Puffer - fussy eater.

[Lilmermaid1215]

My dwarf puffer wont touch his bloodworms, they are just dead bloodworms in a nutrient gel..not freeze dried or alive or frozen...

But the snails he eats eats the blood worms...so eventually the nutrients would get to him from the blood worms right??

Also is it a big deal that he is only eating the snails, and nothing else?? Hes not really crushing them either but sucking them out of the shell.

 

[timbo_ska]

Thats fine, what sort of a puffer is he? if you can try every sort of food u can get your hands on, frozen works best i heard but dont forget to let it defrost in say a cup of tank water first!

 

[jread]

My dwarf puffer wont touch his bloodworms, they are just dead bloodworms in a nutrient gel..not freeze dried or alive or frozen...

But the snails he eats eats the blood worms...so eventually the nutrients would get to him from the blood worms right??

Also is it a big deal that he is only eating the snails, and nothing else?? Hes not really crushing them either but sucking them out of the shell.

Mine will only eat frozen bloodworms and snails. They LOVE frozen bloodworms actually.... they'll bite my fingers when I'm trying to feed the worms to them.. lol.

I'm still not convinced that dwarf puffers need snails for wearing their teeth. They are too small to crush ANY shells in my opinion. I've only seen them pull the snails out without touching the shell.

 

[Pufferpack]

Although they don't have the prolific tooth growth of the South American puffers, they will still require something to wear away their teet, or dentistry eventually (maybe every year or two as opposed to every 4-6 months with S/A's). Try putting a med. sized trap door snail into the tank and check on it after a week, odds are the shell will show some significant chew marks.

 

[Pufferpack]

Although they don't have the prolific tooth growth of the South American puffers, they will still require somet

 

[Lilmermaid1215]

Although they don't have the prolific tooth growth of the South American puffers, they will still require something to wear away their teet, or dentistry eventually (maybe every year or two as opposed to every 4-6 months with S/A's). Try putting a med. sized trap door snail into the tank and check on it after a week, odds are the shell will show some significant chew marks.

what is a trap door snail???

 

[Dorkhedeos]

Hey, what about escargo or something?

 

[KingKuba]

so anyone breed snails for their puffers?

how would you do that, i know nothing about snails.

 

[Lilmermaid1215]

Would escargo or some kind of fish eggs be suitable to feed them or like fish bait eggs??


My pond snails have bred like mad in some of my other tanks, and I just scoop them out and drop them into my puffer who quickly finds them and sucks them right out of the shell.

I didnt plan on my tank having snails, but I think I brought them in from a few java moss bunchs I bought from the fish store..

You could go to the fish store and ask for a few snails, they might give them to you for free, just ask for the "pest" snails...Or maybe they'll charge a few bucks...Dont know..

I had read that you should use lettuce to feed snails, but mine eat bloodworms and fish food..I also have green, and brown algae growing in the tank that they have decided to make their home.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

You dont really breed snails, you just put some in a tank with food, and let them do the work

 

[KingKuba]

You dont really breed snails, you just put some in a tank with food, and let them do the work

so they'll just mulitiply?

I planning on getting one or two snails for the heck of it. see if my puffer likes them.

 

[Opcn]

They will not breed with puffers around because they will eaten. and My puffer really sucks the snails out. I love watching him pull out the fighters the cheeks blow out and then get sucked back in. and he won't touch anything in a nutrent rich gel in fact Iv stoped feeding it to my fish period because it is so untasty it just heads to the filter and makes amonia. Go for the frozen they last along time and are very nutricious.

Opcn