I have 3 filters on my fahaka's tank: 2 Aquaclear 500s & an Eheim 2217. I do 75% WC weekly but also have a lot of other fish in his 125g tank.
Fahaka puffer??
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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 12" 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 (eaten after 5 years)
6" Redtail shark (eaten after 5 years)
5" Bosmani rainbow (eaten after 3 years)
7" Frontosa
8" & 9" Elephant noses (20 years old)
12” Black Ghost Knife
Occasionally there is a fin nipped but all in all, he's a wimp & the Goldspot & Frontosa are always kicking him out of his cave. I tried countless small. fast-moving fish like neons & tiger barbs. Neans lasted less than a week. Tiger barbs got larger than any T-barb I've ever seen & then got picked off one by one. 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!
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 (eaten after 5 years)
6" Redtail shark (eaten after 5 years)
5" Bosmani rainbow (eaten after 3 years)
7" Frontosa
8" & 9" Elephant noses (20 years old)
12” Black Ghost Knife
Occasionally there is a fin nipped but all in all, he's a wimp & the Goldspot & Frontosa are always kicking him out of his cave. I tried countless small. fast-moving fish like neons & tiger barbs. Neans lasted less than a week. Tiger barbs got larger than any T-barb I've ever seen & then got picked off one by one. 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!
Thats great, I have mine in a 72g corner tank at 5'' and he has a male convict as a mate. In the first week the convict got a bad lower jaw injury. And now has a missing eye. But since that everything is fine. It has been in there for 6 months now. And i check to see if the con is alive daily.
I tried 2 Bala Sharks in the tank with my Fahaka.....didn't go to well. Needless to say they ended up becoming dinner for my bf's P.Bass. She really enjoyed them! lol
He has a little Tag-Along guppy that came with him when we got him from the LFS and he is still kickin! I would hate to spend money on fish to try as tank mates.....maybe he will just stay by himself.
My bf paid like $8 dollars for our Fahaka at his regular LFS and he is about 2". I can't wait till he becomes a REAL monster!! He is my first monster fish!!!
He has a little Tag-Along guppy that came with him when we got him from the LFS and he is still kickin! I would hate to spend money on fish to try as tank mates.....maybe he will just stay by himself.
My bf paid like $8 dollars for our Fahaka at his regular LFS and he is about 2". I can't wait till he becomes a REAL monster!! He is my first monster fish!!!
