My dwarf puffer [arrived by accident, in a shipment of pygmy corys:shock:] decimated the Malaysian Livebearing Snail population in the 10g. If you feed mysis, what I do is I put some in a pipet with some hanging out of it, and move. For the snail feeding, I will give them 1-2 snails each, depending on the size of the snail. Posted by 1 year ago. Snails eat anything, from fish waste to detritus to decaying plant matter to dead fish... so they must have a good source of organics. By One Fish Two Fish, 4 years ago on General Freshwater Questions. Could I have about three pea puffers and 5 cardinal tetras with some snails in a ten gallon tank? Everyone should wear puffers! I've got at least 20 little ramshorns breeding prolifically in my tank. Dwarf Puffer Fish. I have a thing for pea puffers :) I am a metalsmith and had a bit of time in between working on my jewelry orders so started to create something for myself. Archived (GA) Free Feeder Snails for Pea Puffers, St. Louis MO (local only) Giving Away. Can I keep pea puffers with plecos? Pea puffer feeding question. Any snails, mine chomp the tiny ones up with the shell, with the bigger snails, they eat the fleshy bits they can reach which makes the snail come out of the shell, they then eat that. We collected up to 21 ads from hundreds of classified sites for you! The purpose of the snails is for the puffers to eat the small ones while the adults continue to reproduce. Dwarf pufferfish is very small and quite often it’s sold in its max size – about 2.5 cm long. save hide report. I am getting a pea puffer when this school year gets out. I have some questions on pea puffers because I saw them online and was really interested. Are pea puffers good ten community tank members? The fish comes from India and unlike the other species, it inhabits only in freshwater. But I agree that these will have to be raised in another tank as the puffer would decimate them pretty quick I would expect. (GA) Free Feeder Snails for Pea Puffers, St. Louis MO (local only) Giving Away. For bettas, it's best to keep them in a tank where there are no fin nippers. Due to deforestation and human encroachment, wild Pea Puffers as a species are being threatened. I'm planning a 29 gallon, planted dwarf puffer aquarium. I wouldn't feed more, because pea puffers are REALLY small. I don't think ramshorn or bladder matters. The Beginner's Guide to Keeping Freshwater Puffers. Close. The Dwarf Puffer in many ways can be called the ideal puffer for most aquarists. Everything included I think it's a 50 gallon tank 6 pea puffers Live plants, wood drift and rocks, substrate and dirt at he bottom of the tank Frozen blood warms, algae pellets and shrimp pellets (pellets for bottom feeders) brine shrimp eggs, and tap water conditioner 2 cleaners, large net, … I have one pea puffer set up in a heated, filtered, and cycled 7 gallon tank for about 4 days now. ... You cannot get around this, and to ignore the quarantine period for live feeder items can result in a very sick puffer. Malabar Dwarf Puffer - Carinotetraodon travancoricus. It wasn't until several weeks after the puffer was moved out of this tank that I began to see the snails again, just a few which had obviously managed to remain hidden under the chunks of wood. Howdy, I've got two pea puffers that need a little spice in their lives. The Dwarf Puffer lives in freshwater, originating from inland India. This even includes prey items such as snails. The dwarf puffer, also known as the pea puffer (Carinotetraodon travancoricus), is the smallest of the pufferfish available in the aquarium trade and is native to the rivers of southwest India. Open the clam, finely chop up the meat and freeze it as a snack for them and save a little hunk of meat on the shell and toss it in.