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Ram_Puppy
Fri, 30th Mar 2007, 09:16 AM
obviously crabs, shrimpm, snails, clams and similar items are incompatible w/ a pufferfish...

what about starfish? are they a snack too?

tucker
Fri, 30th Mar 2007, 09:19 AM
i had a porcupine puffer and he never touched my linkia or chocolate chip.

erikharrison
Fri, 30th Mar 2007, 09:40 AM
my striped burrfish never even got near any stars. never nipped or even toyed with my hermits, but I would fear putting a clam in. I hand feed him a clam daily, and he eats somtimes as many as 2 cubes of brine/bloodworms. My puffer is too concerned with me feeding him to worry about anything in the tank. Sometimes he spits at me when I look over the top of the tank.

Ram_Puppy
Fri, 30th Mar 2007, 09:51 AM
yeah, i would never risk a clam, talk about an expensive snack.

so they generally leave starfish alone.

good to know.

any other compatible inverts?

hermits seem risky.

erikharrison
Fri, 30th Mar 2007, 10:00 AM
mine doesn't nad never has even looked at a hermit funny. I have seen it bite a rock or two, but never anywhere near a hermit. Oh yeah, I didn't lose any peppermint shrimp either. I wouldn't try a cleaner shrimp though since they are more active than a pepper during the day.

don-n-sa
Fri, 30th Mar 2007, 11:21 AM
In my aggressive reef I have: A porc puffer, two groupers, a trigger, a SFE, harliquin tusk. Of all of them , the porc is the MOST passive of them all. I have snails , hemits , starfish, crabs, cleaner shrimp corals with very few issues.

Donny

Ram_Puppy
Fri, 30th Mar 2007, 01:06 PM
thanks guys!

mathias
Fri, 30th Mar 2007, 01:21 PM
I had one put a cleaner in ther he didn't even hit the dirt before the puffer ate him lol...