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| My wife was at the LFS and saw dwarf puffers and has fallen in love with them..I have never had them and wanted to askw hat are good tank mates? We have some cardinal tetras in our 10 gallon...need some help on this one or my name is going to be mud! lol
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keep them away from long- finned fish, they are serious fin nippers.
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Great site N4E! That should definately help!
Let's swim with the fishes! 
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| You can put some Danios in a tank with them. They are colorful small fish.
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You cannot keep danios with dwarf puffers; the danios will sooner or later be nipped, damaged, and quite possibly killed through stress and secondary infection.
Do not keep tankmates with dwarf puffers. It is difficult enough keeping dwarf puffers with one another! They are territorial and the males are aggressive. Shrimps can work, and if you have soft water and excellent water quality, as well as plenty of green algae, Otocinclus sometimes work well (but the lifespan of Otocinclus in most aquaria is dismal unless you research their needs carefully).
But that's about it. Puffers are not community fish. Keep puffers in one tank, and your community fish in another. You will find that's the advice given by every single expert aquarist ever published, and I don't disagree.
Cheers, Neale
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Now wait just a minute! I have 5 dwarf puffers in a 20 tall with 3 Glofish, several guppies, 3 cories, an oto, a dwarf honey gold gourami, AND a LONG FIN betta. They have no problem getting along with everyone else. Nemo, i say go for it. i would get 2 or 3 and put them in a 5 gallon tank for quarantine and to fatten them up before adding them to your tank. They love snails and bloodworms. Frozen or freeze dried one are accepted, too. They won't eat flake food but will compete with Glofish for bloodworms or brine shrimp.
My tanks: 20 gallon 5 guppies, 5 platies, 1 cave tetras, 6 black neons. 20 gallon tall: 4 dwarf puffers, 2 bettas, 3 glofish, 2 kisser gourami, 3 cories, 2 honey gold gourami, 1 oto, 1 clown loach. 20 gallon tall:1 cichalid, 5 bluegill.
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that is a bit of an overstocked tank, surface area is much more important.
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Now wait just a minute! I have 5 dwarf puffers in a 20 tall with 3 Glofish, several guppies, 3 cories, an oto, a dwarf honey gold gourami, AND a LONG FIN betta. They have no problem getting along with everyone else. Nemo, i say go for it. i would get 2 or 3 and put them in a 5 gallon tank for quarantine and to fatten them up before adding them to your tank. They love snails and bloodworms. Frozen or freeze dried one are accepted, too. They won't eat flake food but will compete with Glofish for bloodworms or brine shrimp. One example. It may work for you but others may not be so lucky.
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My tank is heavily planted so i think that compensates. And i just moved the neons, cories, and Glofish to my other tank(long story).
My tanks: 20 gallon 5 guppies, 5 platies, 1 cave tetras, 6 black neons. 20 gallon tall: 4 dwarf puffers, 2 bettas, 3 glofish, 2 kisser gourami, 3 cories, 2 honey gold gourami, 1 oto, 1 clown loach. 20 gallon tall:1 cichalid, 5 bluegill.
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