Pea Puffer Care and Breeding: A Tiny Fish with a BIG Attitude!
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2025
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In this video we take a closer look at the pea puffer. It's a great nano fish that can fit well in a smaller tank, but we do have to be careful what tank mates we choose.
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Thank you for this video. I just picked up a pea puffer. I now know i have male. He is in a 10 gallon with few black neons, pygmy Cory's and a ton of different live snails, limpets, and seed shrimp, with ghost shrimp. The shrimp are feeders amd cleaners. I it in my most seasoned tank. Its been running for 3 years now.
is it okay to use gravel and fake plants?
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is a pea puffer a cichlid????????
I have had my pea puffer for eight years and he is still going! Great video!
Still going?
@@4ndy123 To heaven
@@idiesoucanlive_yt1804 😔
They can actually live up to 10 years, not 4-5 years
Hey Jason, as I live next to where there is a pretty good amount of pea puffers I'll tell you what I witnessed about them in the wild;
Pea puffers ( Carinotetraodon Travancorius ) is normally found in schools in the wild they have varying substrate in different parts of the river as some parts have a rocky gravel and others have sand while others have a mixture of both.
The plants normally found there are limnophylla aromatics,vallisneria natans, cryptocoryne spirals [ is the most likely crypt species I found still trying to get a good id ], lagenandra toxicaria,najas minor, and a few others, the river had varying flow with most of the fish staying in places with medium flow while others stayed in stagnant dead spots in the river
Hope you find my info useful!
Thank you so much for sharing! Really appreciate your perspective - that is awesome!
Yes! Thank you for this info very helpful!!
@@shadeaquaticbreeder2914 no need to say thanks, the aqaurium hobby is built on us helping eachother !!!
@SINGLETON222 I'm lucky due to the fact that I live near a river I can just hang out there all day during lockdown
@@aneethasalim5814 youre lucky to be down south.here in maharashtra no puffers.some great snakeheads and loaches though.
I adore the pea puffers! THANKS FOR YOUR VIDEOS!! I have a pea puffer in with my male guppies in a 5.5 gallon tank. The reason all is well is 1) the tank is FULL of live plants for lots of coverage 2) there are a LOT of ramshorn snails. 'Puffy' single-finnedly manages the WHOLE colony of snails by himself. He eats the snail-eggs AND the baby snails. He leaves the adult snails alone. As the adult snails eventually die off from old age, I add more snails from my other tanks. Puffy works everyday checking the eggs. He does NOT bother the guppies. Occasionally the boy guppies try to get amorous with him and he just swims away, lol. It is one of the great joys of my life to watch this 3/4 inch fish manage this snail colony. It is very important to add more snails when the old ones die naturally of old age, after laying lots of eggs in their life-time. 2 years now, this has been going on. LOTS of plants encourage the snails laying their eggs, and it gives Puffy lots to keep 'interested' in. He carefully SCANS every square inch of the tank for his dinners. AMAZING little fish. I am so grateful to know and be able to observe him.💦🙏🐟
Omggg thank you!!! I been wanting to get a pea puffer so badly!. I have ramshorn snail population skyrocketing in my tank too! So i guess my pea puffer shouldnt mind the other tank mates… neon tetras and cherry barbs! Ill give it a try
You are very welcome! Have LOTS of live plants if you can. Neons should be fine. I have not had Cherry Barbs. Just watch for aggression from or to the Barbs. Pea puffers can vary in their approaches. Some are more shy and some are more aggressive. It can take them awhile to catch on to how to 'farm the snails'. i notice lately some of the snail's antennas are gone probably due to Puffy. The adult snails are still doing okay inspite of missing their antennas. I wish you well😊!!@@bigsur370
Lots of helpful information in this videos, bro.
However, your delivery of the same is off-putting to say the least. Your breathless, non-stop, frenzied yapping, punctuated over and over by your hard snot /mucus drainage swallows so pronounced that we can hear your throat muscles STRAIN to force it all down your throat is absolutely horrifying, and enough to make viewers GAG every time you do it. Perhaps you should prepare beforehand, write down the specifics of the information you're delivering so you can speak more slowly and come off as less frenetic? And take a decongestant or something to drain your sinuses well before you film so we never have to listen to one of those awful straining hard snot swallows again.
In the ocean Dolphins play with puffer fish flinging them around . The puffer fish release a toxin as a result and dolphins get high of it .They pass the puffer fish around in like a game sharing the high toxin it releases amongst the pod ,. I saw a wildlife show about it it’s incredible . And fascinating.
