how would they do????

[animal lover]

Well I haven't posted anything in a while, had a huge dilema in my 55g, all my fish died except 6...So I lost about 20 or so fish, it really sucked.....but on to newer things....I was just wondering if my Gourami's could handle brackish water or would that be to much salt for them...I was just thinking of getting a couple dwarf puffers, or a couple figure eights or both...but if they can't handle the salt or if for any reason anyone may have for not mixing these fish I will definatly wait to get them...Any opinions on this are appreciated as I don't want to endanger any fish with salt overdose or anything else...Thanx in advance guys, hope to hear from ya soon

 

[Lotus]

I wouldn't recommend gouramis in brackish. Dwarf puffers are strictly freswater. Puffers don't generally make good community fish at all. This site has a lot of info on suitable brackis fish: http://users.macunlimited.net/n.monks/brackfaq.html

 

[timisu87]

What happened to your previosu tank?

 

[lordroad]

Wow, Lotus, thanks for linking to that... very enlightening about the puffers, especially the ones that are usually listed as brackish. The info runs contrary to everything I've read about the green spotted puffer, the Tetraodon nigroviridis. A local fish store sells these guys, and I always figured they were brackish. I guess people get confused with the full brackish species, the Tetraodon fluvialitis.

 

[leck85]

dwarf puffers like salt, but arent really a full brackish fish... they do like to nip fins of bigger slower fish.. kinda like gouramis.. but if you have them in a 55g tank with lots of hiding places they might be ok

 

[animal lover]

thanks Lotus....I wasn't necessarily looking at making my tank brackish it was just that I was thinking of getting the puffers and always noted that they are brackish but if they are not then it would make life a lot easier....What do you think of mixing the dwarfs with the Gouramis...I know they are fin nippers but the gouramis are quite quick and with it being a large tank do you think it's feesable????I'm just trying to get some opinions to help me make my decision...Thanx

 

[punkrockfish]

im going with a no on the puffers in a community tank, they really do best in a species tank or by themselves due to their aggression

 

[Lotus]

This is another site on which puffers are FW and which are BW. It's based on discussions on the puffer forum, so I guess it's pretty accurate: http://home.messiah.edu/~dw1178/pufferlist.htm

There is a lot of misinformation on the Web (and in LFSs) about puffers, and which ones are BW and which are FW. The puffer forum has a lot of people with good experience on puffers, and they seem to know for sure which are which.