Looking at your profile picture gives me a reference to the size of your fahaka even though I admit I don't have specific details like you said. No where in my post did I suggest that you did not know what you were doing in regard to your puffer I am simply giving my opinion based on a video of another fahaka(this is not my video or my fahaka http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHjkNHsO31A)
Puffers are wild caught, meaning that they have to work much harder for their food in nature then they do when they live with us in our tanks. When we raise our puffers they no longer have to hunt for food because it is provided by us, and we have to control the amount of food they receive per meal. Also since they are now in a tank instead of their natural environment there is now less of a way for them to burn off the calories between meals meaning they are much more susceptible to weight gain.
I feel that I am simply trying to look out for your pet's best interest and it was not meant to be a personal attack. Keeping fish like many things in life is never boring because there are always new technology, new methodology, and new ideas for ways to raise fish so that everyone is constantly relearning and challenging old ideas.
Puffers are wild caught, meaning that they have to work much harder for their food in nature then they do when they live with us in our tanks. When we raise our puffers they no longer have to hunt for food because it is provided by us, and we have to control the amount of food they receive per meal. Also since they are now in a tank instead of their natural environment there is now less of a way for them to burn off the calories between meals meaning they are much more susceptible to weight gain.
I feel that I am simply trying to look out for your pet's best interest and it was not meant to be a personal attack. Keeping fish like many things in life is never boring because there are always new technology, new methodology, and new ideas for ways to raise fish so that everyone is constantly relearning and challenging old ideas.
