Fahaka puffer eating apple snail

My fahaka puffer eating an apple snail (poor snail, life is cruel)

Not much action after the first couple of minutes, I think it's to distracted by me (or the camera).

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• fahaka
• puffer
• nile
• eating
• applesnail
• pufferfish
• tetraodon
• lineatus
• aquarium
• tank
• fish
• feeding

[nothingbettertodosoo]

Are fahakas fast swimmers? You told me that angels would be massacred but my angels r pretty aggressive and FAST too. These guys can really swim. They're also thick (for angelfish) and very strong. One of mine spooked and sandwiched himself between the glass and driftwood and when I freed him he acted like nothing ever happened. Btw you might want to trim your puffers teeth. Thy look a little long.

[swexeladnil]

@nothingbettertodosoo Yes, they are quite fast sprinters, but they mostly hunt by stalking. Even if your angelfish is thick and strong, they are nothing for the beak of a fahaka, they are made to crush clams and such you know. One bite and that´s it for the other fish. Shure, try it if you want to, but I think angelfish to its nature is to slow and calm to survive the quite dangerous situation you'll put it in.

[swexeladnil]

@nothingbettertodosoo And yeah, the teeths are trimmed :)

[nothingbettertodosoo]

Does your puffer bother the smaller fish in the tank? I was thinking about putting one in my 75 with angelfish but heard they were extremely aggressive and would kill the angels but I'm beginning to question that because I've seen many tanks with these guys co habitating with other fish.

[swexeladnil]

@nothingbettertodosoo That's not a good idea if you want to keep the other fish, all of the other fish in this video have been eaten, one by one. You can try to keep a fahaka with other fast swimming and alert fish though, I have siamese algea eaters today, that works quite well. I imagine that angelfish would be massacred instantly tough...

[Nathan1097]

That is so neat. I have a dwarf puffer and he only gets tiny snails and doesn't bite them open like that.

[swexeladnil]

I had dwarf puffers to, but fahaka ate them... :/

[Ricine]

1:36 cracked me up

[Krickette]

OMG it's adorable!! I wish I could magic my F8 to get that big lol. Puffers are so cute, one day I'll be able to have a monster tank and a big one.

[spenceryoung123]

@spenceryoung123 nevermind. i saw them up close

[spenceryoung123]

are those smaller fish in there feeders or fry?

[Liuhuayue]

@alainacrane lol.