Ceylon Puffers & Feeding

[crackmonkey]

My Ceylon Puffers eat any frozen fish foods that I give them, bloodworm, discus mix, krill, cichlid mix & brine shrimp. I give them snails once a week to keep their teeth down too. Im just wondering it im giving them a good diet or is there something else better for them?

 

[jimi priest 0189]

mot realy Feed ghost shrimp, snails, bloodworms, krill, shell-on shrimp, crabs, clams, and mussels. Snails
by the way whats your tank size and poulation

 

[crackmonkey]

mot realy Feed ghost shrimp, snails, bloodworms, krill, shell-on shrimp, crabs, clams, and mussels. Snails
by the way whats your tank size and poulation

40 gallon with four Ceylons but they were sold to me as Figure Eights and then I found out otherwise. Planning on getting rid of two since they grow to around 6 - 8 inches, maybe eventually get rid of them all together when they get too big for the tank and replace them with two figure eights.

 

[jimi priest 0189]

yeah you have to be careful of what they say they are, they're almost always mis-marked and in fresh water

 

[SirMinion]

yeah you have to be careful of what they say they are, they're almost always mis-marked and in fresh water

Very true.
Around here I see ceylons marked up as figure eights more often than I see actual figure eights and the two species are VERY different.

 

[neilw_uk]

Very true.
Around here I see ceylons marked up as figure eights more often than I see actual figure eights and the two species are VERY different.

Tell me about it!!!!!!!!

I purchased two "figure 8" puffers yesterday, only to get home and post a pic on the pufferforum as i was not convinced and found out they were Ceylons!!

This caused a big problem as i only had a 25 gallon for them! I had to split my community fish up today and change them into my 60G tank. Poor community fish!