It is best housed with non-aggressive tankmates. If housed with aggressive feeders, it may have trouble competing for food. Possible to keep more than one in the same tank (especially young individuals), but adult males may quarrel. It is a larger boxfish that will need lots of open swimming space. Make sure not keep it with fishes that will pick on it and remove it immediately if it looks as though it may die. This species is susceptible to Cryptocaryon and Lymphocystis.