Some of the smartest animals and even they try to get high lol
😂😂😭
They even know that life shouldn't be taken to serious...you wont get out alive
Puff puff pass
@@gravertern5457 thats hilarious. Puff puff pass. Thats it. Thank you
In my experience, my pea puffers don't go after adult cherry shrimp. I have half a dozen wild-colors in a 5g with my puffer, they graze and breed without any issues. They're especially helpful since a clean-up crew is important for the messy eating. Of course, the puffer definitely eats the offspring, but that's not a problem for me at all.
Natural population control yo
you should get a 10 gal
@@jaystackz3425 5 gal is sufficient for that. Shrimp have insanely small bioloads and he only has 1 puffer.
Have one little guy who is about 1.5 inches which is pretty big in a 5.5 gallon by himself. The second I enter the room he sees me and goes nuts! Coolest nano fish ever
I used to have them many years ago. There used to be a great website and forum for them, but sadly because of forum spammers the site went away. Some of the things that I and others found is that you had to give them snails (pest snails seem to work best,) at a minimum of once a month, but preferably most often, as it helped in grinding their teeth down so that they don't over so big that they can't eat. They like to school in groups of 5 to 10, but they also needed places to hide and get away from the others. The "rule of thumb" that we used was that it was 1 for every three gallons, but one needed to do water changes at least once a week. They will also get to know you. I had some on a desk tank that would come up and watch me as I did stuff on the Internet. They are a great fish to have, but not for beginners.
Dwarfs don't need grinding of teeth
Are they gregarious fish?
Bought my first pea puffer this year, drove two hours to get her and i love her !!!!
I have six that I have kept with amano shrimp for a couple of years now. I've provided ghost shrimp and snails as something for them to hunt for, but the amano seem to be too big, active and tough for the pea puffers to bother. If anyone would want to try, probably not the worst idea to buy larger or grow-out younger ones before adding them to an established tank. I put mine in at the same time as the pea puffers who were juveniles at the time.
Just picked up 3 of these little beauties for a 20gallon. They’ve only been in there a day or 2 so are still a touch shy but are coming out of themselves. Soooo cool!
It's really great fish. I keep puffer for 4 years, he is my favorite. When he grew up with neocaridina shrimp things go's fine, they don't interesting him. But when he became adult- eating them with pleasure, also eating snails eggs. Now lives in own tank.
Thanks for yousfull info. Thanks for the useful information. And popularization this guys!
Hi, keep going guys, I love what you do! I have started my own aquarium-related business recently and your advice has always been helpful :)
Eenie and Meenie did so good in this video! 🥰🥰
You just had to say their names didn't you!?!
Those names are precious! 😍
My female pea puffer (i named her sweet-pea) has been in a 6 gallon tank for about 6 or 7 months, was in a 4 gallon for 6 months before that and is doing great, i have her with a couple of amano shrimp, which she doesnt bother at all, and a couple of nerites. For the first month i had her she was in a 5 gallon with my super old silver molly but started biting the mollies fins, so i had to take her out. Other than her being VERY shy she is a wonderful fish and is a joy to watch eat little snails.
So I’ve got 3 male and 3 female in my 30 gallon and lately it’s been very entertaining! And a lot of matting going on! I’m so excited I don’t know how it’s gonna turn out but they all pick on each other but they get along and mate multiple times with different partners lol
I love my PeaPuffers. I do a species only with some Ottos. They were frustrating at first to get them eating, but now they are fatties. My LFS insists they need salt, but the reason I went with them is because they don’t. Great video as always. Love from Wisconsin!
I have 15 pea puffers in my LowBoy and they will "school" around together in a schoal of 5-10 normally
That is a great tank for them!
That’s so cool! I’d love a low boy one day. That and what a sight to see them school together. Right on :)
I just got a little puffer myself and I thought of Joanna and how excited she gets talking about them. 😊 Thank you for your education.
I love my pea puffers. I have five in a 29 gallon tall. They live with 2 bristle nosed plecos. The peas leave the plecos alone and the plecos are growing fat eating left over blood worms and snail parts. Their tank has hardscape and plants. I found that is a must; it allows the puffers to have their own territories.
That's a nice combo!
I had a set of 4 pea puffers a couple years ago. Loved them! But they picked on the mystery snail a lot and I ended up taking the snail out of that tank. So I guess it depends. Loved the video! These little guys dont get enough appreciation.
I tried a big mystery with my 2 females. They were going to rip its tentacles off in the first 5 minutes!
