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At first, I am from The Netherlands and my English is very bad but I want to show my Precious!

After having a brackish water tank for almost a year I decided to have a FW puffer. I felt in love with the MBU but my house is too small to have a tank that big, my search for a puffer which demands fits my housing was started.

In an add on the internet I had found a Fahaka in Belgium (I live close by the Belgium border) that needed a new home. After some info gathering on the Fahaka I decided to take the jump... The owners told me that they had the puffer for a year, their opinion about the puffer was that he was lazy and agressive (lots of biting). They said it was a nasty beast.

The Fahaka was in a bucket and she didn't look like a Fahaka. So skinny, no color and it was almost like she was dead
She looked like this:


At home in her new tank






After a few weeks power-feeding she was becoming more healthier and happier! She was looking more like a Fahaka! In the beginning she even didn't know what to do with snails! A puffer who doesn't eat snails




After 3 weeks ( youtube film )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYDpHYL ... r_embedded


My Precious!

Now she's getting better so she needed a bigger home!




(I'am not fat! )


And a few pic's from then till now












Her only tank mate


And her home now


The most amazing puffer i ever seen!

Thats an amazing job you did bringing that fahaka back to health like that, he's starting to look more and more like a fahaka... but you may want to shrink your pictures down a bit, coz they took me 1-2min to load all of them and i'm on broadband

BTW, great job setting up his new home

Oke i will try to shrimp them!

And thanks!

OMG! They were starving the poor thing! No wonder he was biting everything and they called him a beast. I would too if I looked like I was starving! And I wouldn't call being "weak" from not feeding "lazy". You said they had him for a year? The poor little guy must have really suffered! I've had Annabelle for 7 months now and she's is bigger than he was when you picked him up!


I'm thrilled that someone with a heart got the little guy before he died. You did a wonderful job of making him healthy. He looks great! I love the way you set up the tank also. It's a beatuiful tank and one handsome puffer!
What's this little guys name? Btw: Welcome to the forum.

Never mind just saw the name in the title.

wow! what a turnround! im veyr impressed. Gorgeus lineatus and setup

beautiful puffer! I love those sweet eyes in the pic below the duck weed.

Wow. Poor thing. Good job!

you've done a fantastic job with her. She's most beautiful!

THE most beautiful Fahaka in the Netherlands, I can assure you all!!

Hi bauk

Wow! She's gorgeous! Great job nursing her back to health! Its so sad seeing how she started off...

Excellent job bauk, that was one poor little puffer there and you've turned it into quite the beautiful "monster"

Thx All!!
And it's really not a monster, she is sow sweet for a fahaka. She can't kill a snail bigger than 0.5" and she would prefer that I break them for her. When i clean the tank she's so scared that she's hiding in her cave

She looks fantastic!

Thx everyone!

Some new pic's of my Precious




What she does, i don't know, but when she eats she almost eating her lip..


"kiss"