Yes. a heavily decorated tank is always advised with more than a single puffer. Even a singleton enjoys checking out lots of items in it's environment or tends to get bored & "glass surf".
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I have noticed that with them and I am in the process of adding a lot of plants and other structures. I do have a lot of little caves they enjoy, but i think they are still a little bored.
I am pretty sure that i have i male and two female, I do not know much about these guys breeding but I do not think it is likely. Anything that I might need to know as far as what would help?
Did you follow my link? They actually spawn pretty easily. Raising the dust-sized fry is another thing...
I am trying to learn as much as possible about puffers in general, and have learned alot, but I am still learning all the time as well. I do appreciate pufferpunk's advice and knowledge!
my LFS sold these guys to me as two diff species, but after looking around they are the same species, just male and female.
You might want to post something about that in that forum, so see of folks there have had any success. Like I said, the fry are next to impossible to rear. I've tried with the lorteti, which is a similar but much more aggressive species. I had a female for a while & then added 2 more females & a male. She killed the 2 new F after a couple of days & then killed the male, after spawning with him & laying eggs 3x. I needed a magnifying glass to see the fay & cold never find something small enough for them to eat. You'd need multiple tanks to raise them, as they would eat each other otherwise.
thats pretty much what I though. I do have two empty ten gallon tanks on hand though. I am not really trying to breed them, just trying to find out some info incase they do breed. Right now though the male does not even seem to care about the two females, and they do not seem to care about each other at the moment either. I think this is due to having SO much room in the 90 gallon.
My palembangs had bred a few times in the past, and i have never been able to keep the fry alive longer than about 1 - 1.5 months... those little things take some serious dedication to keep them alive, and since i've always had bad luck raising Baby Brine Shrimp, my fry never got too far...
But agreed with PP, lots of decor will help cut down on aggression and stress...
But agreed with PP, lots of decor will help cut down on aggression and stress...
