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How To Keep Green Spotted Puffer Fish [Care Guide]
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hi everyone I'm zenza with the aquarium Co-op and today we're going to cover one of my favorite fish the green spotted puffer now the green spotted puffer is a wonderful fish to keep they're a lot of fun they're interactive they're beautiful to look at and they're kind of in that wet pet category now the green spoted puffer originates in Southeast Asia and it lives in rivers and estuaries kind of near the ocean which we'll cover here in a little bit as far as their appearance they are a medium siiz fish so generally for adults are going to be between 4 to 6 in in length and quite Stout because they are a puffer so think of like a like an egg almost so like an extra- large egg kind of that shape as far as their body size and their body shape um when you find them in stores they'll usually be 2 to 3 in or so in length and just expect them to get about double that size when they're fully grown now first let's start off with tank requirements so what size tank do you need what do you need to put in the tank all that stuff so for a green spoted puffer they are pretty active fish they're active swimmers they're going to be swimming back and forth in that Aquarium and kind of moving around and hunting which we'll cover here in a moment so you're going to want a rather spacious aquarium generally speaking you want about a minimum of a 30 gallon aquarium but a 40 gallon breeder would be better or even anything larger like a 55 obviously try to think about you know making sure that you have at least like a 40 gallon tank for your green spotter puffer um is that's going to give them more space now earlier I had mentioned that in the wild green spot of puffers are in rivers and estuaries near the ocean and that's because the adults are brackish brackish is a mixture of freshwat and saltwater usually in the areas where a river or an estuary meets the ocean and you have that mixture so a green spoted puffer is going to require brackish water because they do require that mineral content that is found in that Reef environment Now setting up a brackish aquarium is not difficult at all so I don't want to scare away any of you in fact we put together an article that's very easy to understand that takes you step by step through the process and you can find that article on the aquarium Co-op website which we'll put a link down below now as I shared this fish does require brackish water so you are going to want to make sure that you're able to provide for that and learn how to put a brackish aquarium together now you probably when you buy your Your Greens spotted puffer most likely the store that has them has kept it in fresh water so it probably went from a brackish environment where it was caught or raised and transported to a wholesaler or something like that uh via freshwater and then in the store is probably in a freshwater uh system as well and they can live in freshh water but they don't Thrive so you are going to want to re acclimate your green spotted puffer back to brackish water so this is done over a period of weeks and in the article that we created on the aquarium Co-op website covers all of that now as far as substrate you can really use any kind of substrate or you can even do a bare bottom aquarium um depending on where you live and your water parameters we would recommend using like a crush Coral or a raganit sand as it does have the buffering qualities that does keep the water parameters right where they should be now regarding water parameters it's brackish and you're going to want to have it somewhere between 1.004 on a specific gravity range up to a full marine environment of 1.022 so with brackish water it fluctuates all the time you don't have to be exact just make sure that you're making a brackish tank and that it's somewhere in that range they are tropical fish so you will need a heater anywhere between 76 de and about 82° F would be fine for the fish and a pH level somewhere between 7.5 and about 8.2 to 8.5 they can survive in all those ranges now with your aquarium it is important to have good water quality so if you're lazy with maintenance if you're not good at cleaning up uneaten food or fish waste then this might not be the fish for you you want to really make sure that it has a clean environment and that you're testing for excess nitrates Etc now you can have plants in your brackish tank there are not a lot of plants that do well in saltwater so I've had success with java fern and with mangr and there might be some other breish plants that are in your area that you have access to that might be able to work just know that you are going to have to keep up on your water changes and won't be able to rely on Plants doing a lot of that natural filtration for you next let's talk about feeding your green spot of puffer now like with most puffers it does require a little bit more thought process and work for the owners with puffers because they do have some specific dietary requirements now the green spoted puffer is a carnivore or a piscor basically it needs to eat meaty type food so that can be fresh frozen freeze dried um they're not really going to take to pellets and Flake foods and things like that so you are going to need to have uh the ability to keep uh Frozen and fresh and even freeze-dried foods so things like frozen bloodworms will be fine you want to have an ample supply of snails they'll eat things like freeze-dried shrimp freeze dried insects like mealor worms and crickets and as well as the live versions of those so live meal worms obviously live shrimp if you have a bunch of shrimp or you have coals or whatever that you need to just kind of filter through um they will eat those small crabs um they can pretty much take down anything with a shell that's at least like half its size and I've seen it do some some pretty spectacular things in my care so puffers have a beak and those beaks need to continually be worn down so you're going to want to make sure that a couple of times per week when you're feeding your Puffer that they are getting some type of hard food like a snail shell or the shell on the back of a shrimp having a tank that might be dedicated to snails so that you have a continual Supply or just having a tank that has snails in them where they kind of do their thing and reproduce often and you're able to catch those and feed them to your Puffer that would be an ideal situation but what about other fish in a tank you might be wondering what else can I put in a green spotted puffer aquarium and that's kind of tricky so they are aggressive like a lot of puffers very feisty and can be pretty aggressive towards other fish you are going to want to make sure sure that the fish that you put in there are large enough or fast enough or feisty enough on their own to not be bothered by the green spotted puffer so that would be things like probably large mollies that are that obviously can live in brackish water night goes monos scats um any kind of larger heartier brackish fish would be okay now if you want to keep another green spotted puffer or another type of brackish puffer then you are going to need a larger cram than that 40 breeder that we talked about probably a minimum 55 gallons but it would be better if you were 75 gallons or larger and if you do that you are going to need a lot of Decor in that tank to have hiding places line of sight break so that the puffer here doesn't see the puffer there and kind of go after that so uh just know that if you are planning on keeping multiple of these in one tank you are going to need to go larger you are going to need to manage the decor of the aquarium to break them up a little bit and even if you do all that there's no guarantee that they're going to live together well so just be prepared for that now a little bit more about the green spotted puffer and their behavior they are very intelligent so you might not think about like fish as being intelligent but in the Fish World puffers are pretty intelligent and you'll see them being very inquisitive kind of looking around analyzing things they've got these big eyes obviously so their visual Acuity is pretty good and they will actually know who is the owner and who's not so they'll recognize you and they'll learn to like eat out of your hand and things like that so as far as that wet pet they are fun because you can interact with them so overall the Green Spot of puffer a very fun fish to keep great to look at fun to interact with when people come over they will be drawn to that fish every time people come into this room and they walk around they look at all the beautiful cichlids and the big Oscars and things like that they immediately when they get over there they bend down and look at the Green Spot of puffer and spend a lot of time looking at it because it's a very fun fish so if you happen to get one I'm sure you will also enjoy it and hopefully this video helped you in learning more about the fish if you'd like to get some more stocking ideas on aquariums watch this video video right here
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