Fahaka

[Fish00]

I can finnaly house one.
what should I look for exept fat ones when buying,
How much should I pay,
How many gallons.

 

[Puffer_freak]

Look for the ones with the least tattered fin etc.

Just think about if they look healthy or not

 

[Fish00]

Have you kept one before?
If so What kind of personality did yours have?
The above question is adressed to all.

 

[Puffer_freak]

No, I haven't, but Sir and LadyM do and Paul_MTS is going to have one of their two.

 

[Paul_MTS]

can't wait either!!

I think Seapets had them priced up for about £15. Although I would probable pay up to £30 for a well rounded healthy one as apposed to seapets purely kept ones.

Cookie the Minions rescue fahaka will be going straight into a freshly built tank just for him which is 100uk gallons (120us g's) he might need to moved into a bigger tank eventually. Oh and the tank will ne a 4x2x2 with plenty of filtration in the form of a sump and a big pump!!

 

[Puffer_freak]

One lucky lil puffer! And one tough little cookie! Badpun...very bad pun

Anyways...

back on topic....

 

[andywg]

Technically no pun, as that is exactly where the name comes from. The minions always have a quirky and somewhat enigmatic way of naming their fish (say their other puffer's name followed by the common name for it's breed ).

AS has been said before with Fahakas, be very careful and cautious about keeping it with anything you don't want to lose.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

...like your fingers.

pretty much all the questions you're asking have been answered lately in the thread named (drumroll, please): Fahaka Pufer!

 

[Fish00]

what substrate.
Paul_MTS
Ypur uk bassed right?
How do You treat internal parasites with puffers?

 

[Paul_MTS]

Sand is the best for puffers.

Yep i'm UK. I don't have my fahaka yet, i need to get the tank first which will be on order at the end of this week.

hopefully i'll never have internal parasite probelms!!

 

[Fish00]

Discomed is not avalible here though,
I will be getting one for £15-30
Quite the scar to lose but it's no diffrent to lossing an entire tank to another illness.

What type of sand are you using.
Osio Sand looks nice but so does silica.

 

[SirMinion]

The sand has to have rounded grains, be fairly heavy and totaly inert.

Play sand is ideal.

Read more about keeping Fahakas on this thread.

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=82208

 

[Fish00]

Don't you keep yours in a 55 gallon us rio 240

 

[SirMinion]

Technically no pun, as that is exactly where the name comes from.  The minions always have a quirky and somewhat enigmatic way of naming their fish (say their other puffer's name followed by the common name for it's breed.

Very true.

Heres some examples:

Most of our fish's names are based on puns or tenuous links to their species name or appearance.

Examples:

• Cookie (Fahaka Pufferfish- because he's one tough cookie! see here)
• Martha (Fahaka Pufferfish- I'm not explaining this pun!)
• Stewart (Common pleco- because he's Martha's tankmate)
• Julian (Ornate Bichir [pronounced b'sheer] - Named after a StarTrek character)
• Broccolli (Huge Starlight Bristlenose - because his bristles look like broccolli and when we bought him we took him home in a polybox that had previously contained broccolli
• Achillies (Fire eel - a pun on "Achillies Heel")
• Snicket (Lemon Spotted green Plec - Named after Lemony Snicket, the author of the series of unfortunate events books.)
• Smaug (Dragon Puffer- Smaug is a Dragon from Tolkien's The Hobbit)
• Archie (Target Puffer- Archie is a pun on 'archery'..which has targets)
• Jif (Royal Panaque- I think 'panaque' sounds a little like 'pan cake' and In Britain, pancakes are most often serves with sugar & lemon juice, The leading brand of lemon juice is 'Jif' - I told you some of them are tenuous!)
• Roy (Chubby Plec - named after Roy Chubby Brown, a non-funny British Comedian)
• Josie (Sultan Pleco- his scientific name is L. joselimie
• Sherman & Panzer (Armoured shrimps- They look like little tanks)
• Twiggy (farowella catfish- looks like a twig)

OK.. back to the topic...

 

[Fish00]

sir Can you awnser my question please.