Miles - about your fahaka

[rumblesushi]

Damn nice one ;) Looks like a candy cane.

I notice you have it with other fish - how aggressive is he? I've heard people say they destroy their tankmates etc, but yours looks to be fine with other fish.

How compatible are they with other fish in general?

Cheers,
JR

[Miles]

Sorry I am a little late to your reply..

I found it did very well in a 120g wide with many hiding spots combined with very fast moving larger schooling fish.. ie: rainbows, tinfoil barbs, giant danios.. Did some African Cichlids and South Americans, too.. but you have to be careful they don't nip the Fahaka.. it helps if it is much larger and established for those type of tankmates.

[RedDevilDon2005]

wow, lol. this is 2 years old :ROFL: but seriously. your pufferis bad ass. show us some pics brother

[Pufferpunk]

99% of all fahaka puffers are killers & will murder anything even before it's let out of the bag. My friend's 4" fahaka bit an 8" pleco in half as soon as it hit the water. I do not believe a fahaka can be trained not to eat their tank mates.

There are about 1% of the Fahakas that do allow tank mates. Even though, everyone needs their own territory & the tank has to be large enough. I happen to have a 10" fahaka that was moved to a 55g (at 5") with 2 with plecos & a soft-shell turtle. Within 2 days, the whole back rim of the turtle's shell was scalloped, so he got his own tank.

He now lives in a 125g with:
12" Goldspot pleco
6" sailfin pleco
10" Yellow-finned chalcius
2 7" Clown loaches
9" Lancer catfish
5" Rainbow shark
6" Redtail shark
5" Bosmani rainbow
7" Frontosa
8" & 9" Elephant noses (18 years old)
12” Black Ghost Knife
Occasionally there is a fin nipped but all in all, he's a wimp & the Goldspot & Frontosa is always kicking him out of his cave.

After living with all these guys for years, my stepdaughter needed somewhere for her large parrot cichlid, since she was moving. I watch them for about an hour, went out that evening & within the 5 hours I was gone, it was dead--tail & eyes missing. Moral of this story: You can never really trust a fahaka!

[niblit]

i keep mine w/ pricilia tetras and rainbows but keep in mind i work with fish and get a really good deal on fish and bring home replacments often;)