Pea Puffer Tank Mates for a Community
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Pea Puffer Tank Mate Ideas for Community. In this video I talk about my experience with keeping this fish and possible tank Mates and other fish you can keep for a community setup. Keeping Pea Puffer fish with other fish as tank mates can be dangerous so be careful.
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I must’ve got the sweetest pea puffer ever! I’ve kept mine with a group of ember tetras and cherry shrimp for a little over a year now!
I have kept lots of Malabar puffers for many years. Vast majority of mine don’t care to bother shrimp and active fish. Embers are active fast. Now slower fish or fish that like to hang out on bottom or a leaf or rock stationary they will nip nip nip. They can’t help it. I have one right now with 3 rescue guppy’s (long story) 3 ADFs 1 Cory cat also a rescue otherwise I wouldn’t have it alone a old large bumble bee goby two old Amano shrimp a single reticulated hill stream loach everything is a rescue it’s my rescue tank. Long story how each one came to be but they were unwanted or in a bad situation being neglected. It’s heavily planted smaller tank 20G. It did have a small group of pigmy corys and that’s the only thing I had to move. They hung out on this large rock a lot and the puffer would terrorize them and parts were starting to go missing so I moved them into another tank they healed survived all good. The puffer doesn’t mess with the guppy’s because they are always moving and also won’t take any crap. The larger Cory it acts like it doesn’t exist for some reason, I have kept ADFs with pea puffers MANY times never a issue. I think it freaks the puffer out that the frogs will try and eat anything that moves and can fit in their mouth. The loch it’s funny because that thing is mean😂. I never had a reticulated hill stream loach I got this one from one of my sons friends who had the poor fella in a very small tank didn’t know how to feed it right and it was going to die. I have had it a year it’s gotten much bigger quite healthy and happy. But it’s MEAN and territorial NOTHING messes with it. And the goby hates everyone and is a loner and stays in his area and is always grumpy I don’t know how old he is but he’s OLD and big. Had him for several years and he was big and old when I got him. Sucks this guys killed guppy’s. My 3 I have in there puffer every once in a while tests one and they fight back. And he retreats and doesn’t try again for weeks. Puffers are smart and gauge and remember who takes crap and who doesn’t.
Hi, need help. I got pea puffers. But they are skittish. They just get vanish in plants when I come to the tank. I got them 4 days ago..When I try to feed them other fish (tetras and platys) eat all the food. How much time will they take to get acclimated?
@@chinmayhebli4129 It honestly depends on the fish themselves one that I’ve had over a year still goes and hides when I come up close and another one I haven’t had as long comes right up to me. Try to feed frozen bloodworms and distract the tetras with some and try to get some to sink to the bottom in the puffers view. Hopefully the pea puffers will hunt it down on the bottom before the other fish get it all. My tetras typically don’t eat them off the substrate because they are full from what has already been fed to them. Hope this helps good luck 👍🏻
@@SlickNick3 Thanks for the tip. I have got both dried and live bloodworms. Trying hard to provide good food and environment to the puffers. Thanks again.
@@chinmayhebli4129 you are very welcome 🙂
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The holes in your plants could be due to a potassium deficiency. I had the same problem (in my pea tank too) and I started dosing potassium and everything is growing better. My plants are green and no yellowing.
I absolutely love the new rack! I can relate to filling your place with tanks, I seem to be doing the same. I currently have 12.
Thank you for this, I wanted to keep these fish but I wanted with schooling fish. Great video man!
I agree with you!! My pea puffer destroyed my planted tank out of boredom and I feel like she would do the same to any companions I tried to add to her tank....instead of friends I just added new things or rearranged her tank frequently to keep her intrigued with new places to explore.
did you ever think of adding more pea puffers? that’s been said to regulate their behavior to some degree (from what ive researched thus far, they seem to mellow out if there’s 3-5 in a heavily planted tank?)
@@figz1881 that did cross my mind but by the time I got a big enough tank set up to house a school of pea puffers they were out of stock everywhere I looked, then my sweet pea puffer managed to jump out of a small hole in the lid of the tank while I was at work and died 😭 I now cover every hole on every tank I have whether the fish are jumpers or not
I have 1 male in a 5 gallon heavily planted..I have stones with holes in them and he goes in and out of them all day. I also have him in an active part of the house so he's always entertained. He's my favorite fish. I have 2 community tanks so he's the only lone ranger 🤣❤
I keep my puffers without any no puffer tank mates yes they are so very intelligent, I love them.
I feed mine twice a day, bloodworms and or pond snails. This does make the tank get dirty quickly tho. Thanks for the video!
Get a ton of feeder ghost shrimp. They are inexpensive enough to get enough to actually survive long enough to clean
Agree totally! Have had 8 in my 47 column with a pleco that had nips on his tail.
