can i have a green spotted puffer with saltwater fish. I KNOW THEIR MIX WATER.but i heard of alot of ppl that have them with saltwater fish. if you r one of them please help me. tell me how much salt u have? whats ur ph? n what kind of fish u have? how many gallon?
i have a 20 gallon tank with crust coral, ph, 8.0,1.023,F 80. i have 3, 3 stripe damsels,im going to get a blue tang, two clows,1 goby, Do they do good with a green spotted puffer?cuz i heard green spotted puffer r agressive n eat other fish,
2007-09-22 19:17:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
You can keep green spotted puffers in full marine salinity - as adults, that's the salt level in which they do best. Unfortunately, puffers are aggressive to tankmates - they really should be kept in tanks by themselves.
They would also need to have a larger tank than a 20 gallon. And a blue tang will need to have a MUCH larger tank than a 20 gallon - these fish get a foot long, and it wouldn't have room to swim. And they're an active species, so they DO need space larger than you might think for their size just for swimming. The two links I put below on their care both list 70 gallon as the minimum size for these, but I personally think a 90 is better for them.
For your added information, the green spotted is a high-end brackish, the figure eight is low end brackish, and the dwarf is purely freshwater. You can find this information in the sources I've listed, or look these up on your own. If you attempt to keep these together as suggested, eventually you'll have one or more die from improper conditions, provided they don't kill each other first. Puffers are territorial and aggressive, sometimes even with members of their own species. To keep them together is irresponsible.
2007-09-22 19:43:02 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Green Spotted Puffer Saltwater
2016-11-06 12:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by blackstock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Currently I have a 55 gallon saltwater tank that houses 4 green spotted puffers 2 dogface puffers a mappa puffer a snowflake eel and a yellowtail damsel (I was hopeing the puffers would eat the Damsel) My water is as follows ph 8.0, 1.022 80f. I did take 3 days and slowly raised my brackish tank up to the desired salt level. But the fact of the matter is my green spotted puffers are greener and more active than I've ever see them. Just don't put any inverts in the take. and I'm not sure about the blue tang the can get pretty mean. Trial and error I guess. Good luck and let me know how it turns out
2007-09-23 19:41:33 · answer #3 · answered by chadallnutt 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
first of all, your puffer may have a hard time converting to saltwater because he is naturally brackish, or he may die of shock during the change. Also, puffers are aggressive fish. puffers need snails in their diet, so they would eat part of your clean up crew. i wouldn't be surprised if he ate hermit crabs too. Basically, puffers eat anything they can get their teeth to clamp down on. I would try placing your puffer with a fish larger than it, but not another aggressive fish. Your GSP might still nip at another fishes fins, even if it's tank mate is larger than himself.
2016-03-13 05:29:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Green Spotted Puffer should be kept in groups of any amount and is compatible with Dwarf Puffer, Figure 8.
Its better to keep a GSP with mono's and archerfish.
2007-09-23 21:46:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