The Puffer Forum

Update: you can put me firmly in the camp of people who recommend no tankmates for a fahaka. He lasted this long, but two large severums ended up dead in the last two weeks. I gave the other four cichlids in the tank away, so now my fahaka is alone with a pleco who hides all day long. By the way, he...

I'm trying to consolidate tanks, and I'm thinking of moving my 3 Fig-8's into an established tank, with some livebearers and plants and....LOTS of Snails! There are probably 50-60 snails in the tank. They're wrecking the plants, but my wife likes them, so we never remove them. She knows that they'll...

I turned the tank light on and he was fine, and a couple minutes later, he was a round spiky ball. I sorta feel like porcs puff more readily than other puffers, just from seeing more videos of them on YouTube than anything else. Is this true? I know it's never the best thing when any puffer puffs, b...

Pufferpunk wrote:"Fugu" is is a genus name, not a species. Are you speaking of the Takifugu ocellatus species?

Yes. The store listed it as Fugu, but I figured that they'd call any of them just "fugu", so I looked on pufferpedia and that's what it's listed as on there.

It's listed in PufferPedia as SW, but I've seen them in some LFSs in Brackish. PufferPedia seems to imply that not much is known about them...is this true? I've got to think that some people have had some experience with them, as I've seen them available pretty often. They seem pretty cool.

I upped the temp and added the salt, as well as doing a small water change. The puffer seems to be getting better about resting so much. I still haven't seen any signs of ich in him. I've read somewhere that ich is kinda like the chickenpox. The fish only get it once, then they're pretty much immune...

Okay...I've upped the temp, and I'm going to add the salt after today's water change. I've noticed that my puffer is burying himself more than normal. After getting used to the tank, he was always active and swimming around. Starting yesterday, I hardly see him, and not just after feedings. He skipp...

I have a 3" fahaka in my 110 with some S. American cichlids. I foolishly added a Bushy Nose pleco to the tank, as I've heard they are good algae eaters for life (his life ended up just lasting for a few more days...either the fahaka or the common pleco got him). After the untimely passing of th...

He's already exploring the whole tank. AND being aggressive when other fish get too close... uh oh. I just hope this means that he'll start eating today.

I got him today. He should have plenty of places to hide, as there's two small pieces of driftwood, one very large piece, and one small rock. Every once and a while, he gets up and swims in the middle of the tank, so maybe he's just adjusting.

Well, I got the fahaka. He's only around 2-2.5" right now. I ended up just putting him in the 110 with the other fish, but I'm starting to regret it. Not because I'm afraid he'll kill them all overnight, but because he's just so small. I think the larger fish are freaking him out. I'm going to ...

I have no plans of letting the fahaka (who would be only 3" or so) kill everything in the tank. If any fish was injured more than just fin nipping, or even if it seemed that the fish were too stressed, I would relocate every other fish in the tank. I once tried a 3" oscar with this group o...

It's not so much that I'm really concerned with the other fish getting eaten... I know that sounds harsh, but, while I like these fish, I see them as more "secondary" fish, and if things get too rough for them, I'll just move them to a new home. I'm more concerned with the larger fish bull...

Pufferpunk wrote:My Valentni doesn't seem to bother anything but I don't have SPS in his tank.

What about the clean-up crew? Doesn't bother motile inverts?

But will the larger fish bother the fahaka? I would be getting this fish knowing that it would eventually be the only fish in the tank (one way or another...). How sensitive are fahakas to ph, hardness, nitrates, etc?