Setting up a 55gal for Peapuffers are there any other species I can keep with them?
Pea puffer Question
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How about a bichir Palmas? I have a CB palma that’s like only 6inches. It’s in my other tank w some monsters. Worried it’s time is limited . But I’ll probably end up w danios, and try to get shrimp to start reproducing if I can. What you think?
Palmas with a puffer? Not unless you want the bichir to eat them all (and likely get TTX poisoning).
I'm not sure how well this would work with pea puffers, but
Deadeye
has skunk loaches with Amazon puffers. Theoretically, skunk loaches are aggressive enough to stand up to pea puffers, though as far as I am aware it has yet to be tried (which is why I am not sure).
Deadeye
has skunk loaches with Amazon puffers. Theoretically, skunk loaches are aggressive enough to stand up to pea puffers, though as far as I am aware it has yet to be tried (which is why I am not sure).
Absolutely agree with
Deadeye
no on the Palmas or any other fish big enough to put a pea puffer in its mouth.
Mine get along fine with 3 asian stone catfish and a dozen Brigittae rasbora. I started with 10 peas and luckily mine turned out to be 2m and 8f. They were good for about 18 months. One male decided to kill every other pea puffer in the tank other then a single female in the span of about 48hrs. So I'm down to 2 peas 12 rasbora and 3 catfish.....I think ? I hardly ever see the catfish. Oh I forgot I've got a breeding colony of cherry shrimp in there also. The size of the colony fluctuates, I never see the puffers mess with the shrimp but I'm guessing they probably eat the babies when they find them. Tanks only 30g. I think in a 55 or larger with a bunch of sight breaks and plants and stuff you could do a decent sized group with some other small fish. I was thinking a 75 with some small barbs or killi fish 12 to 15 puffers with a good m/f ratio and something near the top like some halfbeaks or the like would be a fun tank.
Deadeye
no on the Palmas or any other fish big enough to put a pea puffer in its mouth. Mine get along fine with 3 asian stone catfish and a dozen Brigittae rasbora. I started with 10 peas and luckily mine turned out to be 2m and 8f. They were good for about 18 months. One male decided to kill every other pea puffer in the tank other then a single female in the span of about 48hrs. So I'm down to 2 peas 12 rasbora and 3 catfish.....I think ? I hardly ever see the catfish. Oh I forgot I've got a breeding colony of cherry shrimp in there also. The size of the colony fluctuates, I never see the puffers mess with the shrimp but I'm guessing they probably eat the babies when they find them. Tanks only 30g. I think in a 55 or larger with a bunch of sight breaks and plants and stuff you could do a decent sized group with some other small fish. I was thinking a 75 with some small barbs or killi fish 12 to 15 puffers with a good m/f ratio and something near the top like some halfbeaks or the like would be a fun tank.
The palmas is small, it might be 6inches and hasn’t grown in over a year in a 125gallon tank. You still think so?
I would like to do like 10 puffers, shrimp (hoping for them to have babies and puffers eat them) maybe a catfish/pleco? Or another type of bottom fish, and then maybe butterfly fish up top since it’ll be planted? What you think.Absolutely agree with
Mine get along fine with 3 asian stone catfish and a dozen Brigittae rasbora. I started with 10 peas and luckily mine turned out to be 2m and 8f. They were good for about 18 months. One male decided to kill every other pea puffer in the tank other then a single female in the span of about 48hrs. So I'm down to 2 peas 12 rasbora and 3 catfish.....I think ? I hardly ever see the catfish. Oh I forgot I've got a breeding colony of cherry shrimp in there also. The size of the colony fluctuates, I never see the puffers mess with the shrimp but I'm guessing they probably eat the babies when they find them. Tanks only 30g. I think in a 55 or larger with a bunch of sight breaks and plants and stuff you could do a decent sized group with some other small fish. I was thinking a 75 with some small barbs or killi fish 12 to 15 puffers with a good m/f ratio and something near the top like some halfbeaks or the like would be a fun tank.
Like I said before no to the Palmas. I'd also say no to butterfly fish I've had them and mine got pretty large 5"ish, they have very large mouths. They would probably, like the Palmas easily eat the pea puffers. Whether or not the pea puffers actually carry the tetrodotoxin that would end up in the loss of both fish I don't know. Most puffers carry the toxin.