Mine picked on our mystery snail too. I love them equally so now we have two tanks. Tiny puffer and large snail but he didn't know he was so tiny. Like the pomeranian who was barking at my boxer today.
Love the size of that tank. Hard to find longer tanks, which is what I think fish are happier in.
Those Celestial Pearls are looking NICE!!!
I have a 32g cube with 10 pea puffers, 12 brigittea rasboras and a thriving colony of cherry shrimp. It's possible some of the shrimp get picked off from time to time but I've never seen the peas even look at the shrimp. It's well planted. I have two males and eight females they will school together especially when stressed like on waterchange day. No breeding observed yet been about a year now. Love your channel keep up the great job!
How did you introduce your puffers to the tank? Did you establish the other species first, giving them a chance to establish some sort of clout, before adding the bullies? I'm in the middle of setting up a tank for these assertive lima beans. Any suggestions are welcome.
@@gordonyork6638 no actually I got the puffers first. Then shrimp, and after about a month I added the first 6 rasboras. It may have been a month later I added the rest of the rasboras. Mine are not all that aggressive. Like I said I may have more shrimp if the shrimp were alone I don't know for sure though. At feeding time the shrimp will swim through the water all excited and the puffers basically ignore them.
Holy Crap!!! Almost 100K SUBS!!! I’ve been watching for some time now but just realized where PTA was at😁 Awesome Job!
So happy to see this! I have been prepping a 29 gallon since pre- covid for pea puffers. Can’t find them local. Will look at Flip Aquatics. Thank you!
Good luck with them!
I got a free fluval spec from someone, 5 gallons, and I wanted just 1 fish, but not a betta, I immediately thought of pea puffers when considering it!! I've always wanted one but I was doing huge community tanks for a while, but that got too hard for me so I'm doing smaller tanks for around the past year or 2, and it's been so easy to care for, and my live plants are thriving where in big tanks they always died!
Jason those are the most beautiful CPDs I have ever seen!
Thank you!
I have Seven of those Perfect Fish👌🏼 They are in 33 Galllons without any other fish and are very Healthy🙃
I have 6 in a 30 tall. Dirted tank with a valesneria forest. I tossed in some cherry shrimp to see how they would react. They ate a couple of the tiny babies, but totally ignore the sub-adults and adults...
I have four Pea Puffers in an eight-gallon tank for about a year now. It is heavily planted. I have a colony of neocaridina that cleans up the dead snail mess that Pea Puffers create. My wife is not a big fan of most of the fish I keep except these guys! 😁
Do you know what the male to female ratio is?
They are adorable
sorry ik you posted this a long time ago but i was wondering if your puffers ever attack your shrimp? i'd love to get some to help with cleaning but i don't want them to get eaten :(
@@hugohudson1112 one male and three female
@@abbyfoxall5468 my neocaridinas are thriving in my pea puffer tank but I think it's because I created a good amount of places for them to hide.
My female is in a planted 29 with some tetras, a pair or kerbensis, and a gourami. She does amazing. Great vid, hit everything on the head👍
when I had my dwarf puffers, they seemed to get along just fine, and actually seemed to school together. Something that I learned when owning them is how they tend to get stressed very easily, and this can lead to very wierd behaviors. As long as the dwarf puffers feel safe, I don't believe they should have any problems with each other. something else to keep in mind is that you need to keep the filter or some sort of oxygen flow in the tank at all times, as the dwarf puffers don't handle well without it. (This happened to me a lot during power outages. after only 2 hours, the puffers will become lethargic unless you add some sort of oxygen flow.) The one nice thing about dwarf puffers is it is easy to tell when something is bothering them. they will either be more lethargic, or not eat as much. Edit: both of my dwarf puffers were male puffers, but they ended up getting along pretty well. even when food was involved, they never really got into any fights.
Their so cute . I used to have two of them years ago . But i only kept a pair, mine got on ok . Thanks for the vid it triggered great memories of keeping them , mine preferred live food. Thats what i fed mine . Mine loved bloodworms the most
I love the way regular neons and black neons look together because they school as one species and a pea puffer would be the perfect centerpiece fish💯🌱🐡💙🔥
I have 3 males in a 30 gallon with plenty of fish (algae eaters, dwarf gourami's, and tetras) they do just fine. Plenty of hiding spaces for everyone :)
My LFS just got these. So cute! I want some!
Sweet!
Every time I search up stuff about cichlids or other aquarium fish your RUclips videos pop up so I subscribed.
Glad you are here!
