Puffer Fish In A Community Tank?

[Newfag]

Hey.

So ... my sister's fiance (sp?) has a tank - 120 litres, and I've been bullying him into getting some sort of puffer for it.

The tank has a wide variety of fish that live together in it without trouble, sucking loaches, dward and honey gouramis, pleco, harlequin rasbora, neon tetras, cardinal tetras, african dwarf frog, siamese fighting, ram, vijeta, japonic shrimp (as you can see quite a mixture)

now ive been looking at a variet of puffers, from topaz to african leopard and to be honest - i have no idea what im looking at. any ideas on what would work in a community tank?

thanks in advance

 

[gaz gun man]

in short, I dont think there is any puffer suitable for that tank, which already sounds overstocked

 

[Hallett]

Puffers will destroy shrimp and tertras of any kind, gouramis I expect so. I find with puffers you can sometimesw get a nice one but generally they'll bite anything, Dwarf or otherwise.

 

[Erised]

Completely agree with what has been said above. Puffers are simply not suitable for any type of community tank. They're very aggressive fish that do best in a species only tank. And even then it completely depends on the personality of said puffer as to whether or not he/she will accept any fish around them at all. Some people are lucky enough to pull off keeping dwarf puffers with ottos and cories for their full life span, others are only 'lucky' for about half a year til a year while the puffer is still a juvenile and after that end up with floating fish that have been ripped apart by the puffers. Honestly, I wouldn't try it if I were you ... or your sisters fiancée.

If you really want to keep a puffer buy an aquarium yourself. A small 5G will suffice for a single dwarf puffer. Maybe your sisters fiancée will be kind enough to give you some filter media from his already established tank, that way you can clone his tank instead of having it go through a full cycle. Just please don't try to keep a puffer in a community tank.