new puffer
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sw10mm
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new puffer
So I have a 200 gallon tank going to use pool filter sand as substrate little bit of plants wet dry filter with 1200gph turn over.... what d
o you all. think? Anychance I can add a pleco or jag cichlid?
o you all. think? Anychance I can add a pleco or jag cichlid?
- Pufftastic
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sw10mm
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Re: new puffer
I'm buying a fahaka tomorrow its going to start in my 50 gallon till I can clean. up my 200.
- purplecandle
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Re: new puffer
A fahaka would consider a pleco as a nice, slow moving snack. In general, fahakas do not do well with tankmates.
- bertie 83
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Re: new puffer
When my fahaka was tiny he beat up and bit a massive plec, not a good idea
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- sgtmyers88
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Re: new puffer
Someone on here once quoted:
Fahakas do not have tankmates, just swimming food reserves.
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Re: new puffer
You may just get the 1% fahaka who allows tank mates. Mine does--although there are some he lived with for years & then turned on them.
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nzac
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Re: new puffer
my fahaka has allowed 3-4 convicts to live with him, but has also eaten 3-4 of them. Just a matter of time before he eats them all.
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Re: new puffer
Im somewhat part of the 1% group, my girls been living with a rubber lip pleco? And a yellow lab chiclid for a hair over 3 years, although she has in the past taken down a school of rosie reds i added (at least i think it was her)
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theoryan19
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Re: new puffer
I have a 10 inch Motoro Ray in with my fahaka puffer and they get along quite well I use to have my 14" Mbu in with the Ray but he got to big for my 125g tank so I switched him to a 300 gallon tank that I custom built at my work
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Re: new puffer
That ray is a meaty quesadilla, good lucktheoryan19 wrote:I have a 10 inch Motoro Ray in with my fahaka puffer and they get along quite well I use to have my 14" Mbu in with the Ray but he got to big for my 125g tank so I switched him to a 300 gallon tank that I custom built at my work
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