BB Pea Puffer not eating

[stevenht]

I just got him in a 5.5 gallon for my room the other day. I've tried very small feeder snails. My LFS even held 20 ghost shrimp fry for me so they would be small enough.

Well 4 shrimp were released 4 days ago and he didn't touch them. He finally ate a snail the other day. He's even slow to eat blood worms.

He moves around fine and water is suitable for a puffer. I just never thought I would see the day where a puffer, of all fish, wouldn't be eating crustaceans. I went back and asked them what they feed them but the guy didn't know and manager was not there.

Will he eventually come around? I was just thinking since puffers are so intelligent and curious that he won't be like that forever

 

[Delapool]

Hey, did he start eating?

 

[stevenht]

He eats his blood worms but nothing else. I guess I got a picky eater

 

[stevenht]

Now my PPuffer is slamming his head against the sponge filter in the tank and he's eating the things that fly off. That's what it looks like but I imagine the little guy is just that smart, or is he mentally unstable?

 

[Potluck]

Lol, psycho picky puffer, have you tried snails they won't eat bigger ones
small snails (Physa, ramshorn snails, MTS) and frozen feed. If we speak about frozen one – favorite dwarf puffer fish food is blood worm, daphnia and brine shrimps

 

[stevenht]

He loves bloodworms. I have 4 very small ramshorn snails in there but I think he finally got to one of them. The shrimp just all died

 

[Potluck]

Remove dead food it will rot and polite the tank, with peace puffers they need very clean water

 

[stevenht]

I have removed all the dead shrimp and most of the food except the shrimp pellets I threw in this morning for the Corey's to avoid ammonia spikes

 

[nirbhao]

Wait. You have a dwarf puffer and how many cory cats in this 5.5 gallon? That's a very full tank.

 

[stevenht]

3 pygmy Corey's not regular Corey's. I have those in a 20 gallon. My pygmy Corey's are probably half to three quarters of an inch.

 

[nirbhao]

3 pygmy Corey's not regular Corey's. I have those in a 20 gallon. My pygmy Corey's are probably half to three quarters of an inch.

They won't stay that small, though.

 

[stevenht]

I think you commented on my 46 bowfront post. Those little guys are gonna go in there once it's setup and cycled in about a months time. This is hoping they don't grow like goldfish ?

 

[nirbhao]

I did! I've been commenting all over the place recently! I didn't connect the two. That's going to be a gorgeous tank.