It took a lot of research on my part before I finally did a puffer and my first was the hairy puffer. Very intelligent fish and outgoing as any cichlid. Just really lazy, lol. My reason for choosing the lurkers is that the places where the tanks are, in my office and in the garage, dont have a lot of foot traffic so an active fish was really not needed. They also do not really require dental care since they are pretty much piscivores. While not necessary I will on occasion feed a hard shelled item, in my case Ive used small shore crabs. The puffer love to hunt them down to eat.
As to the dwarf pea puffers, Ive read they dont 'need' snails but it would still be good to give them on occasion to keep their teeth in check. Ive never raised any dwarf puffers but on my wist list of fish.
... Well not really. It just does not respond to me yet. So no name just yet. It has the very prominent 'V' or arrowhead on it, which kind of reminds me of a Mohawk haircut. It also like to dig and bury in the sand. So at this point still watching it to determine the name.