I think they work best as the little guys in a community tank. I have tiger barbs and some other mystery tetras in a tnak with my 2 pea puffs. They never get messed with and are small enough to have their own little world among the plants
Your fish are bored because there is not enough of them in your tank. Add four more and they will spread the aggression among eachother. I have had my puffers in the community tank for over a year now.
Not sure, but have seen from multiple sources that they should be fed twice a day - so not sure if that would help with the plant issue?
Also good to move stuff in the enclosure every few months so they don't bored ?
I have my puffers "Grace and Franky" with 10 pygmy corys and 2 vampire ottos in a heavy planted fluval flex 15g and they are the smartest fish iv ever seen. You are very right about how inquisitive they are lol they have been together for months but other than 1 of my corys fins getting a little chunk taken out they have been pretty cool to eachother. i think i got lucky with mine but if anything changes ill be sure to post it. love the content and keep up the good work!
just came across this and just wondering if you’ve had any difficulty
I searched through pea puffer forums to research and read hundreds of posts. The majority of people say their pea puffers didn't bother their Bumblebee Gobies, Kuhli loaches, Ottos, or Bristlenose plecos.
I have found tossing in a bunch of snails and black warms at nightn while their sleeping, burying them keep them active. You're irght, they get bored, so you gotta have a tank stocked (be ready to clean) with prey for them to fun or they'll just get bored. FYI, playing with them during special feeding time is great too. Snails and black worms to hunt but you give them brine shrimp and blood worms. Mean Beans are the best!
What do you do to play with them?
Mine is super peaceful in a Molly community tank for some reason. I feel like their individual tempermants vary a lot more than a lot of nano fish
Are your mollys bigger than your pea puffer? Did you ever notice any fin nipping? I’m considering adding a pea puffer to my community tabk but I don’t want to risk it if it’s anything like my betta
pea puffers only attack bigger fish to my knowledge anything smaller is safe@@bulldawgfooliooo
What if you let a big tank get full of breeding shrimp and snails and just put in 1 puffer fish with some other nano fish? Would the abundance of baby shrimp and snails keep it occupied I wonder?
What lighting would you use for a cherry shrimp take with a beta ? I haven’t started the tank yet, just getting started.
I have one pea puffer in my 30 gallon tank with 7 corydoras (orange and green) and it hasn’t nipped any of their fins. They are very active though so idk if that’s the reason. The tank has wood, rocks and a few plants.
i never knew puffers ate plants!!!!! mine baby girl pays no mind to my planted tank i put her in:)
LOVE your 10 gallon rack build. But shouldn't the bottoms of those tanks have more support?
Thats exactly what i was coming to ask. I thought you had to have all sides of a framed tank touching. This is confusing.
All of my tea puffers are in a community 125 gal and theyre fine! They have tons of rocks and places to hide in caverns and caves in tunnels and all kinds of stuff, little bits like a floating ball on a chain anchor to the bottom to play with and tons of plants. They've never fought my other fish and they always come to your finger if you put it against the glass because they've learned that I feed them right after doing that
Nice video I have 3 pea puffers 1 male 2 females with a ton of plants and driftwood and caves I also have 2 bumblebee goby and 5 Amano shrimp haven't had a problem yet.... well every once in awhile the goby will chase the puffer but that's it
What about Zebra Danios? They're much faster than Guppies and all the constant activity might bring the puffers out more.
I agree, pea puffers on their own!
They are byfar my favorite fish. I kept mine with spotted placo. As long as the fish is bigger than them they should be ok.
My peas live relatively peacefully with cherry shrimps. You have to keep them well fed so they don't bother hunting though.
I have my P puffers in the 75 gallon community tank with angelfish Corys, ghost shrimp, bristle nose, Mollys, guppies, lampeye tetras, and I have no issues.
Did your pea puffer ever nip at your mollys or your shrimp?
I keep 4 with kuhlis, clown killifish neocaridinas, and zebra nerites. Scarcely ever do they eat a shrimp.
Breeding puffer fish is very interesting. They will fight together sometimes and the fish’s tail will be injured. They like to eat live shrimps and bloodworms.
Will guppy grass serve if they ar ed glued to rock or driftwood?
As long as the fish don't injure each other does it matter if they fight?
any chance you remember the name of the sponge filter used in this video ?
Pygme corys seem to be doing well with mine
Could you get them some sort of a puzzle toy. Like you would for a dog that gets board?
I just set up a 15 gallon colum with 2 pea puffers, 2 checker board barbs an 4 kulhi loaches. Which I will move th pea puffers an loaches to a 15 cube in a month or 2. So we will see.
So 3 pea puffers an 2 snails in a 15 cube. Heavly planted an feeding 2x a day. So far its a good mix.
