Fahaka
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I guess this is a monster i will have to wait on. when i get a bigger tank, it will be for my 10" kk parrot, and 12" carapo!
I kept one with black neon tetras and danios. But it was 16-17 inches and not fast enough to catch them. Nor was it interested in eating them as it ate only the finest local prawns from Whitstable Bay!
mine got scared by a neighboring kk parrot and puffed up.. it was very amusing.
Was the parrot in the same tank? If it was did it die? I heard that puffers release a poison when they puff up that will more than likely kill everything in the tank.
Not true, the poison is in the ovaries and skin musculature. Marine Boxfish are known to release poisons when stessed or dying.
when i had mine i saw it puff up twice....the first time was accidental the second was out of ignorance. The first was when it got attacked by my florida gar, after that the faaka made the gars life a living hell and it was only 3 inchs the gar was 10...second was because i took it out of the water.
