6 gallon nano for dwarf puffer

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I have a 6 gallon JBJ nano that I am planning on setting up at work. At first I was going to do a marine tank with a couple of sexy shrimp but now I am thinking about doing a fresh water with a single dwarf puffer.

If I make it a puffer tank I want to have live plants but have zero experience keeping them. How difficult would it be to have a few hardy live plants in a 6 gallon nano cube? I know it would be species specific but do you find you must do much pruning when you have live plants?

I have read that 3 gallons per 1 puffer is a good rule but I would probably keep only one. Any inverts work ok with dwarfs? I know snails will be food.
 
I'll have to agree, too small, and any tank mates will likely end up dinner from what I've heard. Plus most DP like brackish water, I'm not sure how the shrimp would do.

The only time I've really done any pruning is removing old/dead/dying leaves from my banana plants, and weeding out the cobomba.
 
This particular puffer is fresh not brackish, it is fresh water only throughout it's life span. I don't disagree with you on the tank size but do some searchs...most people keeping them have them in tiny tanks. I have seen them in person and was very surprised by their size...all I have seen where under an inch long.
 
Just because they survive in a small tank is not a valid reason to keep them in a small tank.

You can keep danios in a 10 gallon tank, but I would never have them in anything less than a 20 long. Bettas can live in cups, but doesn't mean you should keep it a cup.

And please re-read my post, I said most, not all.
 
A 6g is fine for a single 1" DP. You could keep an otocinclus in there & some folks even have sucess with grass shrimp & other larger shrimp.
 
puffer punk has the right idea. its 1" long. if a 1" shrimp or neon could go in it why not the puffer.

they dont swim s much as a danio
i dont disagree about what ddehaven said except
that it can be done with the puffer in the 6g
 
DDeHaven II said:
Just because they survive in a small tank is not a valid reason to keep them in a small tank.

You can keep danios in a 10 gallon tank, but I would never have them in anything less than a 20 long. Bettas can live in cups, but doesn't mean you should keep it a cup.

And please re-read my post, I said most, not all.
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Couldn't agree more about small tanks DDe but I had already done some research and concluded 6 gallons would be fine for one small dp. My question was specifically about any issues I might have with that particular nano tank and keeping live plants.

I caught the most; I was just letting you know this particular species requires fresh water.
 
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