Update
3 pea puffers in a 20 long moderately planted. Some mystery snails are the companions. The puffers eat every single ba y snail no out breaks.
@@onehitterquitter2130hi I was wondering do your puffers nip at your mystery snails?
I just got two pea puffs a week and a half ago. I can't tell if they're male or female but they follow eachother around and occasionally pick on eachother but not often. They rarely pick on my African dwarf frogs but the frogs are terrified of them including my large male frog who is five times their size. They don't bother my Cory Dora's in fact my Cory's fight back when they get nippy wich made them stop pretty fast. Im more worried about the frogs than the Cory's because they genuinely have some natural fear of pea puffs and curl up when picked on. Thankfully it's not a problem so far but my puffs are juvenile so only time will tell.
the frogs can probably tell how smart they are lol!
Can anyone tell me how the third channel of chris is called, i already am sub to palmer aquatics and to palmer aquatics clips i just can't find out the third channel
Peas puffers are all born female. They aren't sexable as juveniles because they are ALL female, then the one(s) that perceive itself to be dominant in each few will flip to male when they're adults/more mature. As babies they all have female markings, the ones that 'decide' to become males won't do so until getting older. They won't change sex again. In people terms they're all female until they grow to be bigger than toddlers/young children. Then you get them flipping to male. Amazing fish. We have a large group of ten, in a VERY heavily planted tank. They might be my favourite fish. If they keep that brighter colour and the back patches, it's female. Males lose most of those black patches, go a darker colour, and get the black belly stripe. They dance and flash the stripe at females once "ready" to go. Males also develop MUCH more of the blue patterning around the eye along with the belly stipe when mature / have decided to be male :)
I have 3 peas with 9 harlequin rasboras and 2 hillstream loaches. They’ve been together for about 18 months with no issues. I think I have all of one sex, so they aren’t super aggressive with each other. The tank looks like a jungle of plants with lots of hiding places though.
The males have a dark yellow line on their bellies. I have 4 males and a single female. She’s a lot larger than the fellas though. They all get along fairly well with everything else i have(15 ember/neon tetras, 4Cory cats, and a few Molly’s.
What size tanks do you both have them in? I really want to put one in my 20 long with my danio, Cory's, and reticulated hilstream. But I don't want anything to happen to the current inhabitants lol
@@HeyItsCeeJay 20g long A year later and they continue to do well. Just have a backup plan in case things go sideways.
@fishandfloral awesome, thank you for responding so quickly! I have a 10g sitting around and a extra cycled sponge filter in the 20 so I think I'm going to try lol
Pygmy corydoras are a pretty good tank mates IMO.
I heard that you shouldn’t feed fish daily. Is that true?
I’ve heard you’re supposed to feed at least once a day with these but I’m new to them so this may not be fact
I’ve had my 2 puffers with a Mano shrimps, cherry shrimps, neon tetras, otocinclus, merited snails and honey fours is with no problem in a 20 gallon long. Maybe take your own advice and put more plants in that aquarium 😉
I have a group of 10 pea puffers who are just starting to show signs of sexual maturity. However, a large number of them seem to have a line down their belly. Do juveniles sometimes have the line before they choose their sex? Otherwise how can I possibly end up with more boys then girls?
I have one in a 40 planted breeder with 5 guppies, 7 ember tetras, 10 cardinals, a honey gourami, and a Goby. No issues with aggression or tearing up plants. She puts a hurting on the snails though and loves BBS and bloodworms.
I have 6 pea puffers in my 125 pleco tank. There’s thousands of trumpet snails for them to eat. I have a royal and common pleco and about 30 bristlenose plecos. It’s worked for about 18 months now. It’s not planted but has tons of wood everywhere.
Careful, once the plecos are large enough they might eat your puffers!
I had 2males 4females in a 55gal shallow tank for 3yrs with bbgobys halfbeaks kuliz and fresh water wasp fish and a few shrimp and never had any issues but they do like it when you move things around makes them explore more
That sexing thing is for an interesting reason. Pea Puffers are born female. The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium channel has a great video on this.
The strongest female will release homones internally that change it to a male while also releasing hormones externally to inhibit the ability of other pea puffers to become male.
So don't even worry about sexing. By a few and one of them will be male when its time. ;) Just learned that before watching this video.
Here's the link to that video: ruclips.net/video/ySajZJ73wEI/видео.html&ab_channel=TheSecretHistoryLivinginYourAquarium
Heck yea!!
I really like puffer but cant keep with any other fish😢
I keep mine with scats and gobies, no issues…yet.
I fell in love with planted aquariums as a hobby about 7yrs ago, one of my first attempts at a community tank included a Pea Puffer...
7yrs later and I am just now only beginning to reconsider dealing with those beaked psychopaths again!😭😂
What’s the name of the other channel?
