By far the best care guide video for pea puffers with awesome footage!

That snail got picked off right on cue. Nice :)

Aside from being informative, this is definitely one of the cutest videos I've ever seen----- your nice demeanor is so soothing.

Look at that carpet!! Great info

I absolutely ADORE pufferfish, whether they're freshwater, brackish water or salt water. Intelligant, soulful & comical, they're always great to watch. Lovely video & I love the close-up of the bloodworms too! Keep 'em coming!

GREAT VIDEO! I really enjoy your videos, Mark. I have a pea puffer in with my male guppies in a 5.5 gallon tank. The reason all is well is 1) the tank is FULL of live plants for lots of coverage and places for ramshorn snails to lay eggs 2) there are a LOT of ramshorn snails. 'Puffy' single-finnedly manages the WHOLE colony of snails by himself. He eats the snail-eggs AND the baby snails. He leaves the adult snails alone. As the adult snails eventually die off from old age, I add more snails from my other tanks. Puffy works everyday checking the eggs. He does NOT bother the guppies. Occasionally the boy guppies try to get amorous with him and he just swims away, lol. LIKE YOU SAY, each puffer has its own personality and I wouldn't tolerate it being aggressive towards my fish. It is one of the great joys of my life to watch this 3/4 inch fish manage this entire snail colony. It is very important to add more snails when the old ones die naturally of old age, after laying lots of eggs in their life-time. 2 years now, this has been going on. LOTS of plants encourage the snails laying their eggs, and give Puffy lots to keep 'interested' in. He carefully SCANS every square inch of the tank for his dinners. AMAZING little fish. I am so grateful to know and be able to observe him.💦🙏🐟😊

Nice to hear an aqua hobbyist who knows the difference between schooling fish and shoaling fish 😊

I really REALLY like their little feeding dish!! I will definitely be adding it to my future tank!

By far the best pea puffer care video 👍

Thank you for tips and info! We just got a few and a random person told us that they CAN NOT be breed in captivity. I was like, Oh wow, i didn't know that. Then told my GF that all they did was read the first thing that popped up on google. lol Time to start a pea puffer-coops or PODS to save the wild ones lol

hey mark, hope you are healing your back. i have started sleeping on a ''pool noodle'' one of those foam tubes kids play with in the pool. got mine at Walmart for $4. it's tough but i got my life back. perfect spinal alignment at night and let gravity work wonders. keeps me in the 10 hut position all night. start with knees up grab your head board and pull till you pop/adjustment to your back. all the pain goes away suddenly and you will fall right asleep. i used to get a painful pop, but now its almost unnoticeable. i am back to bench and military presses and curls. this i great. btw i am 69 and ripped.

This was a wonderfully informative video. I am considering getting a pea puffer and I am spending my time in quarantine doing research about them. Thank you for sharing your experience with these great little fish.

Thank You Mark!!! While I'm not into Puffer's, I do find ALL of your breeding video's to be the most informational out there. If you only knew how many different kind's of fish I can make from just watching your video's. Simply put, ... Top Shelf material!

Thanks for the information. I have 4 in a 29 gallon. When I turned the tank into a pygmy puffer tank, I had to remove all the guppies. One guppy proved illusive, so I left her in the tank. So far, she and the puffers and the bristle nosed pleco seem to be doing ok together. I do plan to one day outsmart the guppy and move her into the guppy tank. I hope the pleco will do okay with them. I'd like to leave him in there.

I saw these little guys at a pet store for the first time last week. Now that I see yours I know that the ones in the store were super skinny. It makes me sad.

I just discoverd your marvelous, instructive and entertaining videos. This is my new favorite fishkeeping channel.

Great vid, mate! Got yourself a new subscriber :D i also use tweezers to feed my little guys, and vacuum up any left over after each meal to help keep nitrates from spiking. I ve only had mine for about 6 months now, and they are the single most interesting little fish ive ever had the pleasure to care for. Love them!!

What an outstanding video! I love your sensitivity to the fish and the information about their intelligence and stimulating environment.

Nice healthy fish, too many vids have stressed-out puffers in them. I'm setting up a 15-gallon Pea Puffer tank this week. My first try and you gave us valuable information in this presentation 🐡🐡🐡. I use a terra-cotta tray as a feeding station in my tanks.

Fantastic insight Mark i found it really useful thanks. Lots of love to you and yours.

Thank you so much for this video, I never even thought about the remains of snails rotting away, good clean up tip. Also never seen them eat from a bowl it's adorable. I've been researching these the past few weeks and am slowly getting a tank together, my mum kept them before and is helping me out setting up - there's still things she didn't know either😅

Lovely looking little fish , I have kept marine puffers before and they were great fun ..🙏👍✌

Feeding dish- brilliant!!!

