What Puffer and FW Puffers

[Gavinfleury29]

could i plz have a list of puffers and all note wether they are brakish or not

 

[phantomlink]

the only puffer thats pure freshwater are dwarf/pea puffers, the rest are brackish/marine

 

[Gavinfleury29]

Ok, and Plec can't live in Brakish right

 

[phantomlink]

Plecos?  I dont believe so but I would only suggest having puffers in a species only tank, mixing them doesn't go well for the other fish even if the fish are larger then the puffer but I would wait till someone with puffer experience chimes in

 

[Chad]

There are quite a few puffers that spend their entire lives in freshwater.
I am not 100% sure of the list and since this is off the top of my head may have some wrong so I suggest you double check.
 
The red eye puffers, dwarfs (as mentioned), South American, Abei, Bronze, Golden, Brown, Fahaka, the pignosed group, congo, and I am 99% sure the Mbu is totally freshwater as well. Again...off the top of the head so there may be some that I missed for sure.
 
Ah...you know...I seem to remember a thread on this...just a moment let me search the forum...here it is...
 
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/127807-common-freshwater-puffers-the-basics/
 
I missed a few like the dragon and the arrowhead...
 
I have seen large pleco kept with Mbu at one of LFS here in Arizona.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

these are all fresh water puffers, easier to list just them than the other 6 brackish and the 24 marine puffers too.
 
Auriglobus modestus

Common Name: Bronze Puffer
 

Auriglobus silus

Common Name: Golden Puffer/ Elongated Golden Puffer
 

Carinotetraodon borneensis

Common Name: Bornean red eye puffer
 

Carinotetraodon irrubesco

Common Name: Red Tailed Redeye Puffer
 

Carinotetraodon lorteti

Common Name: Red Eye Red Belly Puffer
 

Carinotetraodon salivator

Common Name: Striped Redeye Puffer
 

Carinotetraodon travancoricus

Common Name: Dwarf Puffer
 

Carinotetraodon travancoricus

Common Name: Dwarf Puffer
 

Colomesus asellus

Common Name: South American Puffer


 

Monotrete Abei

Common Name: Abei Puffer
 

Monotrete Baileyi

Common Name: 'Hairy' puffer
 

Monotrete Cambodgiensis

Common Name: Also known as Tetraodon cambodgiensis
 

Monotrete Cochinchinensis

Common Name: Fangs Puffer
 

Monotrete Palembangensis

Common Name: Palembang Puffer
 

Monotrete suvattii

Common Name: Arrowhead Puffer
 

Monotrete turgidus

Common Name: Brown Puffer
 

Tetraodon cutcutia

Common Name: Common Puffer
 

Tetraodon duboisi

Common Name: Dubois' Freshwater Puffer
 

Tetraodon lineatus

Common Name: Fahaka puffer
 

Tetraodon mbu

Common Name: Mbu Puffer
 

Tetraodon miurus

Common Name: Congo Puffer
 

Tetraodon pustulatus

Common Name: Cross River Puffer

 

[Gavinfleury29]

Thx for the help my pleco is a BN

 

[techen]

A bristlenose would die in a brackish tank. They dont like salt.

 

[Gavinfleury29]

Because it burns there skin I'm correct right?

 

[Gavinfleury29]

I want I puffer here is my tank and occupants and functions
36g tank
Functions:air pump, tetra whisper carbon 45, tetra whisper carbon 30,
250w heater and LED bubble wand

Occupants 1 BristleNose pleco,3 red minor tetras, 1 back skirt tetra, 11 rainbow shark
, 1 Dalmatian molly

 

[Livewire88]

Sorry to say but IMO there arnt any puffers suitable to fit in with your current stocking.

 

[leighton_87]

Do you really have 11 rainbow sharks? That is a recipe for disaster IMO

 

[Chad]

more than just that...it also affect cellular activity.

 

[Gavinfleury29]

oh woops 1 rainbow shark

 

[Gavinfleury29]

could you narrow the ones dwn by what i can have but post here http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/413966-what-puffers-would-suite-me/