Hi.
I have a brackish aquarium and i am now currently looking for some other puffers other than the commonly available green spotted puffer. Any replies will be appreciated. Thanks.

Ouch... don't know much about puffers, other than they are nasty little fish. Can't keep anything else with 'em 'cos they just rip everyone up! I think most puffers have to be in a species tank all to themselves if you don't want any badly injured fish.

Normally many people have been experience this because people can't really find a suitable envirment for them. Same goes to me when i first kept them. Nasty i can said but after that, i have no problem in keeping them with other brackish fishes. They are doing very well now.

What brackish fish do you keep it with? Scats? Monos? Archers? what?? Really interesting.... because all the literature that I've been reading about puffers is that they are really destructive fish and not to be trusted.

I keep my puffers with
1 batfish
2 banded archers
3 spotted archers
2 sabae monos
3 monos
2 silver scats
4 green scats
4 moray eels
2 knight gobies
2 mangrove gobies
1 grunter
1 black spotted snapper
3 rabbitfishes

WoW... I'm impressed. Did you managed to get the whole lot of your fishes in Malaysia? GOSH... u mush have a HUGE aquarium to keep all of them happy. 6fter?

What sort of Grunter do you have? Grunters are an Australian Native and I've been learning about them as I'm currently helping out at a LFS here in Aust. Mean little things those grunters. We had a 6inch Barcoo Grunter take out an Oscar of the same size! Anyways, I like the Banded Grunter and the Coal Grunter... nice colours (when young.).

Fresh water Morrays..... wow, now where the heck did you find 'em?

As for Puffers, I've no idea where you're going to find 'em in M'sia, but I've seen the "Milk spotted puffer" (Chelonodon patoca) which usually gets to about 10cm in an aquarium (35cm recorded in the wild) occasionally in specilised FS here in Australia. It's again also an Australian fish, but also available in the tropics all the way up to India. Good luck in your hunt for exotic stuff..... I can see why you're finding problems getting these exotics with the Flowerhorn craze in M'sia.

Generally, i got all my fishes from my country and my aquarium is about 200 gal. Anyway i am not sure about the scientific name of the grunter because i have lost my fish identification book but i can assure you its a grunter. I did not brought him from any aquarium store. In fact i caught him from a mangrove swamp.
Moray eels...huh...it took me along time to look for them all over the aquarium shop. Some marine aquatic stores do have them in their marine tanks although the morays are estuarine. The moray i meant is gymnothorax tile. For the gymnothorax polyuranodon, i was sooooo lucky to find it from a freshwater fish dealer. :P .
Chelonodon patoca is quite commonly available but still it is considered quite rare because it is normally found mixed up with green spotted puffers. In a dealer's tank full of green spotted puffers, there will only be 5-8 milk spotted puffers. The flower horns craze are really making my findings difficult.

I understand....

BTW, when you say u got it from 'your' country, which country is that? Aren't you in Ipoh, Malaysia. I'm actually from PJ, Selangor.

The country i mean is malaysia...hehe...i thought you are a foreigner . By the way, i am from ipoh but i am now studying in subang jaya, selangor.

Hmmm... My parent's place close by Subang Jaya. It's in DJ. I'm currently in Sydney Australia. I go back about once or twice a year.... We're more koi, and goldfish crazy in that house.

I'm interested in all fish, but your setup seems to be a little too exotic for me to be able to locate what you want..... I wonder if you've been to the fish market along Jalan Pasar in KL? They've got some exotic stuff there occasionally.... hopefully they're not all converted to just selling flowerhorns now.

Here in Australia I've got my way around the 'aquarium fish' trade and I help out at a fish shop here.... Looking to get into the importation of fish as a side income here in Aust as well. Won't be importing 'flowerhorns' as they are banned in Australia. Looking to breed Tropheus in Malaysia and import them to Aust. Are you familiar with your Tanganyikan cichlids? Wonder if you've seen any Tropheus species in Malaysia??