Green Spotted Puffer

[thelastbetta]

My uncle is going to give me a 150 gallon brackish tank for Thanksgiving. I think Green Spotted Puffer's are absolutely adorable and I know a very good breeder an hour away from where I live. I was wondering if a 150 gallon was big enough for one? It's already been cycled, has sand, pump, live plants, etc. If it is big enough, what kind of tank mates could it have, if any?

 

[Pufferpunk]

If there have been no fish in the tank for 24 hours & the bacteria hasn't been fed, it will not remain cycled. There is no such thing as a GSP breeder. They are not bred in captivity.

A 150g is a wonderful tank for these fish. There really aren't many fish that can go thru the salinity changes that this species of puffers need (up to marine conditions as adults). Scats could work. You will need to buy all your puffers at the same time (you can keep 5 adults in a 150), so they can grow up together. In marine conditions, you could keep damselfish, or maybe a tomato clownfish.

See: GSPs

 

[thelastbetta]

Oh. There is fish in there right now. He's not taking the fish out until he's giving it to me so it'll still be cycled when I get it. That's not really what I meant by breeder, he has them shipped and sells them. So I can get five young ones and they'll be fine together?

 

[Puffer_freak]

Probably, but there's no guarantees. Each will need it's own territory and lots of broken eyelines are necessary. Every puffer does have it's own personality, and are all different, so you might get a really dominant one and a really docile one.

Good luck with the tank, keep us updated!

 

[Pufferpunk]

There is a good chance they will all get along thru adulthood but with puffers, you never can tell.

 

[Little Fish]

Every puffer does have it's own personality, and are all different, so you might get a really dominant one and a really docile one.

Yeah, every puffer is different. I have one dwarf puffer that would not eat anything I put into the tank. It only eats food that it hunts and it hunts snails and shrimps 4 times its size. Guppy fries also disappear every now and then. My other dwarf puffer will happily eat freeze dry or frozen bloodworms. Its temper is so mild that even feeder guppies took advantage of it. Once it was biting on a freeze dry bloodworm and a guppy came by and bites on the other end of the bloodworm. The guppy managed to pull the bloodworm out from the puffer's mouth and swallowed it.