Dwarf puffer
Carinotetraodon travancoricus
A three-centimetre hunter hovering like a helicopter, eyes swiveling apart.
3D model coming soon
Stats
- Size
- 3 cm
- Smallest tank
- 45 cm
- Temperature
- 23–28 °C
- Temperament
- Semi-aggressive
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Moderate
- Water layer
- Mid water
- Care
- Moderate
- Group
- Lives on its own
- Coral
- Reef safe
These numbers are LumaReef simulation data, not a real aquarium care guide.
Which tank it fits
- Nano60 cm · 65 litres21 of them
- Standard90 cm · 180 litres60 of them
- Wide120 cm · 300 litres100 of them
- Living room180 cm · 650 litres216 of them
- Showcase250 cm · 1,200 litres400 of them
Who it lives with
Gets along
- Neon tetra
- Guppy
- Green neon tetra
- Lambchop rasbora
- Endler's livebearer
- Galaxy rasbora
- Glowlight danio
- Pygmy corydoras
- Clown killifish
- Ember tetra
- Black neon tetra
- Glowlight tetra
- Chili rasbora
- Green kubotai rasbora
- Otocinclus
- Sparkling gourami
- Cardinal tetra
- Lemon tetra
- Penguin tetra
- Harlequin rasbora
- Honey gourami
- Rummynose tetra
- Emperor tetra
- Zebra danio
- and 40 more species
Caution
- DiscusNarrow shared temperature range
- Serpae tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Multies shell dwellerBoth semi-aggressive
- Odessa barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Panda corydorasNarrow shared temperature range
- Chocolate gouramiNarrow shared temperature range
- German blue ramNarrow shared temperature range
- Black skirt tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Diamond tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Tiger barbBoth semi-aggressive
- Hillstream loachNarrow shared temperature range
- Paradise fishNarrow shared temperature range
- Gold barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Dwarf gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Cockatoo cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Rosy barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Yellow lab cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Denison barbNarrow shared temperature range
- JulidochromisBoth semi-aggressive
- African butterflyfishBoth semi-aggressive
- SwordtailBoth semi-aggressive
- Three spot gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Yoyo loachBoth semi-aggressive
- Peacock cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Firemouth cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Freshwater angelfishBoth semi-aggressive
- Rainbow sharkBoth semi-aggressive
- SeverumBoth semi-aggressive
- Kissing gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- FrontosaBoth semi-aggressive
- OscarBoth semi-aggressive
- Black ghost knifefishBoth semi-aggressive
- KoiNarrow shared temperature range
Same familyColdwater and oddities
- Fancy goldfishCarassius auratus
- KoiCyprinus rubrofuscus
- Rainbow sharkEpalzeorhynchos frenatum
- Red tail sharkEpalzeorhynchos bicolor
- Bala sharkBalantiocheilos melanopterus
- Silver dollarMetynnis argenteus
- Black ghost knifefishApteronotus albifrons
- African butterflyfishPantodon buchholzi
- Clown killifishEpiplatys annulatus