puffer in community tank

[teog]

Im thinking about adding a puffer (dog) into a community tank..I currently have a lion(Ive heard about puffers running into lions and dying) But Ill soon have a large naso streamer, queen angel and harliquin task...the tank is 160 gallons...
Anyone have any problems with there puffers messing with other large fish?

 

[von_rahvin]

what kind of lion is it?? puffer are nromally really stupid, cute but stupid. Don't get me wrong i love puffers esp porcs, but man are they dumb most of the time. So the only thing that you have in the tank at this point is a lion? becareful about adding all those large fish quickly. Most o hose fish get quite large, so your 160 in the end my not be big enough. What kind of filtration do you have? Most of those fish (lion/puffer and even the big queens) are agressive and produce ALOT of waste so you have to have the filters be it LR and LS or mechanical to handel it.

 

[teog]

Von- My 160 has 50lbs of LR plus a wet/dry for a
300g tank with protien skimmer. I also have a 25watt UV sterilizer.I also have a 2 rainbow filter on top of this.(1 mechnical,1chemical) So I think I have filtration covered....
Anthem- Yes I have heard they would pick the fins on lion fish..I have an xlarge sized volitan..I figure if I get a smaller puffer the lion should be ok. What do you think?

 

[teog]

Thanks for the advise!

 

[funco2]

I have an 8" lionfish and a 5" puffer. They have lived together for a long time -- No Problem

 

[slb243]

I had a 7" lion and a 4" stars and stripes puffer and they lived together fine. No agression from either one. Neither seemed to care about the other but they both loved goldfish.