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What do you feed them? And do they seem ok not being in a shoal? Those are my two biggest concerns, in addition to finding ones that don't have parasites

It actually holds 7 gallons of water. It's heavily planted and been running for a few months. Puffer is doing well and completely left shrimp alone. ASSUMING that my DP leaves otos alone, how many could I put if any? I was thinking 2 or 3.

Fair enough, I will consider that thanks. I'm just trying to get as many opinions as I can on it.

Thanks. I have a decent amount of brown algae for sure. I would love to have 3 otos with my puffer and the only thing I worry about is if they'd be ok in a smaller group. I might give it a shot though.

I have a 10 gallon, and I know there is a lot of debate about whether or not 2-3 otos is ok. If they mainly stay on plants/glass then I think my tank would be great, if keeping 3 + 1 pea puffer in a 10 gal is ok.

My pea puffer loves to hunt snails but shows no interest in shrimp at all, completely leaves them alone. I would expect her to leave oto catfish alone too, given how common it is. I was wondering if my substrate is ok for them though, this is what I used..

Awesome to hear. Are you able to feed her anything other than bloodworms and snails? That's all mine will eat

It seems that, from many people with experience, dwarf puffers are actually best in larger groups (when the tanks are large enough). I have one pea puffer in a heavily planted 10 gallon, and she's been doing well for the past 3 weeks. But I wanted to know how many people have actually kept one...

I've had my dwarf puffer for over 2 weeks now and she's been doing well! My nitrate seems to hover around 5-15 ppm usually. But I will look into this, thank you.

I use easy green all in one once a week, which is advertised as safe for shrimp. And prime.

So weird though, the shrimp was doing well for many, many hours until I woke up this morning.

Is there anything I can do to help it molt? I did a 20% water change already.

Ok, if there is a next time I will be sure to do a full 2 hours. And.. it is possible that my dwarf puffer took a nip at it but I don't think that's the case.

1. See above post 2. I bought it from a LFS. Not sure what their parameters were.

I let the bag float for around 30 mins to temp acclimate, then I drip acclimated for an additional 30 mins