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Figure 8 puffer

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#1 ·
I know these fish are very aggressive and eat snails etc. My question is would a puffer kill shrimp indiscriminately or just to eat when it was hungry? I was considering keeping these with shrimp as a self contained eco system where I wouldnt have to feed the tank.

Thanks.
 
#3 ·
I believe it'll eat it no matter if its hungry or not. Shrimps would be a better snack for it than their regular food. I've seen puffers wipe out tanks of snails - it didn't matter if they had 10, they just kept eating! Same would probably happen with shrimp I feel.

A different self sustained tank would be just shrimp and algae with other algae eating fish like otos. Not as cool though
 
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