Lindy
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You don't need to feed snails as these guys don't have a beak to keep down. I feed frozen bloodworm with snails as an occassional treat. I don't know about the numbers though, I got two which turned out to be a male and female. The courtship is pretty violent so recently I bought another two from kesgrave tropicals asking for 2 females. Of course they sent 2 males which my male set about trying to kill and the female wasn't much better. So got lucky and found a brilliant home for them but I don't know how larger mixed group would work. If you could sex them and get one male to 4 female or just 5 females. The males can be identified often by their irridescent eye wrinkles even when they are small but I guess it depends on how wee these guys are. There is a dwarf puffer web site and forum with pictures and info. They recon one puffer per 30cm sq but there is a guy in japan breeding them in tanks the size mine are in and my pair act the same as they did in the bigger tank ie beg for food all the time and feed from hand. The male is just as randy as ever...
I know what you mean about youtube though but I think these people can keep large numbers in barren tanks because the fish never establish a territory(maybe?) and you don't know how long they live/health etc..Be interesting to see how the seller keeps hers. I thought about trying to find eggs and raise them etc but the last thing I need is more puffers! I relied on my amanos and strong filter to take care of eggs...
I know what you mean about youtube though but I think these people can keep large numbers in barren tanks because the fish never establish a territory(maybe?) and you don't know how long they live/health etc..Be interesting to see how the seller keeps hers. I thought about trying to find eggs and raise them etc but the last thing I need is more puffers! I relied on my amanos and strong filter to take care of eggs...