I guess I got really lucky. I finally got a pea puffer and put it in my male Betta/endlers 5 gallon tank. I must have picked an easy going puffer because I had problems at 1st with my Betta picking on my puffer. The best thing to do is introduce the puffer last so that everyone else is settled. They all get along now.
Thank u for the helpful info .I'm looking into getting pea puffers. I always do my research before getting any new fish . I have 5 fish tanks
I had thought of getting some sort of puffer but haven't decided on tank size yet. Great video!
Keep my girl with an African Dwarf Frog in a 6 gal. It works out well and she leaves him alone. I like to imagine they're friends now 😌 Moving to a 15 soon
I have mine with two adf and three corys and they all leave each other alone!
I feed mine grindal worms they go nuts for them.
I love these guys and I really want to add them to my tank someday. Thank you for all the information on the care for them! I hope you have a very blessed day my friends 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
You have a magically enchanted day as well ;-)>
@@kinglyzard 🤗❤️✌️
Thank you, these are the custest lil guys!
In Germany we call them Erbsenkugelfisch. I have 3 sweet Pea Puffer with beautiful eyes. They are very robust. The problem is their hunger. I have several aquarium basim for snail farming.
I have a 25g densely planted cube, included with 8 pea puffers and surprisingly a horde of cherry shrimp culls. I have a colony in my community tank so I tried to throw in a few and see what happened… and now I have two colony’s.
I have an empty 25g cube. Can you provide images for reference??? (Imgur maybe?)
I really like the people for hopefully I'll add one or two to my collection someday thank you for the info always love your videos 👍👍
Great informative video - I love pea puffers - I have a group of 5 that are about 12 months old in my community tank, tiny fish - very big personality 🥰 🇬🇧
I just got 3 pea puffers and they are pretty cool but very high maintenance. 2 of them have nice round bellies but the 3rd smaller one seems to be a more finicky eater, but all of them are pretty picky. They will eat pond snails when I toss them in and frozen bloodworms, but that is all I have gotten them to eat so far. They weren't interested in frozen brine shrimp or krill. I'm culturing some scuds so hopefully they will enjoy going after the scuds. My LFS sells live brine shrimp, maybe I will try those as well
I have a 50 breeder planted with 20 peas couple Corey cats a bristlenose pleco and a few hillstream loaches been 5 years now with no problems one of my favorite puffer tanks and I have 7 different puffer tanks but it all started with my peas adorable little Puffer they have no idea there little
I had two Pea Puffers in a tank with two grown Cory cats. They were relentlessly nipping on the cats.
I have 3 dwarfs in my tank, I absolutely love them🥰🥰🥰
This was great, thank you! Love these little fish, but not ready for them yet.
Pea puffers are by far one of the hardest fish to care for, in my experience. Although, they can tolerate a relatively wide range of water parameters, it's their strict diet requirements that really prevented me from ever having any real success in keeping them. Can never get them to feed on anything other than frozen bloodworms. Even then, they are reluctant to take them after they've been thawed out for more than a day. They will not eat any other frozen foods and obviously can't feed them dried food. The batch that I had also were not actively hunting any pest snails which I found odd. They may have been suffering from internal parasite though. These fish are so picky, they would literally rather starve to death than take any food you offer them. NEVER getting these fish again.
Have a 20 gallon tall, with 3 puffers 1male, 2 female. 6 ember tetra, 3 pom pom crabs, a decent colony of cherry shrimp, and 4 kuhli loaches. Plus a mystery snail
These have got to be my most favorite fresh water fish I have ever kept. They will come to the glass and follow you!
They sure do!
I've also had good experience with green spotted puffers. Theyre a little more of a challenge due to the challenge of weaning them ontonl increasing amounts of salt depending on size. Well worth the challenge in my opinion.
I love those little fish, and wish I could have some right now. Concentrating on breeding fish right now though. Another awesome video Jason thank you.
i got mine in a 40 breader with corys, golden algea eaters, phatom tetras, ember tetras, neon cardinals and cherry shrimp. they doing fine and tend to ignore the other fish
Mine will actually eat Vibra Bites, which is a relief because it was getting skinny on blood worms only.
I love pea puffers. I got some and they are the best!
I see a charelvoix stone in your tank I have one as well
Those are awesome!
My pea puffers are tank/couch surfers.They do like bladder snail.
Galaxy rasbora in your tank is gorgeous. I really want to get some but my fish store sells out everytime they get them in! I know it's not recommended but solo schooling fish always have so much personality
You could try Flip Aquatics? They often have them.
