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Hi guys, update. Iam moving on to keeping dwarf puffers. They are really tiny here when they sell it, like 8mm or so maybe 1cm. I wonder how is a fish that size going to eat snails or bloodworms? Lol it seems like a ridiculous question, but Iam afraid of fish not eating
Dwarf puffers do not get overgrown teeth. You can feed anything meaty since snails are not required. If the snail is too big then maybe the DP wont eat it. This would be beneficial since pond snails reproduce to make tiny snails for your DP to constantly hunt for light snacks throughout the day. However a DP can take on a much larger snail by biting at the the meat only and killing the snail. Take out the leftovers if this happens.
2 dwarfs can be in a 10g with an attempt to add dwarf shrimps such as red cherry shrimps as tankmates.
Its a risk to lose all cherry shrimps, but you can try it if you want tankmates. The baby shrimps would be great for hunting just like the pest pond snails
Dwarf puffers suck the snail out of its' shell. It is not a good idea to keep more than one unless the tank is very well planted and has plenty of hiding spaces. While they are young they may not bother each other or other fish but when they mature they will attack each other and anything else they see as a threat. Another poster on here tried to keep other fish with theirs against advice and soon ended up with a tank full of injured fish. They can be really mean to other tank inhabitants. I did keep ramshorn snails and ghost shrimp with mine. The ghost shrimp survived and the baby snails fed him.