Pea puffer
Carinotetraodon travancoricus
Also called dwarf puffer.
Wants live snails and a tank of its own. A nipper, whatever the shop says.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 3.5 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 40 L, at least 45 cm long
- Temperature
- 22 to 28 °C
- pH
- 6.5 to 7.5
- Hardness
- 5 to 15 dGH
- Kept in
- on its own
- Temperament
- semi-aggressive
- Eats
- snails and frozen
- Swims
- at every level
- How hard
- moderate
- Lives
- about 4 years
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether a pea puffer fits the tank you have.