Spotted Puffers
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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.
As for temperment, they are fin biters. I've even seem some groups eat feeder fish.
Can they be kept in groups? Because I read that they might be aggressive towards each other as well.
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...
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.
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...
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.