I got mine from Flip Aquatics too and they are doing great.
Good to hear!
I have 5 in a 36g bow front..I got them as tiny little guys. I ended up with 1 male and 4 females (I heard that if you have all juveniles that one will become male who will then release a chemical so the others don’t become males? Or something like that)..anyways, I had Amano shrimp with mine for a long time. No issues. I’ve learned that mine at least are afraid of anything larger than they are. Amanos get larger than your average pea. I also put in Cory’s, golden killifish, zebras, tetras, Otos and a snowball pleco with a bristle nose. I also have a clown pleco that chills in his cave all day. Seems like a lot, but it’s heavily planted and the killifish and zebras stay mostly towards the top. I also run 2 filters which turns my tank like 500g a hour or something like that. I have no issues. Only chasing between all the fish is between their own.
Maybe I got lucky 🤷♀️
My little puffer shares her 5 gallon portrait tank with a huge ghost shrimp. They make a comical pair. She is a challenge to feed though. She doesn't care for bloodworms much. I set up a small tank to raise snails for her. While I don't get a lot of snails, she loves to eat whatever the other little critters are that appeared magically in that tank. They look like some kind of crustacean and sort of leap through the water. There are hundreds of them. I net a few of them for her every day. She loves hunting and eating them (so does the shrimp).
Sounds like scuds. You can set these up to breed in a 5 gallon bucket outside - super easy! They breed like crazy and are healthy for your puffer :)
Great review.
I love these puffers. Would the frozen foods be enough for them. I really don’t want to feed them snails.
I think so :-)
The CPD looks great in that lighting!
What you lighting that tanks with?!!!
We have a 6ft Beamswork light running the entire length of the row.
I've got 4 pea puffers in a 55gallon tank with a small school of rummy nose and shrimp. It's been this way for about 2 months now and everybody seems to be getting along. 😁
Good to hear!
How'd it go,? I want to do the same
Great video, thanks!
Thanks for the video. I have always wondered about pea puffers and the ph, hardness, temperature they will thrive in. I am surprised at the large range of ph they can live in. This was a great educational video. I will be watching it again. 👍🐠
Thank you! Ya, they are pretty easy going in that regard.
incredible little fish
I love my pea puffer group and can't wait to upgrade them to a 4ft long tank .
I've got mine with micro rasboras and a micro synodontis species and had no issue at all with them all together as I had been told on many occasions to keep them in a pea puffer only tank . But I also know people who have had the pea puffers kill anything and everything in the tank including the other pea puffers so I can see how they have the nick name murder beans
Ok no Shrimp got it but what about Mexican Mini Lobsters? Please hope you answer my question bro and one more thing...Can i put in a Scarlet Badis with the Pea Puffer?
I haven't tried that combo, but my guess is the pea puffers might try to pick at them. The scarlet badis could go either way - tough to say for sure. Obviously, the larger the tank the higher probability of success.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Thank you so much for Responding, i have a Baby Pea Puffer he looks like the size of Frye lol so i just took the risk of putting them 2 together and i ordered a Scarlet Badis from Flips Aquatics, thanks for mentioning them that's been a dream fish for me especially since they sell mostly males 🙏🙌
I have a 20g long with 5 pea puffers. One 'pair' are acting a bit odd. I'm not sure if they are canoodeling, or picking on each other. Can you show breeding behavior in pea puffers so I can compare?
I had five babies in Feb, but sadly and for an unknown reason I lost 'Big Momma'. The alpha male is a whopper and keeps the others in check, although he just hides behind shrubs now. They all have their own personalities. I love them to bits. You have to keep a close eye on them and water quality.
They have an interesting community dynamic for sure!
Great information, excellent vid.
I had 10 pea puffers in my 55g with dwarf rainbowfish. The rainbowfish fins were getting wrecked. Decided to keep the puffers in with my snowball shrimps. The snails didn't really survive, but the snowballs are still alive.
Definitely second buying your peas from Flip Aquatics, they’re one of the very few online retailers that actually medicate and pre-quarantine their fish before selling and that’s a definite must before buying puffers (unless you plan to medicate yourself)
Bought 3 in August and they are a comical trio (ended up with all females) also definitely suggest overfiltering their tanks & starting a snail colony months before actually purchasing. It takes at least 3-4 weeks to get an “eatable” size pest snail. Started a colony in May and they’ve gone through 3 generations since August.
