🐟 Fahaka Pufferfish (Tetraodon lineatus)
Bold Golden Stripes on a Powerful Body • An Intelligent Puffer That Knows Its Keeper • The Ultimate Solo Showpiece
 
📋 The Fahaka Pufferfish, also known as the Nile Puffer, carries a powerful, rounded body marked with bold golden-yellow stripes over olive and white, with big, expressive eyes that follow everything around the room. It's one of the largest and most impressive freshwater puffers, and a true pet fish with real personality.
It comes from the rivers and floodplains of northern and West Africa, including the Nile. Every Fahaka Pufferfish we ship is feeding well.
This is an intelligent, interactive fish that quickly learns to recognise its keeper, begging at the glass and taking food from tongs. It's a confident, territorial character, so it's best kept as the single star of its own tank. It loves crunchy foods like snails and shellfish, which keep its beak-like teeth trimmed, and it grows up to 45cm, so a 450L tank suits a growing fish, with more space as it matures.
 
💡 Highlights
🟡 Bold Golden Stripes: Golden lines over olive and white
👀 Expressive Eyes: Follows everything around the room
🧠 Knows Its Keeper: Intelligent and interactive
🐡 Puffs Up: Can inflate into a ball when startled
🏆 Giant Freshwater Puffer: One of the largest in the hobby
👑 Solo Showpiece: The star of its own tank