Puffer question

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I currently have a 38g with 2 ocelleris clowns and a cleaner shrimp. Working on my next addition. I would love to get some kind of puffer. Any suggestions? Or is the tank just too small to support one. Going to add an anemone and some coral too
 
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Didn't finish my last post. Question is, are there any puffers that can thrive in a smaller tank like mine? Plan on adding one new thing per month.
 
I wouldn't count on any puffer leaving your inverts alone, as that is their natural diet.

I do have a green spotted puffer in my reef right now because we didn't want to get rid of him when we tore down our FOWLR. So far, he has not bothered my shrimp, though I currently suspect him of having eaten my hermit crab (I prefer an innocent-until-proven-guilty approach). One of those would stay small enough. They're listed as a brackish fish but they start out freshwater and must slowly be acclimated to brackish or they will die young (4 years or so, vs ~16). Once acclimated to brackish they can be acclimated to full marine conditions. I do have to note that they are considered aggressive, but I have never had any problems with mine. He's a live-and-let-live sort.
 
Saddle Valentini Puffer
Leopard Toby Puffer
 
Their natural food is clams. You can't keep clams in your tank with one. They sometimes eat your coral.
 

WHAT KIND OF SUBSTRATE ARE YOU RUNNING ON YOUR TANK?

  • Bare bottom

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  • A shallow bed of fine sand

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  • Mixed substrate or varying sand depth

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