The Puffer Forum

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?

What kind of puffer do you have?

I'm buying a fahaka tomorrow its going to start in my 50 gallon till I can clean. up my 200.

A fahaka would consider a pleco as a nice, slow moving snack. In general, fahakas do not do well with tankmates.

When my fahaka was tiny he beat up and bit a massive plec, not a good idea

Someone on here once quoted:

Fahakas do not have tankmates, just swimming food reserves.

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.

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.

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)

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

theoryan19 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

That ray is a meaty quesadilla, good luck