porcupine puffer tank mates

While they can learn some things, they just aren't smart enough to learn to never bite you.I have a baby porcupine puffer. He id approximately 2 inches long and he likes being hand fed but does tend to bite my finger. Another way to grind his teeth down is to feed him some sinking pellet food that is big enough for him to notice, but small enough he has to bring some crushed coral from tank floor into his mouth with it when he picks it off the bottom. Bigger is better and extra gallons buy you time to tweak and and make corrections before your fish suffer from them.Don't bring your new pet home until you have a big, Because porcupine puffers create so much waste, be prepared to do a lot of water changes to remove this waste even if you have a plenum or other nitrate removing device in your aquarium. He sucks in part, chomping, spits it back just a little, then sucks in the whole thing and spits out all the parts he doesn't want through his gill slits. ***** and favoritedThis lens was fun, Kylyssa :) 5 stars headed your way ;) (*scrolling up to the top of the page* now) lolvery good lens with a lot of great advice.

Fish are much more sensitive to odd chemicals than people are. I have a blue dotted puffer.His teeth are likely still being ground down so long as you are serving the shrimp with their shells on. @bonesindecay: You could have it ready right away if you use water from your cycled 100 gallon and attach the Eheim right to the quarantine tank. Their teeth, sometimes referred to as beaks, must be ground down by the consumption of hard-shelled foods.

If you buy mussels or clams from the seafood counter, be sure they are closed up tight which indicates they are alive. Distract him from it while dropping a few pieces of it on the other side of the tank to allow it to sink to the crushed coral on the bottom. It may be aggressive at times, nipping the fins of tank mates and leaving a circular hole as its mark. Porky takes food from the mouths of fish whose faces he could bite off if he weren't careful. Corals, however, are a very individualized matter. When he gets a bit bigger you will want to become fast with it and get it out quickly.

If the puffer decided to eat them it wouldn't bother me much.Thank you for your time.Jared@bonesindecay: If you haven't bought the tank yet, you may wish to consider something a little larger. Thanks again for your advice. The melt water usually contains food juices that will spoil quickly in your display tank. Even though Eheim claims it's good for much larger tanks, if you compare the volume, amount of media space, and the liters-per-hour of turnover with other brands such as Fluval and see what tank sizes they are rated for, you'll see the Eheim is rated with a very different standard. Finding the right pea puffer tank mates is something that many owners struggle with. In very tiny quantities, the toxin causes tingling and euphoria—and sometimes death.You can expect to pay between $25 to $35 for a small porcupine puffer.Your pet fish should outlast the average wild puffer, having the advantage of plentiful appropriate food, protection from predators, and treatment for parasites and diseases. A ten gallon change per week is a very small change for a heavily occupied 100 gallon aquarium. @Kylyssa: Thank you for the info. Hypo-salinity needs to be phased in slowly. I only have a few sponges in my refuge, so If I take away the canister filter I'm not sure if it will be a good idea. I had him over fourteen years.Why did you give your tang a curse word for a name?I named my purple tang a curse word for part of his name (and very, very seldom use it) because he's very aggressive and aggressively annoying to any fish he's big enough to bully. They are also often sloppy eaters who make a lot of waste.When it comes to aquarium fish, porcupine puffers are like SUVs when it comes to fuel efficiency. He grew quickly at first but slowed down. @Kylyssa: I am putting together a refugium with an old 15 gallon tank I had.

I also like to feed the mixed frozen seafood you can buy in some Asian grocery stores. Please try again. It might not seem like a damsel can do much to a blue tang but they can harry and annoy the poor thing until it stops eating or gets infected from the nips. Yahoo mail can be a pain like that. It's tasty for humans, too. The EHEIM 2217 is a good filter for a moderately stocked 100 gallon tank. Or just try to scrape the meat from the shell? I've had my fish so long haven't had to quarantine anything but macroalgae for probably ten years.I'd suggest you treat both the display tank and the quarantine tank with a reef-safe ich-treatment. Just askin' as we have a panther grouper(also very playful and very social) and want to bring in a p.puffer. The Eheim 2217 is a great filter and would be perfect for a moderately stocked 100 gallon, though. For tank mates for your Porcupine Puffer Fish, look into the tangs and wrasses. Each moderate-sized balloonfish contains enough toxin to kill several human beings.Oddly enough, the neuro-toxin found in their flesh is exactly what entices foolhardy gourmands to eat fugu, or sashimi made from pufferfish. Any type of damsel will be fine with the puffer as he's likely going to be a lot less aggressive than you may think.