well in pure salt.