Glad they are working out well for you! :-)
I have a 5g miniature guppy tank..I overfeed that to get snails..it's a never ending job..😁😁
Thank you so much Jason.. I can't choose between Goby's or Pea Puffers for my perfectly cycled tank....
THat is a tough choice. I really like gobies. :-)
@@PrimeTimeAquatics they have personality... I had two, a couple and a Channa Stewartii and each time the White Cheek Goby finished digging, the Channa looking over from behind a rock, swam into it, forcing Goby to go dig another home.. I have vidéos of them..
Omg they are sooooo cute
They are!
they look funny and adorable too
I'm thinking about getting some for my 20 gallon long.
This is a very helpful video I’m wanting to breed my pea puffers do you have anymore tips on breading them
If you see babies I light fry to move them to another tank or separate the parents and any other community fish somehow.
Great tutorial. Excellent.
Thank you!
Quick question Jason . If I may , I’ll be building a new heavy planted scaped 6gallon UN long that is 24 inches long. I want a group of 5 chili rasboras , 3 pigmy coradoras with a handful of red cherry shrimp. Would a tiny baby pea puffer eat my shrimp and chill rasboras? In my setup? Tank it’s not setup yet still waiting on my heater and filter so I can get started with my scape
It’s possible it may try to eat the shrimp.
Very nice! There are two valid species and possibly a third (undescribed one) found in Southern India. Thank you for such a wonderful video. 🧡🧡
The two valid ones are Carinotetradon Travancorius and Carinotetradon imitator, correct me if I'm wrong
@@aneethasalim5814 Only the spelling of the genus epithet: Carinotetraodon. The rest is correct! 🙂
@@Roonlovesfish3874 sorry that was a mistake
I just got my first pea puffers here we go 6 puffers 40gal
Hi! Ive been watching your great videos for a long time now and recently you got my favorite fish of all time! Nanochromis splendens! I really hope you are going to do a segment on that little jewel of the lower Congo!
We have them set up in a sweet 20 long that Joanna just re-scaped. Oh the male is looking sooo awesome right now!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Lucky you! i hope you enjoy second of them! I am actually in the process of setting up a lower congo biotope. A 6.5 feet stream tank, Im planning to stock with Nanochromis splendens and consortus( if I can get them, that is!) + steatocranus tinanti.
Thank you for all the great job you are doing!
Greetings from a swede.
Great video all facts no nonsense thank you
Great informative video. I have a pair of Pea Puffers in a species only 10 gallon planted tank.
Nice !
My baby pea puffer is in my beta tank and never nipped him once. I believe it’s because it’s the diet it feed them (blood worms) which they both eat. plus some tiny snails for his teeth
So I have 3 puffers sadly they are all male. I also have a big mystery snail n amano and cherry shrimp. Honestly they don't mess with anything except the mystery snail. But I plan to move them to a heavily planted tank. Can't wait to move them. They are honestly some of the most curious fish I have ever owned
I have 7 pea puffers, 1 male and 6 female, with neocardinia shrimp in a 55g long but now that I know I can keep other fish I might try that. Maybe emerald eye rasboras or just kuhli loaches.
I have 14 of them in a 30 gallon. And i do not see a problem with them. About 8 even school sometimes and move together as a group. They seem to get along great. At least for me.
How old is your tank bro ?
@@aj99ke83 its been set up about 6 months now.
Another great food for pea puffers is the mexican battle shrimp Hyalella azteca. It breeds quite well and has a certain crunchiness. However, it is hard to get rid of in tanks without pea puffers.
I have an ongoing battle with these guys (also known as scuds.)
My pea puffer does NOT eat them.
Been reducing the number by manually picking them out and setting food in a net to trap them.
Do not put them into your tank as a food for pea puffers, they will completely ignore them and they will eat all your moss
I have a large shrimp colony with my pea puffers 🥲 sometimes they’ll eat the babies for a snack
Cool fish jason i wood live to have a puffer fish in my aquarium thats a cool tank you have where can i get a puffer fish and also can i get one in a freshwater
I have a beautiful pair in a very heavily planted 10 gallon with a ton of structure to it as. I feel like I am wasting so much space with 2 fish that both equal 2 inches. I would like to try out a few tank mates. I have been getting into nano fish lately. I tried head and tail tetra and the pea puffers ate their fins, and worked them into ick. This was before I knew better. The tank was prefect for them, I was told that the tetra should do good cuz they are big and fast.
Not relayed to the puffers but I just had to say that’s a beautiful red Ancistrus. I have a 2 year old female that’s around the same size
what is that really nice blue wifh with red fins