no puffer with any inverts

[nycbob]

puffers will eat all inverts including feather dusters.

 

[andyaz]

Learned this the hard way a year ago. Got a porcupine puffer to join "Nemo" and "Dory", and within 2 days he had eaten my entire cleaning crew. Was adopted off to another loving family after than...

 

[midas]

I always do some research on an animal before I buy it. Saved a lot of money and saved a lot of fishy lives that way.

 

[salt210]

does this include anemones? sorry if dumb question

 

[prime311]

Anemone's are not inverts. I've not seen any personal accounts of Puffers eating Anemone's, but thats not to say it wouldnt happen.

 

[b00st3d]

My puffer only eats the small snails, there are 4 shrimp in the tank with him and he hasn't gone after any of them, YET.

 

[the egregious]

Originally Posted by prime311
http:///forum/post/2637112
Anemone's are not inverts. I've not seen any personal accounts of Puffers eating Anemone's, but thats not to say it wouldnt happen.
How do you figure that anemones are not considered invertebrates?

 

[bioneck47]

you can keep them with a strawberry hermit crab

 

[aqua_scaping]

Originally Posted by bioneck47
http:///forum/post/2639444
you can keep them with a strawberry hermit crab
thats because those things are MASSIVE but eventually the puffer will get meaner and bigger and find a way to chow down on it

 

[stdreb27]

My puffer ate my aspitia, so no I wouldn't try them

 

[salt210]

I want to get an anemone after I upgrade to halides but want to know if I should be worried with my stars and stripes puffer. not trying to highjack your thread man

 

[prime311]

Originally Posted by The Egregious
http:///forum/post/2639435
How do you figure that anemones are not considered invertebrates?

Lol sorry.

I meant I wouldn't lump them in with Crustaceans like Crabs and Shrimp or with Snails.

 

[nemo_66]

i kept a valentini (sp) with some hermits and snails. the snails were massive though, but the hermits were small. but i guess the huma huma got to them first. lol.

 

[stanlalee]

Originally Posted by Nemo_66
http:///forum/post/2641365
i kept a valentini (sp) with some hermits and snails. the snails were massive though, but the hermits were small. but i guess the huma huma got to them first. lol.
Canthigaster (toby) puffers can often be kept with inverts. I had a valentini with fireshrimp, hermits and snails. When I rubberbanded algae sheets the hermits and puffer would eat from it at the same time. he was small though. Probably couldn't successfully eat them if he wanted to. ate vermetid (tube) snails all day (which was good because I had too many).

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by prime311
http:///forum/post/2637112
Anemone's are not inverts. I've not seen any personal accounts of Puffers eating Anemone's, but thats not to say it wouldnt happen.
Anemones are indeed inverts.

 

[psu]

My valentini doesn't bother anything in the tank except some snails whenever they fall off something and land upside down.

 

[fats71]

My puffer is on 6 months and never touches anything otherr than the foood I feed it. Try feeding it alittle more so as it does not look at the inverts as dinner.

 

[the egregious]

Originally Posted by prime311
http:///forum/post/2641154
Lol sorry.

I meant I wouldn't lump them in with Crustaceans like Crabs and Shrimp or with Snails.
No need for apologizing haha I just thought maybe I was missing something

 

[michelleolds]

what about a serpent star will a puffer eat those?

 

[prime311]

Originally Posted by michelleolds
http:///forum/post/2643881
what about a serpent star will a puffer eat those?

Probably. Its a risk, if you don't mind taking a chance you can try it.