Can mollies live with Pea Puffers?????
What happens if you touch pea puffers
Hay, if you need mutt guppies to fill those 10's let me know. I have a load of them in my pond that I need to thin out soon.
Some really nice looking fish.
And yellow shrimp.
I think all predators land and sea are smart to a degree, it goes with hunting as you have to learn behavioral patterns and tactics.
I cpmmunal pea puffer and guppy and it's going right
My puffer gets along wth my Platies Molly and Black tetras
Your 10 gallon rack needs to support the whole bottom rim of the tanks. It may be fine now, but I bet you'll get some cracks down the line.
Have had lots of racks like this. Cory from the co-op has his store like this too (where I got idea)
theyre 10s....get real dude.
Fake news. You can build racks up to 120 gallons and only support the ends with zero issues. Thousands of people have full fish rooms built like this. Please stop spreading false information.
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They are great tank mates for scuds, pest snails, feeder shrimp. The more the merrier.
im sorry but you sound like hiccup from how to train your dragon its amazing
I keep otto cats, clown killifish, kuhli loaches, amanos, and a BN pleco in my tank with 7 pea puffers.
Sounds like an awesome stock full of interesting and unique fish! What is the tank size?
@@LShaver947 20 gallon long. There have been no issues in this set up at all. All the puffers aggression (if you even want to call it that) is focused on each other and I keep them very very well fed with live blackworms and snails. I even gained two more clown killis because the original two bred. Didn’t even bother containing the fry. They survived just fine.
@@Sleeper362 Are kuhli loaches ok with pea puffers ???? 20 gallon fully planted tank !!!
@@vikasmv3105 absolutely. I have three with mine and the only mistake I’ve made is not making it six. Kuhli loaches like pea puffers can survive with less than six but exhibit totally different more natural behavior when in groups of six or more. Adding six to a heavily planted 20 won’t impact your bioload any more than adding one pea puffer by my estimation.
I thought you could keep them with bumblebee gobies? No?
Plecco?
My pea puffer is tank mates with rasboras, tetras, and african dwarf frogs. 🤷🏽♀️
My sad story with these little guys is that I has them in a 30 gallon tank in my room and a huge pump because i kept them in with guppies my puffer his name was Liam got sucked in the pump and I cried for like a week abt it it was horrible to clean up
Kuhli loach works for me.
I'm thinking whoops!
mine with clown loach
I have 30 of them and they don't know there small little bulldogs have them in a 75 have plants with Cory's and Hillsdale loaches for over a year you need to feed them every day bloodworms puffers have high metabolisms they need to eat twice a day when they're young and when they're adults once a day
wait you have other channels
You still got all the South Americans?
It's not because they are bored it's because they need to constantly chew. They have teeth that constantly grow and the only way they keep them down is to chew hard things such as snails.
Feeding them soft blood worms does little to their teeth. I suggest building a small 10 gallon tank and fill it with bladder, pond or ramshorn snails and let them breed . Feed them to the puffers and they will be happy!
Try bumblebee gobies.
love the hair, Palmer
Cheesy ahh entrance
Try stone catfish .
bumble bee gobys with mine going on a year no issues
5 puffers 5 gobys
Amazing! You are very lucky. What size tank?
@@franszymanek8695 20 gallon, apparently it’s quite common to keep them together now which I kinda seen coming as they have very similar personality just inhabit different parts of the tank
I don't think you should put anything in with a pea puffer except other pea puffers. Everything will seem fine for a while and then one day I'll come home and all of your other fish will be dead or have their fins eaten off. They're like Chihuahuas. Tiny but the most likely to be vicious.
terrible advice
NONE?
Hello! Are you guys there?
Of course we're watching your video what do you expect?
Feed them daily you will see them be less aggressive and eating random stuff. Snails should of never been added unless they are meant to be food lol
Youre incorrect. I have 2 pea puffers with some endlers and a dwarf frog. Please don't put long finned fish in with puffers. They're notorious fin nippers. They need fast, short finned buddies if you want to keep them in a community tank.
Look it’s Palmer the rapping fish keeper !!! Please let’s see your slim fishy !!! Can the real slim fishy please stand up ⬆️ please stand up !!!! Bro pea puffers and corn 🌽
Wtf??? I put one pee puffer fish in my community fish.
Wrong
Best tank mates for pea puffers: 3 ember tetras 2 otinculus cat fish 1 cherry barbs
A cherry Barb? Your crazy
Guppies and snails??!!! No wonder you’re not having any luck! Those are literally the two WORST tank mates you could possibly have! 🤦♀️ Bad, inaccurate information… onto the next video! Sorry dude, I usually don’t comment on videos, but guppies and snails??? 😳
Thanks for wasting my time
Huh? What’s up?