long shot but might work....

[all_or_nothin]

OKAY this might be a total fail by if it works it would be soo cool.
ok so heres what i think: 40 planted with plants like java moss, japanese mossballs, amazon sword , and some sort of carpet plant wich i need ideas on and idk what its called but its really popular and its like anch... somthing like that. and the stock list would hopefully be:

• 10 dwarf puffer fish for the main fish
• a colony of ghost shrimp for food for the puffer and theyll have a bunch of places to hide and breed
• a bunch of ramshorns so the puffers dont eat all the shrimp and have something else to eat
• some type of loach.. maybe a yo-yo loach so the ramshorns population wouldnt get out of control
• i think maybe like 10 neon tetras, and another type of tetra which is really red idk what the name is
• MAYBE a blue crawdad because i havent got a straight answer if that would work or not

Please put in you opinion... i would like to kno if i need alot of cover for the shrimp cause i was thinking a mass of plants that would be like impenetrable to fish so the shrimp would have somewhere to go.. i really think this would be cool if it worked and i would feed them brine shrimp probaly twice a week so the puffers wouldnt need to much food.

 

[rudukai13]

I would think the moss would be a good hiding place for the shrimp.

 

[hybridtheoryd16]

Blue cray fish are predators and will eat thing they can get there claws on. Shrimp, puffers, tetra's, anything.

You will need to add shrimp on a regular basis because the puffers are specialized shell fish hunters and they will hunt every second of the day that they are not resting. Now matter if they have just eatin or not.

So as long as you are Ok with the shrimp being feeders then go for it.

For example I have 2 pea puffers and I add 12 shrimp a week on sunday and by wed. , thursday I do not see any live shrimp. Even if the puffers can not eat another bite they kill the shrimp and let them lay. I also feed the tank inhabitants every day, frozen brine shrimp and blood worms.

 

[JakeH]

Puffers, Ghost Shrimp & Ramshorns may work together... However, the loach will die a slow painful death one bite at a time from the puffs & the tetras will quickly become puffer turds when they run out of snails & shrimp to hunt. The crayfish is simply a bad idea with any fish. Except full-grown Green Spotted Puffers...they will impressively disassemble a crayfish piece by piece...so still probably a bad idea.

 

[MDK500]

OKAY this might be a total fail by if it works it would be soo cool.
ok so heres what i think: 40 planted with plants like java moss, japanese mossballs, amazon sword , and some sort of carpet plant wich i need ideas on and idk what its called but its really popular and its like anch... somthing like that. and the stock list would hopefully be:

• 10 dwarf puffer fish for the main fish
• a colony of ghost shrimp for food for the puffer and theyll have a bunch of places to hide and breed
• a bunch of ramshorns so the puffers dont eat all the shrimp and have something else to eat
• some type of loach.. maybe a yo-yo loach so the ramshorns population wouldnt get out of control
• i think maybe like 10 neon tetras, and another type of tetra which is really red idk what the name is
• MAYBE a blue crawdad because i havent got a straight answer if that would work or not

Please put in you opinion... i would like to kno if i need alot of cover for the shrimp cause i was thinking a mass of plants that would be like impenetrable to fish so the shrimp would have somewhere to go.. i really think this would be cool if it worked and i would feed them brine shrimp probaly twice a week so the puffers wouldnt need to much food.

The puffers will eat all of the shrimp and snails with in a few days unless the cray doesn't eat the puffers and shrimp first. This isn't a lake here, where you can support a breeding population of prey for predators.

 

[Electric45]

This honestly sounds like a bad idea from the get go, i would say do some research on the puffers and realize their aggressiveness. And as far as the crawdad goes, ive kept one before. They will eat anything and everything. There is no way possible you can keep it in a planted tank. Goodluck, do some more research and sry to give u the bad news.