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lumpeburgersmyth Member Posts: 33 |
posted 06-13-2003 05:11 PM
can i keep green puffer fish with red bellied piranhas?! IP: Logged |
Stormwatcher Member Posts: 52 |
posted 06-14-2003 12:57 AM
While puffers are mainly fin nippers, the would probably be eaten by the piranha. Any fish will eat any other fish that fits inside its mouth, and piranhas will take on fish almost as big as them. IP: Logged |
ArrOwAnA Member Posts: 170 |
posted 06-28-2003 12:12 PM
actually that isint really true the redpike cichlid i have could easily fit in the pacus mouth and the pacu doesnt try to eat it IP: Logged |
pacuguy Member Posts: 200 |
posted 06-28-2003 12:18 PM
i have about 5 fish that my pacus could easily eat but dont even look at them......yet IP: Logged |
kc5gvn Moderator Posts: 806 |
posted 06-29-2003 05:25 AM
Other fish will leave puffers alone because they give off a toxin when bitten, but you have to remember puffers have different water requirements. Puffers are brackish water fish. IP: Logged |
ArrOwAnA Member Posts: 170 |
posted 06-29-2003 11:08 AM
not all there are freshwater puffers(i have them) IP: Logged |
kc5gvn Moderator Posts: 806 |
posted 06-30-2003 02:05 AM
ArrOwAnA, I believe if you will check on your particular species I think that you will find that it is actually a brackish water puffer (freshwater with higher salt content). I have never run across a TRUE FRESHWATER puffer. If it is a true freshwater puffer I would like to find out the species. Dwarfs, Malibars, and figure 8 are brackish. IP: Logged |
ArrOwAnA Member Posts: 170 |
posted 07-01-2003 02:26 PM
well it probally is but not to high(i want the pleco to live) IP: Logged |
RachelB Member Posts: 22 |
posted 11-20-2003 08:04 AM
there are puffers that will do just fine in freshwater, i have a green spotted puffer in freshwater and it is very happy, everything that i have read on them say that they will do just fine in either fresh or brackish, as long as you keep your water conditions consistant. IP: Logged |
katanas_edge Member Posts: 266 |
posted 11-20-2003 01:37 PM
Most of the info I've seen lists puffers in one of the fresh, brackish or marine categories that they prefer, although several can live in a range of conditions. See http://www.aquariumfish.net/catalog_pages/brackish_water/puffer_figure_eight.htm for common names and http://www.pufferfish.co.uk/aquaria/species/pufferfish/types/index.htm for a more complete listing using latin names. IP: Logged |
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