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I forgot to say that the reason Bull Sharks are so aggressive is because they have the most testoserone of any animal land or sea. Just a useless fact ahhh im full of them

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hey jimmy could you tell me some useless facts???????

Didn't some guy post pictures of his fahaka, and one of them was his fahaka was buried under the sand?

a snakehead is no match for a fahaka puffer. the only advantage the snakehead would have is the ability to jump out of the water and retreat. the fahaka's teeth would destroy any freshwater fish. fahaka's (as well as most other puffers) can bite a crayfish in half with ease. my arrowheads eat whole crayfish in 10 seconds or less. mbu puffers actually get about a foot longer than fahaka's, but I believe usually the fahakas are much more aggressive. it is very uncommon to be able to keep anything with a fahaka puffer...even in the largest of tanks.

Jason

Fahaka puffer please Id say the most aggressive is the Affrican Pike Charcin would rip it to shreds.even a red tail cat fish cant stand up to its power. The most aggressive cichlid however i believe is the flowerhorn or JD

Fahaka puffer will kick your ***

neon tetras

you funny guy, you think you are a funny guy

neon tetras are bested by corydoras

MELANOCHROMIS AURATUS(male)

these buggers are nasty for their size, and tenacious.

he was a dominantly a deep purple when calm. When he was excited(often) he would turn an evil whitish color. I admit, he won't have a chance against a puffer beak, but, cichlid against cichlid, ounce for ounce, I stick with this guy.

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I saw this dwarf puffer chasing two clown loaches
...puffers

Fahaka puffer please Id say the most aggressive is the Affrican Pike Charcin would rip it to shreds

If that were to happen, you could say goodbye to those African Pike Characins. Puffer flesh is poisonous and will cause death.

That's the one edge I'll give arrowhead and congo puffers over fahaka's...the ability to bury themselves and blend in to the environment. One of these guys could take out any other fish, and the other fish wouldn't know the puffer was around until it was too late.

Jason

I heard that those puffers can be a bit crazy. But I have no experience with them and do not know their full rage so I would go with either convicts or maybe a Green/Red Terror.

The most bad fish in fresh water would have to be the Electric Catfish. A fish that can grow to 1m long and generate a 400 volt puntch. One fish not to be messed with fahakas are nothen compared to this bad boy.

I have seen a couple of pics of fahakas buried, but I don't think the behavior is as common in fahakas as it is in arrowheads and congos. I definitely don't think they have the ability to change colors as drastically as arrowheads and especially congos, but I could be wrong.

I've had many people come to look at my tanks, and when we get to the arrowhead tanks I usually have to point out the puffer or put food in the tank...otherwise they can be very difficult to see.

Jason

Convicts are not that mean only when they are protecting there young. i would go with the FRESHWATER BARRACUDA OR THE PIRAHNA.

Neon tetras, some joke]

No even better feeder guppies are the meanest! ]]]

angle fish. my big one is after killing my grouamie and my bala shark.

most pirhanas aren't mean...they're just hungry. many people mistake red bellied pirhanas as being highly aggressive fish when they're actually not. I've seen huge display tanks at a public aquarium with pirhanas, oscars, catfish and such. the pirhanas school by themselves and don't bother the rest of the fish.

Jason

I gotta say it depends on the individual fish and not the species (obviously some species are more aggressive than others).
But I have one red devil that is psychotic - the fish has been insane since he was very small. I had him when he was a baby with an oscar that was more than 2x its size - I put them in the tank hoping that the oscar will not eat this little guy - 20 min later I come to find the Oscar pecked to death.
This fish also bites me on a regular basis. If I open the lid to the tank, I have to make sure the fish is in a net - because it will jump out of the aquarium to bite me.

FRESHWATER BARRACUDA IS THE NASTIES IT WOULD RIP THAT FAHAKA PUFFER APART BEFORE IT EVEN GOT A SHOT AT IT. HA!


LOOOK AT THEIR TEETH!]:|]:|]:|]]

FRESHWATER BARRACUDA IS THE NASTIES IT WOULD RIP THAT FAHAKA PUFFER APART BEFORE IT EVEN GOT A SHOT AT IT

in which case the barracuda would be dead...tetraodotoxin in the puffer's flesh incidentally, an arrowhead would start taking chunks out of the barracuda before the 'cuda knew the puff was around.

have you ever seen the teeth of these puffers?

incidentally, we're talking about "meanest/most aggressive fish". I will admit I know next to nothing about fw barracudas, but I know most people mistake pirhana's for being evil, mean fish. they're not...they're just hungry. a school of pirhana's will kill anything if they are hungry, but if they're not chances are they'll leave other fish alone.

now, here is a story of an arrowhead puffer originally told by Pufferpunk--she is a member of this site. She went to an lfs to buy an arrowhead puffer. there were 2 at the lfs, and both were in separate bags floating in the same tank. one of the arrowheads ate through the bag it was in, then ate through the other bag simply to kill the other puffer.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but these puffers aren't very common, and I can tell you it's difficult to understand what they are capable of without seeing them first hand. I have, however, seen fw barracudas, exodons and pirhanas and I would say an arrowhead could take them out no problem.

just my $0.02

Jason

just found this finding pics of the puffer's teeth can be difficult, but click on that link and look at the 3rd pic down and you'll get an idea of what a puffer's teeth look like. keep in mind, these are fused into their jaws and have the power to bit a fiddler crab in half with ease. they don't rip other fish apart like pirhanas and barracudas...they bite fish in half.

Jason