Puffers and Kenyis?

[Brockway]

Can figure 8 puffers be kept with kenyi cichlids? I wouldn't put mine in there now, he's still a baby (to me, lol) but later when I get a larger tank (55g), it would be cool to see him with alot more swimming room to putt around in. I keep clowns with my kenyis now and they don't seem to care, so would my puffer be fine with them?

 

[GrImLoCk]

i wouldn't do it.....1st off you gotta think about the puffers well being and than you gotta think about the kenyis well being....either way i don't think its a good mix

 

[Brockway]

I could just move him to the newly emptied 29g then... I figured I couldn't keep them together, but just figured I'd ask also.

 

[c_paan]

puffer are fin nippers so Im sure they would try to nip at the kenyis. An from what I heard these are aggressive fish, so the combination of the two may see one fish either beat up or stressed out.

 

[420Loach]

kenyis might be able to tolerate a puffer in a large enough tank, but with age and maturity comes more aggressiveness on both sides and the stress level for them would be unreal. puffers tend to search the tank constantly for food, and this might piss off a few established kenyi in there own territory. i know what you mean about wanting to see your puffer swim around in a bigger area though. the 29 should be a palace for him.

 

[GRaff71884]

I have 2 mature figure 8 puffers in a 29g with 2 africans, a rusty and a kenyi. They all seem to get along great, no aggressiveness or fin nipping what so ever. I had the 2 puffers in there first, then added the baby rusty and baby kenyi from a tank full of babies my brother came up with out of his 55g african tank. Kept one of each, and got rid of the rest. The baby africans are gettin good size now and still no problems at all in the tank.