Thanks for another fantastic video, I've learned more about these fish than I ever new before. I often see them single, but I can see from your video that having a half dozen or so makes for a very lively and interesting tank.

Absolutely stunning video Mark, very good advice as always I keep mine in a tank on their own watching them chase daphnia is a great pastime 🤓 thanks for sharing. 👍🏼🐡

Another great video, full of information also nice to see them feeding and a nice tune too👍👍

What a fantastic clip, first kept these about forty years ago, will def do as a species set up this time round. Cheers Mark

I had to separate mine, wouldn't stop breeding.mine are with shrimp also.Thx for the vid.

Great video! I also have them, great wet pets.

Hi Mark great video on the care if this cute and funny species. I've definitely learnt some new information, thankyou for sharing 😊

Lots of great information. Thanks, Mark. 👍💕👍

Great video! Beautiful tank!! Plants look incredible! I'm a fish guy and thinking about getting these for my girlfriend, who LOVES the pea puffers. I want to set her up for success. I'm not sure if 2 in a 10g would result in aggression.. probably depends on their individual temperament.. and then i'm concerned we may get a male and female, where the male will stress her out once they mature. Maybe 3 in a 10g? So then I was thinking 1 puffer in a 5g.. but will it then get lonely and without much stimulation while she's at work? I know you can't really put other fish with them.. maybe a large mystery snail? With the feeding.. how would you even go about feeding 1 or 2 of them with live foods? The live food will likely expire by the time even half of the stuff is used up. So then I was thinking maybe a 1g tank of just snails to pull from? .. but then I feel bad for the snails. Would the puffers be happy and healthy with frozen food, freeze-dried bloodworms.. and even.. flakes? anyone's input is much appreciated.

can you do videos about tips for plants?? 😁

Thanks as always, these fishes are so so cute, i love watching them eat!

I'm getting 4 of these guys tomorrow. I'm very excited ! And good idea with the feeding dish, I'll have to get one myself.

I used to have 3 Pea Puffers when I was stationed in HI. Definitely unique fish.

Great video as always Mark and very timely as these are on my shorlist to keep soon as a species tank 👍🏻

From experience they really have different personalities. Some don't bother fish or even baby shrimp and another would annihilate a shrimp colony. What I notice is that a tank with lots of plants is really best for their sanity. No matter their personality they like hiding and exploring. They actually don't mind a "dirty" tank (I do have lots of plants), they are durable. However, snail shells should be picked up.

Lovely song at the end. Looking forward to you learning about breeding these little fellows!

I love mine , however the feeding can be a pain . I have a pest snail tank and i try daphnia colonies in there too

I really love these guys. I can’t wait to see if you can successfully breed them.

Amazing video..im getting my first puffers this weekend and I'm so excited.su bed,great channel keep them coming!!!

Great video Mark :) Does anyone know what proportion of pygmy puffers currently sold in UK are wild caught? I'd love to keep them but would hate to contribute to their decline. Any suggestions for shops which stock captive bred ones?

Fantastic video and very informative

Nice info on theses cute little ones, thanks for sharing. What kind of water parameters do they generally like? Temp? It’s nice to know how to feed them properly, I’m always worried I won’t have enough snails. Thank again.

I have a palladarium for tree frogs. And an infestation of snails. I added two of these, to help. Frogs do eat the snails too. I just hope my measly 7 gal with lots of cover, is enough space.

Fantastic little video mark .

They can also take live meal worms (not the super worms), frozen mysis shrimp, and freeze dried krill, slightly crumbled up.

Thank you for all the great information

Great video, and I love your demeanor. Thanks for the information. Cheers.

GREAT INFO 👍

Really interesting, thankyou! I always steered clear of these as my lfs told me that they would need worming once a month and that you couldn't put your bare hands in the tank because they were toxic, but clearly not the case? I'll have to give them a go one day.

Fabulous ❤️ I want one of those feeding dishes

I just picked one of these up, very interesting fish, his little eyes are so inquisitive ! I have mine alone in a five gallon planted tank. Do you think these could go with tiger barbs?

I got 4 young peas, but they do live with others, they're doing fine, but I have a 125 litre tank, about 60 gallons I think. I hope it'll work tho. Auch. I was wrong, 125 litres is 33 US gallons

Thank you very much for your nice video, we see that you like them your little guys and I like that ;-) all your advice will help me for my specific little guys ! :-)

Great tips - thanks 👍

Really informative: thanks Mark! :)

Look at all those oxygen bubbles from plants awesome! Is there a filter in this tank also?

Very helpful thank you

Thanks for the informative video. What hardness is the water you are keeping them in?

