Pea Puffers (C. travancoricus) and Zebra Plecos (H. zebra)

[vividheckel]

Hi,

I have three pea/dwarf puffers in a ten gallon that I've had for about five months now (keeping fish for about five years now). I want to upgrade their tank to a twenty long soon, and was wondering whether they would be compatible with any bottom-dwellers -- I was specifically looking at zebra plecos (yes, I know); honeycomb catfish; or something similar (a colorful-ish complement to the puffers). With their price, I really want to make sure that the two species are compatible. Not hoping to breed anything, just a pretty tank that I can admire. 😁

[Rewcolee1]

In my opinion, I don’t think you’d have any issues with the bottom dwellers you mentioned. Based on some experience the Pea Puffers I’ve kept will nip at fins, but that’s about it.

[vividheckel]

On 5/11/2023 at 8:11 PM, Rewcolee1 said:

In my opinion, I don’t think you’d have any issues with the bottom dwellers you mentioned. Based on some experience the Pea Puffers I’ve kept will nip at fins, but that’s about it.

Thanks for your advice. I thought so too, but just wanted to make sure that opinions on similar fish applied to these!

[MAC]

I would avoid pea puffers with any fish that is somewhat sedentary. 

The only time I've had a pea puffer successfully coexist with another species long term (9 months or so) was mosquito fish (gambusia) 

[Colu]

From what I have read about zebra plecos they like high flow very well oxygenated water and a higher temperature  than pea puffers they prefer  low to medium flow slightly lower temperature I don't think  they would work @vividheckel