Tank size for a porcupine puffer?

[Dark_Knightt]

I would love one! I always see them at my LFS, they have so much personality and are sometimes total jokesters! One time I thought it got stuck in the overflow, then i pointed it out to my friend who works there and he said "oh no he just does that" lol i remembered people always told me puffers were total derps.

 

[uhgster1]

Surprisingly, Diodon hystrix grows to almost three feet long, Diodon holocanthus reaches about 18". If you get a small one, it is unlikely they will reach that size in an aquarium, but figure on perhaps 80% of that max, so long term, neither species is going to be happy in a 75. There is a smaller species from Australia, but I forget its name....

Jay

I remember spear fishing on the Pacific side of Panama and seeing three foot long puffers right along the edge of the water breaks. Gentle giants

 

[Mafbrand]

Question--- wife an i want a porcupine puffer. Can't have him in my reef tank. So the plan is to free up one of our living rooms fresh water tanks. I have two 75s side by side behind the coach. Would a 75g tank be OK for just one with some rock and sand. Nothing else, no other tank mates. So one tank will have a puffer and the other will have a dinnerplate albino oscar. Google says 100 min.

I have had my porcupine in a 55 gallon tank for about 17 years and just upgraded to. A 75 a couple years ago. She is going on 19 years old and doing fine. And I have had tank mates with her