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Question about Green Spotted Puffer fish?
I have two green spotted puffer fish one about 1 inch and the other a little bigger and one plecostomus. The place I got the puffer fish from had a plecostomus in the tank with the puffers. The first couple days were fine, but for some reason the bigger puffer keeps attacking the 4-inch Plecostomus. I fed the puffers snails today to help file their teeth and the larger puffer seems to be really aggressive ever since. I can tell the Plecostomus is stressed out because it's a kind of panting like a dog would and his whole body is going up and down, which it use to be really calm. What do I do to make the larger puffer be less hostile? I know their hostile fish, but the attacking only started today...should I feed them more snails or some blood worms even though they've been fed for the day already?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Turn off the light to your aquarium and put in more coverage maybe the pleco will be able to hide better and you know the saying "out of sight out of mind" leave the light off for at least two hours after adding the new decor
Source(s): 20 years as an aquariast - 1 decade ago
Puffers are not community fish. They don't like company. Your puffer isn't attacking because of food, but most likely because of territory. Even having 2 puffer is likely to become a problem eventually even if you have them in a huge tank. Puffers do best on their own.
Green Spotted Puffers are also brackish water fish if I remember correctly, and that environment I don't think is very good for a Pleco. I would do alittle research online if I was you.
- eigenfunxionLv 51 decade ago
the attacks are not food related... i never had this problem with my GSPs, but sometimes the best solution is to remove either the problem fish, or the fish getting the crap kicked out of it. The pet store would likely take it so that it doesn't die... they probably wouldn't pay you for it, but it couldn't hurt to ask.
All in all though, I am stumped. Maybe consider the size of your tank?
