Dwarf Puffer vs MTS? - Page 2 - Aquarium Advice

GlitcH · 08-31-2006, 09:45 AM

My puffers are always hunting........ALWAYS............and I've never seen them eat anything that wasn't alive. They always ignore flake and frozen food. Never even seen them taste it.

JohnPaul · 08-31-2006, 01:54 PM

Yep, same experience for me GlitcH. Live bloodworms are the only thing (besides live snails) I've seen my puffers eat. The suck them up like spaghetti, very cute.

coldmachineUK · 08-31-2006, 02:47 PM

*Nods, I like the way they chew after lol. I also find my figure-8 likes brine shrimp, dont know if you're tried that?

Edit: I have a quick question too actually. I tend to feed my puffer once a day. He's only small so he gets one cube of frozen bloodworm, or one cube of frozen brineshrimp. I also throw in a snail when they're available obviously (right now my ramshorn breeding is going slowly). Every 3rd day I feed both a cube of brineshrimp and a cube of bloodworm.
I read that its advisable to feed every other day (i.e. not every day, just once every two days). Does anyone do this?

GlitcH · 08-31-2006, 03:27 PM

I add pond snails to the tank all the time........the puffers eat when they find them.

They seem very healthy.

For pics follow the second link in my sig.

JohnPaul · 08-31-2006, 05:03 PM

I feed mine some days, and some days I don't. Nothing very scientific, I suspect they end up eating around 4 days a week, give or take. Usually a few bloodworms, 4 or 5 live ones, at a feeding. Plus the occasional snail or two I throw in there and they eventually disappear as the puffer finds them.

08-31-2006, 09:45 AM	#11
GlitcH Aquarium Advice FINatic Community Mentor Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: RI Posts: 618 Images: 4	My puffers are always hunting........ALWAYS............and I've never seen them eat anything that wasn't alive. They always ignore flake and frozen food. Never even seen them taste it. __________________ 92G Corner Planted Community - 46G Bowfront -90G behind my bar - 20G Planted Shrimp Tank

08-31-2006, 03:27 PM	#14
GlitcH Aquarium Advice FINatic Community Mentor Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: RI Posts: 618 Images: 4	I add pond snails to the tank all the time........the puffers eat when they find them. They seem very healthy. For pics follow the second link in my sig. __________________ 92G Corner Planted Community - 46G Bowfront -90G behind my bar - 20G Planted Shrimp Tank

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08-31-2006, 01:54 PM	#12
JohnPaul Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 695	Yep, same experience for me GlitcH. Live bloodworms are the only thing (besides live snails) I've seen my puffers eat. The suck them up like spaghetti, very cute.

08-31-2006, 02:47 PM	#13
coldmachineUK Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK Posts: 709 Images: 6	*Nods, I like the way they chew after lol. I also find my figure-8 likes brine shrimp, dont know if you're tried that? Edit: I have a quick question too actually. I tend to feed my puffer once a day. He's only small so he gets one cube of frozen bloodworm, or one cube of frozen brineshrimp. I also throw in a snail when they're available obviously (right now my ramshorn breeding is going slowly). Every 3rd day I feed both a cube of brineshrimp and a cube of bloodworm. I read that its advisable to feed every other day (i.e. not every day, just once every two days). Does anyone do this?

08-31-2006, 05:03 PM	#15
JohnPaul Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 695	I feed mine some days, and some days I don't. Nothing very scientific, I suspect they end up eating around 4 days a week, give or take. Usually a few bloodworms, 4 or 5 live ones, at a feeding. Plus the occasional snail or two I throw in there and they eventually disappear as the puffer finds them.