I added a spotted green puffer & 6 mollies to my 55 gallon tank this past Saturday (June 16). The other day, one of my albino cory cats came up missing.....Found him yesterday almost completely eaten!!! I have the tetraodon nigrovidis not the tetraodon fluviatilis, which is the venomous one to my understanding.
Today, my sucker fish is dead. :( I fed them and saw my sucker swimming along the bottom. An hour later, I found my sucker dead with his sucker eaten OFF and his eyes eaten too. :(
I've NEVER seen my puffer snip at any of my fish. I've seen the mollies chase a few around, but not enough to hurt any. Everytime I feed the fish, the puffer stays away. In fact, I haven't noticed him eating at all......Do you think that the puffer is the one killing my other fish or could it be the mollies? Everything was peaceful in my tank until they came along. :(
2007-06-20 15:47:23 · 5 answers · asked by Karen W 3 in Pets ➔ Fish
Puffer fish love to taste everything. A lot of fish can not survive being tasted and if they die they become an easy meal for everyone. An tall aquarium filled with puffer fish is a beautiful tank though an aquarium with one puffer and a lot of other fish often becomes an aquariu with one puffer.
Look at the puffer's belly. If he isn't eating it will be sunken though I would bet anything it looks like he's eaten a golf ball.
2007-06-20 16:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 gallons is suitable for 1 betta. Green spotted puffers require a MUCH bigger tank (30 ish with plants) cause they will grow. Coincidently, I went to walmart in today and they had like 8 spotted puffer fish in one little freshwater tank and they all had ICH! how sad :(
2016-05-21 05:05:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Puffers are extemely aggressive fish that do best in an extremely well planted species tank. The only fish you could really keep with Puffers are the ones that never sleep and can outswim it. Give your Puffer back or you will soon lose almost all your other fish!
Nosoop4u
2007-06-20 15:55:52 · answer #3 · answered by nosoop4u246 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have no doubt that it's the puffer. Here's a good page about them with tons of additional links at the top.
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/BrackishSubWebIndex/gspsart.htm
MM
2007-06-20 16:09:05 · answer #4 · answered by magicman116 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the puffer they are agressive,they are always hungry,they will eat there self to death.ITS THE PUFFER
2007-06-20 15:54:26 · answer #5 · answered by Kurt Son&trade: 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