BumbleeBee Gobies or Dwarf Puffers

justintoxicated

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Help me decide what will be a more interesting fish.

My last bee gobies died, one jumped the tank and the other just died. He was getting better but I guess it did not like the brackish environment or something...(his fins were healing from pet store condition but it died anyways)

I have a 3 gallon eclipse that currently has crushed coral substrate (could change back to blue gravel though.

What would be a more interesting fish?

I want to put either 2 BB Gobies or 2 dwarf puffers into my 3 gallon eclipse that currently has 3 guppies and a couple trumphet snails (movie guppies to a new home of course). I know the Puffer would probably munch on the snails...Oh well I don't want them going into my other tanks anyways.
 
ok thanks then I will go witht eh BB gobies. My Guppies don't want to leave the tank are are for some reason growing faster than those in my 20 and 10 gallon.

On the Dwarf puffer site they did recomend 3 gallons per puffer so i figured I could get at least one, but if you don't think it is a good idea I can go with BB Gobies then. The dwarfs I have sceen are much smaller than the guppies I have in there now.
 
RTR are you sure it is too small for a single dwarf puffer?

This 3 gallon is the longer Eclipse one with filter and light for it. I would have to add some plants fot the guy.

on www.dwarfpuffers.com they recomend 3 gallons per fish.

Either way I am going to do water changes every day untill the salt level is not distinguisable, since if I buy BB Gobies they will likely be coming from a freshwater environment.
 
Do you have a heater in that tank? I was thinking of getting one of the Eclipse models, probably a 5-6 gallon to keep one or two fish and I wondered if I could add a heater if need be to avoid any wild temperature fluctations I can get here in the midwest.

I was thinking of a Bumblebee Goby but if it's too much trouble to keep a brackish tank that small I might just go freshwater and put a lone Betta in it.
 
RTR one is fine with me, maybe add a ghost shrimp for scavenger? Is this a bad idea? Otherwise I will jsut keep this tank for fry, but I think I'm better off keeping ONE fry tank and well whatever makes it past the larger fry guppys gets to live. Otherwise the population is just way way way out of controll. I'm already working on ending massive breeding of guppies.

My Tank does not have a heater but I also don't belive it really needs one, the light itself and the Fact I live in California seem to keep the tank at a decent temp.

I have mystery snails living in a vivarium without a heater as well. When it gets close to winter if I notice temp problems I could pickup a 25 watter, and yes you can add them I had a 50 in there before it just never turned on since the light keeps the tank warmer than I would like already.

The only thing that worries me is crunchies for this guy, I hear dwarfs don't need snails to wear down their teeth like other puffers, not sure if I would be happy dropping baby mysteries in for snacks or not. But I am currently breeding those as well...
 
:devil: Puffers love to be housed with ghost shrimp.

:help: The shrimp love it not so much...

I think shrimp and puffers would be great, but you'll need hiding places so the puffer doesn't hunt the shrimp all down and eat them right away.
 
My DPs don't bother shrimp at all. Sometimes the opposite, the shrimp steal the DPs bloodworms. Some folks DPs will kill and eat shrimp, individual variation between puffers, as unpredictable. But ghost shrimp are good scavengers.
 
BB Gobies are strictly brackish, if yours died in a brackish tank I would question the salinity of your tank or the overall quality of the water. What salinity do you keep your tank at? Stupid question but you are using Marine salt and not aquarium salt arent you?
 
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