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There's seems to be a few rules of thumb out there with regards to dwarf puffers - 1 puffer per 10 litres is one, another is 5g for the 1 puffer and 3g per puffer after that. The general consensus in the DP community is that they're a shoaling species and do better in larger groups of 6+. I...

I think they're probably too young to accurately tell the gender tbh.

They're probably just picking off microorganisms, mine do to my floating plants.

The sunken belly could suggest an internal parasite perhaps. What are you feeding the rams? I would lay off adding more fish until you've worked out what's going on with the rams tbh.

Regarding the poisonous aspect of pufferfish. In the wild pufferfish (and other species that produce tetrodotoxin) bioaccumulate the toxin from their diets. Pufferfish that are in captivity are highly unlikely to have access to the bacteria that create the toxin. Some research was done a while...

I would go for 6 dwarf puffers in a 29g, heavily planted, and when I say heavily planted, I mean add some plants, then add more plants and then some more. They also like a sand substrate. I keep my DP's species only, but other people have had other fish in with them to varying degrees of success.

When I'm feeding live food, I drop one half of the portion in one corner and the other portion in another corner. The greediest fish usually head for the first drop of food and then the other fish are given the opportunity to discover the second drop of food.

They look like snail eggs to me.

What happens if you try to turn the pleco over?

It looks like most of those are plants with roots under the substrate, so adding some root tabs to the substrate will definitely help them long term.

30 pellets a day sounds like quite a lot to me. My Betta gets 5 pellets once a day.

1) Gravel vac 2) Long tongs 3) a 2-litre jug, it has been so useful for so many tank related activities

My only advice to add to the rest of the good advice so far, is plants, more plants and then just a few more plants.

Dwarf puffers prefer a low flow anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

I think they're too young to sex atm, although the yellower colouring would suggest it's a boy to me.

One of the rules of thumb for dwarf puffers is 5g for the 1st puffer and then 3g for each puffer after, so if you go by that rule then 2 is fine in a 10g tank. I've also seen 1 dp per 10 litres suggested as well and that you're better off with groups of 6 + to keep aggression down.

It is quite possible he was flaring at his own reflection, mine does that at every now and again.

I have dwarf puffers in my flex 57, started with 3, they spawned and now I have 5

Definitely needs more plants. Here's a picture of my puffer tank back in February before the Aponogeton crispus died back - Just for info: this is a 15g - I started with 3 puffers, but 2 of them got jiggy and now I have 5 puffers

I have puffer experience and I also have bronze cory experience, however, they're kept in separate tanks because the corys (preferably in groups of 6 or more) need to be kept in a tank that's bigger than my puffer tank . My puffer tank is 15g and the tank that the corys are in is a 47g.