New Pea Puffers!

[Hduerson]

Okay guys, so I do expect some heat from this, but I also hope I can get some actual help too.
I'm getting 4 pea puffers delivered next week. I have a 29 gal. Currently it has an undergravel filtration as well as an HOB rated 30-60. Plants are coming in as well as hiding decor for plant grow-out time. I've got tons of bladder snails. Frozen mysis shrimp, and frozen blood worms.
What I need to know is amount of feeding. 1 frozen cube total or what? Will they eat mysis, or do I need more blood worms? Also any tips on UG filtration with plants. I've got about an inch of substrate with almost half being specific plant and the other half just gravel that came with tank. Plants I have in there seem fine, but I have no experience with UG.
Also, literally any pointers for these fish or anything close would be nice.
Even recommended tankmates in this size tank.
Thanks!
Also, not a complete noob, but new to puffers. Any specific meds I should keep on hand?

 

[AcornTheBetta]

Okay guys, so I do expect some heat from this, but I also hope I can get some actual help too.
I'm getting 4 pea puffers delivered next week. I have a 29 gal. Currently it has an undergravel filtration as well as an HOB rated 30-60. Plants are coming in as well as hiding decor for plant grow-out time. I've got tons of bladder snails. Frozen mysis shrimp, and frozen blood worms.
What I need to know is amount of feeding. 1 frozen cube total or what? Will they eat mysis, or do I need more blood worms? Also any tips on UG filtration with plants. I've got about an inch of substrate with almost half being specific plant and the other half just gravel that came with tank. Plants I have in there seem fine, but I have no experience with UG.
Also, literally any pointers for these fish or anything close would be nice.
Even recommended tankmates in this size tank.
Thanks!
Also, not a complete noob, but new to puffers. Any specific meds I should keep on hand?

I don't know a lot about pea puffers, so I can't answer, but I LOVE them and hope you post pics and get your questions answered.

 

[wishuponafish]

Feed them till their belly is slightly rounded, each one will only need a tiny chip off a cube per day so each cube should last a few days even with 4.

Tankmates can be hit or miss, each puffer is different. I kept mine with shrimps and had no problems, while some people say theirs will rip adult shrimps apart. Some have had success keeping them in community tanks with other nano fish, while others didn't.

A lot of them are supposedly wild caught so they can come with internal parasites, so I recommend treating them with general cure or some other dewormer when they come in.

 

[DoraCory]

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.