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zebra pleco with an amazon puffer fish?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:55 pm
by kiril
do you think that would be a good combination? i really want zebra plecos and some puffer fish, but i dont know if they would be good together in the same tank
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:21 pm
by Barbie
It would be a bad idea. Puffers tend to exist on fins and occasionally eyeballs when kept with other fish. That's an awfully expensive experiment 
. They have those sharp teeth for a reason. It's really hard to make them understand they should only eat the cheap stuff!
Barbie
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:38 am
by husky_jim
I also agree with Barbie on this.Even the fact that Amazon Puffers (Collomesus Asellus) are infact one of the most peacefull puffer spiece they are also fin nippers setting zebreas in danger.
Mind also the care that a puffer needs, and i mean a continius supply of snails in order to trim their sharp tooth naturaly because if it grows big it needs then trimming by hand which is a difficult procedure to do.Else the puffer stops eating from the huge tooth then starve and soon die....
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:03 am
by Mindy
Don't do it. Puffers, great fish though they are, really should only be kept in a species tank.