Golden puffer

[Joew6]

Has anyone had or heard of anyone who has had success with keeping a golden puffer in a reef tank, I have recently ordered one for my 210 reef

 

[r2odie]

did you get the puffer? how's it doing?

 

[Blown 346]

It is not reef safe. It should be in a fish only aquarium or FOWLR.

I would research before you buy.

 

[sandwi54]

Don't mean to sound harsh but you really should have done a simple search prior to buying animals. Puffers and triggers are the least reef safe fish. Their teeth are born to crush invertebrates, and golden puffer (arothron meleagris) are ppobligate coralivores in nature. Over half of their diet in nature are corals.

He will most likely demolish your corals. I couldn't even keep mine with Kenya trees.

 

[gobolts23]

a puffer in a reef tank will be devastating. i have dove with many different species of puffers and have seen them chew coral/rock right off the reef. there jaws are more powerful than people realize.

 

[sandwi54]

there jaws are more powerful than people realize.

+1. I have at numerous times been bitten by my 9" golden puffer, and every bite took a chunk of flesh off my finger.