Porcupine with Snowflake/Ghost Ribbon

[mal211]

Seems like my medium size puffer is picking on my snowflake and ghost ribbon eel. Any suggestions? Feeding is every two days and I am concerned about over-feeding. I've read multiple places that eels (typically bottom dwellers) and puffers (typically stay towards to the top of the tank) work fine with enough LR. Any ideas?

[Reefing Madness]

Seems like my medium size puffer is picking on my snowflake and ghost ribbon eel. Any suggestions? Feeding is every two days and I am concerned about over-feeding. I've read multiple places that eels (typically bottom dwellers) and puffers (typically stay towards to the top of the tank) work fine with enough LR. Any ideas?

You heard correct. I had em both in a 125g tank, no issues. Hmm, only thing I can think of, what size is the tank you have? Do you have enough Live Rock for the Eels to hide in? What are you feeding them? And Puffers don't really stay at the top, they comb the reef looking for inverts and clams to munch on.

[leebca]

Sometimes you can't account for an individual fish's personality. Although the two have gone together well in large systems, in smaller systems or just by the individual personality, they may not get along.

[mal211]

Yeah, setup may not be as ideal as I would like. Plan has always been to upgrade when puffer got too big. Currently running a 72g bowfront with about 90lbs of live rock. Only inhabitants are two smaller eels and the 5-6in puffer. Because it is a FOWLR system, no corals for the puffer to really go after. Any suggestions with the two eels besides an upgrade? Individual personalities definitely make a huge difference. You never really know what you are going to get with a fish, no matter what the books say.

[leebca]

Like Reefing Madness mentioned, try rearranging the rocks and putting in some additional dead rock to provide better hidey holes. That's about it as far as I know.