What shrimp will go with dwarf puffers. ?

Question

I'm planning to get 2 or 3 dwarf puffers in a 15 gallon tank with a few oto catfish. What shrimp can go with them without getting eaten or ripped apart by the puffers. I am aware that they are fin nippers.

Answer 1

Your right most shrimp will get tore up by puffers, i actually feed my puffer ghost shrimp every now and then and he loves it.

Try some bamboo shrimp, theyre pretty big and neat looking; maybe their size will keep the nippy dwarfs at bay. Ive seen them at Petco before, the ones i saw had real cool looking designs and were about 2.5-3inches long!

Hope it works out!!! :)

P.S. Im so jealous, ive been trying to get dwarf puffers for months now and no one around sells them and cant get any in as special order so i got a fig8 puffer instead.

Answer 2

Congrats....

I've been keeping these guys for years...

Don't bother with the Otto's unless you really need. Its a common reflex to get them but don't. there won't be enough algae to feed them and they don't eat the food the puffers do.

It becomes a pain to feed them and it fouls the left overs foul tank.

If the puffers are well fed they may leave the shrimp alonebut it's a gamble.

If they will get a couple Yamato shrimp..they will eat the algae you wanted the ottos to and they will also eat excess puffer food.

Primary puffer food..

bio-pure hikari frozen blood worms....

They like it hot like 80 degrees and try and get 1 male and atleast 2 females.

There a huge bio-load fish so weekly gravel vacuums are required.

read up on them....

http://www.dwarfpuffers.com/

good luck!!!

Answer 3

Honestly, none. Dwarf puffers will kill any shrimp. You can use ghost shrimp to ad variety to their diet!