I use a small tea cup with warm tank water to melt the cubes in, then drain it into a net then rinse again with more water from the tank, then add them to my tanks to feed my fish. I don't use tap water because of the chlorine and chloramine. Frozen foods arer known to be high in ammonia. You want to remove all of that as well as keep the chlorine from tap water out of your frozen foods.

Pea puffers are truly the cutest fish everrr

New sub, awesome video! I want to start breeding mine, but don’t know how. Please make a video on this! 😁

is your carpeting plant pearlweed or monte carlo? Also, how much do they eat in one sitting??

Hi Mark I to have mine with shrimp to. I feed mine with a syringe its cool thay all take it in turns feeding from it and this helps keeping the tank clean. I sometimes feel im not feeding them enough. How often do you feed yours as they all look in good health

I have got 4 puffers in with my endler guppies they seem to be doing ok

I might try get 2 from my local fish shop for £6 and keep them with my guppy’s wish me luck ! 😁👍

i really like theses fishes, they're so interesting to watch , with much personality ^^ my trio are incredible :D ?nice video btw !

Another great video, thx!

What a great video. I’ve got 4 in a 40 litre superfish home tank. Shop said it was easily big enough. Should I be worried and rehoused some or wait and see? I keep marine setup and tropical tank. I really don’t have any room for anything bigger than what I have. I reply would be really appreciated. BTW water quality is excellent.

Where can I get one of the tree bark bowl things? Brilliant idea and a fab little video 👍🏽

Thanks mark

Thanks for the good video my friend! Like + sub for your Sir!

Hi. Thank you for the great video. i have two questions, how old will they get usually? And do they have to be feeded every day or is it ok to skip one or two days a week? Thanks!

Thank you for the information very insightful questions. How many can I keep in a 29 gallon?

Mark, hopefully you see this. How may males and females would you have in a 100ltr tank? Great video, best one for advice I’ve watched ☺️

I keep pea puffers in my community tank. They never bother other fish, only other pea puffers.

my 3 pea puffers just died without any warning signs= kept in a 25ltr quarantine planted tank with lava rock / sand

I am trying to breed pea puffers (15) with australian desert gobies (4) that are breeding and growing up in a low boy (2'x4') but I am not having any luck with the puffers yet. Oh and they have 1 blue dream female that owns the tank lol

Great video. Have you tried using Hikari Vibra Bites? I'd like to pick up some pea puffers soon, but would like to be able to transition them to a flake/pellet eventually as their staple food.

The downside of feeding snails is the fact that their shells will rot. I just feed him black worms and tubifex, He wont eat anything else. Well, snails. But i rarely give that.

Great video!

I was just think what they would do with larger shrimps and medium crayfish & crabs, when I notice the cherry shrimps in your tanks. How do they do with medium-large invertebrates? Will they only take tiny-small invertebrates or will they go full psycho and take a big Amano shrimp?

I know i'm late on this video , but I am impressed, how much gallons does that hold ?

Can I request a video on Japanese fighting fish. Betta splender. Colours , keeping and breeding .

Fantastic video, thank you! I have kind of a different question: How do you keep live bloodworms? I really want to, but I read about, I think, midge flies, and having to time it right etc. Seemed a bit much. Do you mind sharing your process?

Nice video. I have a 10 gallon I’d like to set up. Can I have 3 pea puffers and a couple cherry shrimp?

Very helpful mark thank you.will you spawn them in that tank or move them to a designated breeding tank ?

What’s the smallest tank that a single pea puffer could be in? The LFS has some that are like 1/3”

Yeah I love these! but people should do their homework. So many people think they have a planted tank for them but a handful of anubias nana isn't going to cut it *smh*. They need space and safe space. they also need to identify male from female and start distributing them among other tanks to have a minimum of 2 female to 1 male or no males. Also, I let the bladder snails breed to their hearts content because they love them.

This is excellent. Question on feeding. I have 8 youngish specimens. They are good eaters of live worms, snails and anything frozen. You mentioned feeding twice a day. Do you feed that tank twice a day with that many worms? I’ve been feeding every other day so now I’m concerned that I’m not feeding enough. My fish look good. Tank is healthy. Any additional information is appreciated.

What kind of carpet is that

I have had these before where can I purchase them now? I would like to start a group of my own.

What about big snails? Like a narite or mystery snail?

We have two pea puffers in a 10 gal and I spotted one teasing the other with a bloodworm in its mouth like dogs do to each other with toys trying to get a play chase going. I've never seen this behaviour in fish. 😁

Can you pls take a really close up photo of the male and female!!! I don't understand the difference,it would help me a lot 😁😁😁!!!

Fantastic

what kind of plant is on the bottom on the bottom and can you grow it out of gravel or does it need the dirt substrate?

I've only owned my puffer for a week so far