Umm. Questin about dwarf puffffer.?

Question

Um. Can you put one in a 10 Gallon tank with 2 zebra danios and a ghost catfish??

Oh and I plan on upgrating it to a 55 can it be with a Sucker fish too?

Answer 1

ok, dwarf puffers are really aggressive. They can take down a fish 2x there size b/c they never leave them alone, plus zebra danios are galss actfish are schooling fish and you need to have 6 of them. Try 3 dwarf puffers in there, with nothing else and when you get a 55 gallon, put 6 glass cats and 6 zebra danios. Sucker fish? Get a smaller sized one, like a bristlenose pleco.

Answer 2

NO! glass (ghost) catfish CANNOT go with puffers, puffers are WAY to aggressive and glass cats are very peaceful and mellow. You have, by the way, a lot of room left in your 10 gallon tank (the rule is an inch of fish per gallon, and since your glass cat is no less than 3 inches and each of your danios are 1 inch each, then 3=1=1 equals 5, and 5 is less than 10 (10 gallons) so you still have room.) The first step is to buy 1-2 more glass catfish, he will probably die soon because they are schooling fish and they get WAY stressed out and become susceptible to disease when kept by themselves. You can upgrade to a 55 gallon, but you still cannot have a puffer, or a plecostomus (sucker fish) for that matter. But there are plenty of fish that can go with the fish you listed: all kinds of tetras (neons, cardinals, serpaes, etc,) dwarf gouramis, mollies, platies, guppies, swordtails, dojo loaches, kuhlii loaches, opaline gouramis, female bettas, and many other standard community fish.) And instead of getting a common plecostomus (sucker fish) you can get either a rubber lipped or a bristlenose pleco, which looks similar but is a lot smaller (because, believe it or not, common plecos, or suckerfish, can bet to be very large, mine is already 18 inches long!!) however bristlenoses and rubber lippeds only get to be about 5 inches. good luck!!!

(p.s. dwarf puffers require some salt in their water, anyway, as their native habitats are estuaries where rivers flow into ocean.)