Daphnia and puffers

[mattbeau]

Ok I picked up some Daphni at the LFS made by HIkari, The stuff is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo small, I put some in and he looks at me and is like "hey quit polluting the water"



My neons love the stuff though


did I get the right stuff or do you guys actually manage to feed it to your puffers?

 

[smooth_bourbon]

my gsp's wouldnt touch it but the mollys loved it. One of my puffers loved emerald green entree and the other was really into plankton, or krill.

Loved fresh food clams, muscles, ghost shrimp.

 

[SirMinion]

The daphnia we give our Dwarf puffers is either live or frozen in little cubes.

I've never tried the prcessed stuff because I know my puffers wouldn't touch it.

 

[mattbeau]

this is stuff in little cubes hat you thaw out

alas i guess it will just sit in the freezer with the frozen brine shrimp

luckily though my other fish will eat the stuff


can you actually get fresh clams and muscles at a LFS or do you need to actually go out and find the stuff in rivers and lakes? or is the same stuff you pick up at the grocery store?

 

[SirMinion]

Can you actually get fresh clams and muscles at a LFS ... is it the same stuff you pick up at the grocery store?

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We buy fresh or frozen clams, cockles, mussells, prawns, crab and small fish (whiting or whitebait) from the fishmonger.

 

[smooth_bourbon]

I used to buy clams, muscles, and shrimp from Albertsons. Everyone who works in the seafood section remembers me since I would go in and buy one of each . Got the funniest looks till I explained what they were for.

 

[Dwarfs]

My puffers eat most of what I gve them, freeze dried bloodworm, FD krill (crushed), and even FD daphnia on occasion Try fasting the puffer for a couple days in a slightly raised temperature, that usually gets picky fish to eat

 

[mattbeau]

the problem being is i dont think he really acknowladges it as food

luckily though my neons go bonkers for it

as far as clams and muscles.... they sell these at a size that he can handle? or do you break it up for him?

I plan on shortly moving the community to a 55 gallon I have locked on, probably tuesday, . so I'll be turning the 20 gallon to a dp tank, which i'll probably throw three more dp's in with him at that point.

if I were a bit more experienced I'd use it for a F8 or SAP, but brackish water scares me.

anyone with experience with feeding more than one dwarf puffer in the same tank?