The Puffer Forum

It seems that mine the bigger he gets the less active he is. Unless he is
hunting, then he just creeps around and BOOM all you see is water
being displaced. Then its back to laying in the corner watching everything.

See old dogs do learn new tricks. I learned something. Thanks! :D

I was just always told that
FW water bacteria will not servive the change to salt.
I was going off this statement.....


also added large pieces of lace rock from an established FW tank also for bacteria. [quote]

The one thing that isn't mentioned here is that all the substrate and "live rock" came from freshwater right. Now if memory serves me right the saltwater bacteria is not the same as in fw, which would boil down to the tank was not cycled. Everyone is here for only one reason OUR FISH if yo...

I have:

Spike - Fahaka
Kane - Ceylon
Undertaker - GSP
Sir Poopi - pleco

Well there is actually to many to name in the tropical
so I will leave it at that.

Hello all. I used to post as yshurtleff, don't be fooled by the NICE AND SHY acting of your Fahaka, Mine had tank mates for about 1 year being pushed around by tiger barbs. Spike is about 13 to 14 inches now by the way. For awhile he was the one getting nipped and even some of his dorsal fin, then I...