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Cover Images  Alone But Not Lonely:  The Importance of  Keeping
Puffers Individually    Alone But Not Lonely: The Importance of
Keeping Puffers Individually  By Damien Wagaman  Lately, I’ve
been concerned about a trend I've noticed on Puffer-keeping
forums: Aquarists purchase an additional Puffer to prevent the
first Puffer that they own from “getting lonely”. In this
article, I hope to explain why this is unnecessary, and may even
be hazardous for your Puffers.  Many fish species throughout the
world school or shoal for protection from predators. By staying
together in large numbers, these fish