:feedback: :help2: i have never owned a salt water fish until now. i bought 2 small puffer fish and have them in a 1 1/2 gal. aquarium. i need help to better my knowledge on how to care for them. i need help learning anything from feeding to the most extremities there are. i dont know much of anything about them but i really wanna learn. please :help2::feedback:
never had a salt water before please HELP!!!!
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what species of puffer do you have? There isn't a single puffer that belongs in anything less than a 5 gallon. I also noticed that you have a 10 gallon, which is extremely overstocked. Goldfish require colder water than glo-fish and bettas, and have outgrown your tank. Male and female bettas wil also fight to the death if not properly conditioned first, so you'll run into problems there. Also, your male betta may find the goldfish as a threat and kill them, and the glo-fish will look like food to him.
What kind of saltwater puffers did you buy that can fit in a 1 1/2 gallon? The only species I can think of are dwarf puffers and they are definitely freshwater fish. And 1 1/2 g is still small for them.
I owned one of the small saltwater puffers and they shouldn't go in less than like 20g. That's minimum and not optimum.
As far as feeding and such we NEED to know exactly what species you have. If you don't know could you take pictures?
Glo-fish (danios) don't look like food to bettas. They're not nearly small enough. If anything the glo-fish might pick on the betta's fins. A betta would have trouble catching up to a glo-fish, even a plakat.
I owned one of the small saltwater puffers and they shouldn't go in less than like 20g. That's minimum and not optimum.
As far as feeding and such we NEED to know exactly what species you have. If you don't know could you take pictures?
Goldfish get much larger than bettas, and bettas don't tend to be aggressive toward goldfish anyway. But they're not compatible temperature wise. Bettas are tropical fish, goldfish are not.
Glo-fish (danios) don't look like food to bettas. They're not nearly small enough. If anything the glo-fish might pick on the betta's fins. A betta would have trouble catching up to a glo-fish, even a plakat.
Please return the puffer before you find it dead. Then come back here & do some research. Or look here: www.thepufferforum.com.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Marine/
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Marine/