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I have found that you can not always rely on everything you read.
Ceylon Puffers are supposed to be one of the more peaceful puffers. In my case that wasn't true. Target fish can be housed with Monos and Archers. My experience in different.
"Warning Label":
Use what you read as a guide line, result can differ between keepers.
A peaceful puffer is still a puffer, just as cichlids are still cichlids -schooling tetras they are not. But compared to their cousins, they are peaceful.
Pufferpunk
10-04-2003, 8:08 PM
Don't targetfish have some kind of "spear" on their sides to slice up other fish?
Yep those gill spurs.
The first year I had my 90 gal setup I had pretty much what I have now.
5 Sebae Monos 2.5"
5 Argentine Monos 2.5"
1 GSP 2"
1 F8P .5"
etc...
I decided to get this Ceylon Puffer he was the exact same size as my GSP. that night he killed 3 sebae monos (well I woke up the next morning and there was their chewed up bodies. I didn't know what had happened I couldn't figure it out. Until a few hours later when I came back to see the ceylon puffer chasing the fourth sebae mono around the tank. The sebae was already half eaten. I immediately took the Ceylon Puffer out and took him back to the LFS and asked for my money back and told her what the puffer had done. When I got back the fourth had died.
:(
This is why I say what I said.
I have a great community of fish now and they all get along.
And for those that didn't they are all in a tank together and they get along.
1 Target fish
1 Mangrove Red Snapper
3 Shark Catfish
The Shark Catfish never got a chance to be in the community tank since I knew they needed lots of room to swim around so I gave them their own tank right off the bat.
Pufferpunk
10-04-2003, 9:36 PM
I'm afraid as your GSP gets larger, you will come across the same sort of aggression toward your monos & F8.
Actually, my GSP is growing the slowest of all my fish.
The F8P tries to hang with my GSP but it aways swims away and the F8P follows. When the GSP is sleeping the F8P swims over and lays on the bottom and curls up next to the GSP and the GSP wakes up and swims away.
It seems that the F8P wants to be "buds" with the GSP.
My GSP acts like a "scare-t-cat" or it is very shy.