Lighting Intensity...

[Matty P]

Do F8 puffers prefer: low, medium or high light intensity??

 

[CFC]

Fish are not really part of their natural diet but like almost any fish they will eat small fish that easily fit into their mouths, they are better off being fed what they are designed to eat though and that is shelled invertabrates bivalves and molluscs (shrimp clams and snails).Fish are not really part of their natural diet but like almost any fish they will eat small fish that easily fit into their mouths, they are better off being fed what they are designed to eat though and that is shelled invertabrates bivalves and molluscs (shrimp clams and snails).

 

[Matty P]

I have a bag of frozen cockles for my marine tank. I put some of the cockles into a bowl then fill it with boiling water until they open up. Do you do the same for Figure 8 Puffers or can they open the cockles themselves??

Cheers

Matt

 

[DarkEntity]

I usually feed my Fig8's snails. When they do get cockle, i crackit up so the fish need to prise the food from the shell

 

[Matty P]

So I should crack them then put them into the tank frozen?? BTW, some of the cockles don't open which means they are "off" I wouldn't want to give them a cockle that was "off"

 

[DarkEntity]

erm....where are you getting the cockles from?

I use the gamma ones from TMC, drop them in some hot water, then prise them open with a knife, once completely defrosted, i crack them up a little and drop them in the tank.

 

[Matty P]

Yeh mine are gamma ones from my lfs. I was told to put them in boiling water until they opened themselves. Most open anyway some take longer than others. When you put them in the boiling water little bubbles come out from inside them.

Matt

 

[DarkEntity]

ive never bothered, i prise them opeb, the fish know what to eat and what not. They have never turned down a meal yet

 

[Matty P]

erm....where are you getting the cockles from?

I use the gamma ones from TMC, drop them in some hot water, then prise them open with a knife, once completely defrosted, i crack them up a little and drop them in the tank.

How do you know they are completely defrosted?

Do you use hot or boiling water?

How much do you crack them up?

Cheers

 

[DarkEntity]

when i poke them its soft, thus defrosted lol

 

[Matty P]

lol, right ok. So you crack them enough for the puffer to get in without having to "work" too hard but not enough for them just to eat the meaty bit straight out the shell. If you get what i mean

 

[DarkEntity]

lol, right ok. So you crack them enough for the puffer to get in without having to "work" too hard but not enough for them just to eat the meaty bit straight out the shell. If you get what i mean

Yip..................

 

[Matty P]

Are the puffers likely to eat some of the shell, and if they do is this ok?

 

[DarkEntity]

Mine eat pieces of shell all the time, its quickly spat out again once the meat is off it lol

 

[Matty P]

lol, cool cheers for the help