Can a mantis and puffer coexhist?

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    Is it possible? I'm working on transfering my puffer's tank to sw and i would like something to go in with him. It's a 20 tall. Let me tell you about my puffer, he is an extremely aggressive fish and will literally kill anything that goes in his tank. So i know i can't have any fish in there with him for one, becasuse the size of the tank, and two he would kill them. So would a mantis work? Or would he kill the mantis, or the mantis kill him? Also he's a green spotted puffer, and yes they can go full marine.
     
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  2. stepho

    stepho Panda Puffer

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    Nope. Puffer will eat small mantis shrimp, and larger shrimps will fight the puffer and one will die.
     
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  3. grinder37

    grinder37 Whip-Lash Squid

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    I can't answer your question about the mantis,but I used a green puffer and a black molly to cycle one of my fish only sw tanks,but yes the puffer attacked the molly so i took him out and put back in fw tank.The molly is still in the sw tank today and happy as can be.
     
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  4. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    that's what i figured, i just wanted to see if it was possible
     
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