The Puffer Forum

No temporary tanks? So your suggesting that a fahaka puffer should go into no less then a 120g tank regardless of size or age? Seems kinda silly to have a little tiny fish roaming around by itself in a huge tank. Grow out tanks are very common practice in the hobby, works for other species of fish n...

if you can't do a 120+ gal tank.. then there is little point. You can keep your fish in what ever you want. Minimum is just that, it is not optimum. I had a 250 gal tank that I chose not to keep a fahaka in. It turned out to be a wise decision. The issue isn't what size tank I will be able to keep ...

I suspect that means that the fish is currently in a 29 and is already stunted - in that tank it cannot really swim, exercise at all. The fish should already be in a much larger tank. Funny, a tank that has length 5x, a width 2x and a height 3x the puffer's length, leaves the puffer no room the &qu...

Well if it is going to be stunted anyways in the 55g then no sense moving it from the 29g for now.

Thanks for everyones comments, probably just have to sell the little guy.

What is going to cause stunting? The water quality or size of the tank?

Thanks, that seems to be the general profile for a fahaka throughout the web. My current concern is how long a fahaka(now 6") can live in a 55g tank 48x12x21". I need to decide whether to keep the puffer or not, though having to dedicate just a 120g tank shouldn't be too though.

Hi, my name is Brian. I just acquired a fahaka puffer and am looking for tips/experiences that are that beyond the info found through general research

Thanks.