Hi Planter,
I just thought I'd let you know that with the little puffs, you have to keep feeding them snails to trim down their beaks otherwise if they get overgrown, they cannot eat and die. Luckily you don't have the colomesus asellus ones, which I had and you had to anaethetise them and actually trim their teeth - nightmare! I have a little plastic tank with some moss balls that sits on my window with snails in and they breed like mad - there isn't a filter. I just water change 1 a week, 100%
I now have 10, soon to be 15 dwarf puffs in my planted tank with otos and I did have a couple of small plecs in their. Mine have all been fine, but I think as long as there is plenty to search for in the tank, it'll help to even out their aggression. Each puffer is completely different, so you can only hope for the best!
I also just wanted to say that the photo you showed, the puff has a slightly concave belly. This would indicated that he has internal parasites. Nothing to worry about, most of them do because they are all wild caught, but it can kill them. You need to get a wormer which you can get at aqua essentials, google or any shop for discus. Just dose it once a week for a few weeks and soon they'll have fat little bellies and will be much happier.
Do you know how many females or males you have as well?
I just thought I'd let you know that with the little puffs, you have to keep feeding them snails to trim down their beaks otherwise if they get overgrown, they cannot eat and die. Luckily you don't have the colomesus asellus ones, which I had and you had to anaethetise them and actually trim their teeth - nightmare! I have a little plastic tank with some moss balls that sits on my window with snails in and they breed like mad - there isn't a filter. I just water change 1 a week, 100%
I now have 10, soon to be 15 dwarf puffs in my planted tank with otos and I did have a couple of small plecs in their. Mine have all been fine, but I think as long as there is plenty to search for in the tank, it'll help to even out their aggression. Each puffer is completely different, so you can only hope for the best!
I also just wanted to say that the photo you showed, the puff has a slightly concave belly. This would indicated that he has internal parasites. Nothing to worry about, most of them do because they are all wild caught, but it can kill them. You need to get a wormer which you can get at aqua essentials, google or any shop for discus. Just dose it once a week for a few weeks and soon they'll have fat little bellies and will be much happier.
Do you know how many females or males you have as well?