5.5 gallon puffer tank :)

Very nice tank. But as mentioned, puffer fish naturally eat invertebrates. This one may not have eaten any in the past, but I would not recommend purchasing any expensive shrimp to be housed with your puffer. I also wouldn't keep any shrimp that you really like with it.

Good luck
 
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Shrimp - It's basically a gamble with shrimp. Some dwarves don't even notice them, while others will rip them to shreds within minutes! I have had a great deal of success keeping Amano Shrimp with my Dwarf Puffers so far, but I know that as soon as the puffers find out the shrimp are tasty, that will be the end of their peaceful coexistence! I would suggest buying some ghost shrimp from the local fish store and giving it a shot. Ghost shrimp are a very inexpensive feeder food, so if your puffers eat them, you're not out much money and the dwarves have gotten a great meal out of it. If they don't eat them, then the shrimp will make an excellent "cleanup crew" for your puffer tank.... scavenging the bottom and cleaning up any leftover food.
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Lots of people have shrimp with there dwarf puffers, but i have never ever heard of anyone succesfuly keeping any kind of small invert with any other kind of puffer. Dp's are a bit different i guess but he really doesnt even care about the shrimp. Matter of fact tonight him and a shrimp faught over a worm ... and the shrimp won!

Got a video of him eating blood worms. Tward the end when i point the camera in a dark part of the rocks and you dont see anything there was a shrimp there but he disapeard lol.. little bugger



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Nice, though it looks like your filter intake strainer needs some cleaning.
 
Nice tank, and nice lawn too!
 
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