Pygmy Puffer

[Fwapp]

I popped into my local maidenhead aquatics the other day to buy some fishfood, and after buying the food, I had the obligatory wander around the tanks, looking at all the lovely fishes

Anyway, they have some dead cute pygmy puffers in the freshwater section, and to my surprise, they were marked up as suitable for community tanks. Now I'm sure that I've read that they are only suitable for a species tank, as they'll eat anything smaller than a fully grown red-tailed catfish , or similar.

I'm afraid I didn't take the species name, but I may if there is a possibilty that I may be able to buy one for my tank.

Anybody know for sure?

 

[Torrean]

no. Puffers are a bad idea for communities. There are some fish that they can go with but generally no.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

yup, great idea







if you want all your fish to die

 

[pica_nuttalli]

a quote is worth a thousand "no"s

the puffer is doing fine and not picking on any other fish.

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Yep, that's how it always starts.

We tried tetras with our dwarf puffers once... everything was fine for for months then overnight we lost nine of the 11 tetras.

This is what a one inch Dwarf puffer can do to a tetra.

apologies for having to drag this photo out yet again to illustrate the point once again that puffers are not community fish.

 

[Fwapp]

Well, the advice, and the above picture are pretty conclusive. No puffer for me .

Funny that MA seem to have got it so wrong, theye're normaly spot on.

 

[demonmagus]

if you get a 5 gallon, you could have your puffer

 

[minkymaid]

Thanks everyone for this timely advice - just seen the same in my local shop here in Staffordshire - not that they were labelled up as community fish - I was about to ask the same question about whether they'd fit in with my community. Sigh - guess not then.
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