The Puffer Forum

We also recently rescued a nearly dead F8 that was being kept in freshwater at an ignorant fish store. The poor fish was almost dead with a serious ich & fungal infection, ragged fins, emaciated shape and cloudy, fungus covered eyes. With a 'kill or cure' attitude we got him home and immediately...

Pamela wrote:What's central air?

I think he's refering to air conditioning.

Our Fahaka will eat mealworms and our palembangs love them, but neither species will eat superworms (sold here as jumbo mealworms), They bite them then spit them out.

With our Fahaka dental care is mostly pond snails, cooked prawns and crab legs & claws from the fishmonger.

He was probably starving. Most LFS's feed them flake food. Kim Sadly true, which is why so many Dwarf Puffers go to new owners on the verge of starvation. We bought a couple of Violet Gobies a couple of years back that the store had been trying to feed guppies to. The Gobies were so thin that thy l...

The way I understand it, all puffers puff but some species do it more readily than others. Our Fahaka, Martha sometimes does it just to draw our attention when she wants something like food or her light on in the morning if we've been tardy getting out of bed. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phillipnbe...

Martha Fahaka was £17. 95 Cookie Fahaka was free as he was almost dead in the shop and they wanted rid of him (now returned to health and rehomed) Dwarfs were £1. 95 each Browns were around £15 each Humpbacks were £15 for one and £35 each for the other two Figure Eight was free as a rescue as ...

Sexy Martha Fahaka (see Avatar)
Smaug the Dragon Puffer (t palembangensis)
Smidge the Dragon Puffer, because he's a smidge bigger than Smaug.

For fans of odd-ball fish keeping:

http://www.odd-fish.net

This is how Fahakas eat snails!

Googled it ages ago when I was trying to identify a puffer I'd bought. (turned out to be t. turgidis)
Never got around to joining untill now though.

On Thursday, LadyMinion and I took a trip to Colchester again to get worms for Boris and our usual weeky stock of live foods for everyone else from Swallow Aquatics. Against our better judgement we also popped into another store nearby as we needed vitamin dusting powder for Boris's waxworms & e...

Ha, Does anyone else's Fahaka pull funny faces when pooing?
Martha gets this glassy-eyed look of intense concentration when she needs to go then she skulks off to a stand of plants in the corner and fertilizes them with a furtive grimace.
It's hilarious to watch!