Fahaka...wish me luck....

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Mine is mean but lazy, I'm pretty sure only hasn't eaten my pleco cause he moves " too fast" for the effort lol. He lived for a week with a few cichlids until one got too close to his food and go chomped


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Mine was okay for a few months but since then he has eaten EVERYONE. It usually happens at night without warning. Never again, in one night he ate my julli corys, my large common pleco, my clown pleco and 2 tetras..i house him now only with a Rainbowshark that he grew up with which might play a role in its success. Just throw in 5 giant danios if you really want fillers. They are fast, active comical and most importantly cheap. Fahakas are master stockers and he will sneak up on those too and eat them.
 
probably not, I hear they are worse when they get larger. Feed him one of these daily though and it might help - :chillpill:

UnstoppableJayD said:
Over a week and no casulties... really there was only one more tail bite that I have seen...Have i Tamed the fahaka????
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strollo22 said:
I just bough 2 medium sized blood parrots (twice my Fahakas size) and he immediately decided he wasn't having it lol


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Ouch.. i guess its better to be lucking then good... lol

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jgordon said:
He's going to bite some fins.

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He has bitten one tail once.the first day.

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^ Its always a game of chance with Fahaka's, with the odds against the other fish in the tank most of the time...

My girl now over 14" has been living in my 200G now for just over 3 years now, and in that time, she has bit my yellow lab twice (both were warning bites, nothing serious), and taken out a school of Rosy Red Barbs (during her first year in the tank)...

So i would say just always be aware of your fahaka behavior, and if you must have tank mates with your puffer, be sure to give them a lot of areas to hide where the fahaka can't reach...
 
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