Nightster's fahaka puffer thread

[Geral]

That sound weak, it's his nature is to kill like that , I use to keep snakes and it's the same when u start pre kill the rats after a while they lost the wild hunt mode and become lazy , fish is the same puffers are hunters !!

[nightster]

Re: Nightster's fahaka puffer thread

Puffer man almost lost an eye to a beast of a crawfish one time too. After he shook it off the went after the head and killed it immediately.

[mistahoo]

That sound weak, it's his nature is to kill like that , I use to keep snakes and it's the same when u start pre kill the rats after a while they lost the wild hunt mode and become lazy , fish is the same puffers are hunters !!

May sound weak, but would you rather have a puffer with it's eyes or without it? That's just like saying feeding fish pellets makes them weak. It's in their nature to eat whatever it is that they eat in nature...

[Geral]

That's another thing, size matter here , if the crawfish is big , that would do damage I thing u was talking about small to medium size,

Not every fish is a predatory fish in the nature , when I use to have predatory fish I will feed live fish raise by me , and pellets some time only I get lazy all depend of the species , but puffer prey size matter.

[nightster]

Re: Nightster's fahaka puffer thread

I think the claw conversation jinxed puffer man. This one decided to fight back. Probably will be cutting off the claws from now on. This one wasn't that big.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdjtkl96hks&feature=youtube_gdata_player

There is a mark under his eye, wonder how long it'll be there. It didn't actually cut his skin, its tougher than I thought.

[nightster]

Re: Nightster's fahaka puffer thread

The mark under his eye is getting better, still there but not as noticeable. Doesn't even seem to have bothered him, he never changed coloration which usually means he is stressed about something. I dropped 8-9 ram horns in after the crawfish battle and he gobbled up like nothing. So I'm positive he'll be fine. Any bigger of a crawfish and I fear it could have been worse. I don't care how unsporting it is, I will cut the claws off of all the crawfish I feed him from now on. Not worth him losing an eye BC of me. Although they do face tougher conditions in the wild, this puffer is my responsibility and I will do what I can to take care of him. I'll step down off my soap box now.

[nightster]

Re: Nightster's fahaka puffer thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX7COtOnRjY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[BeefyG]

It looks like they're making out lol

[nightster]

Re: Nightster's fahaka puffer thread

Lol I like watching its mouth move in slow mo. Pretty neat

[Ogrodii]

nice stuff that crawfish was not goin down with out a fight.

[allysangels]

sweet! i just posted an update on mine too... :)

[nightster]

Well I moved my puffer's tank this past Sunday for space and to spread the electrical load out a bit in my house. The breaker to my dining room/fish room was catching hell. Anyways, i decided to do away with the plastic plants bc i kept seeing bits and pieces that my puffer bit off going after something or bc of random pufferness in the wet/dry pad. So now its just the fake root/stump thing that is his home and 2 small holey rock pieces. He seems way more active after the move, non-stop swimming. Will post a picture later tonight. also here is a video of him eating a crawfish in slo-mo.

http://youtu.be/cX7COtOnRjY

[nightster]

Well I sold the fx5 off the puffer tank and added a 2250+ and a 1400gph koralia for some extra flow. Puffer is doing good, growing slowly.

[SunnyHouTX]

Sounds good man.

[aquabee]

He looks really good... You've done awesome raising him.