blue dot puffer? - Aquarium Advice

jester · 10-18-2003, 04:48 PM

I want to get a blue dot puffer is there any chance i can have shrimp or crabs and snails or will he eat them for sure i really like him but i like shrimp 2 well let me know please thanks Jester

e-cat · 10-18-2003, 04:49 PM

chances are he will eat them

jester · 10-18-2003, 05:11 PM

even the snails?

jamal-188 · 10-18-2003, 05:18 PM

I think he will pretty much eat anything he can. I have one that's very small in my Q tank, I'll see what he is able to eat when I put my fish back in the main tank w/ my crabs/snails etc.

e-cat · 10-18-2003, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by jester

even the snails?

even the snails, they use there beak like teeth too crush the shells of crustations.

jester · 10-18-2003, 05:21 PM

cool let me know what happens and thanks a really want one but i like crabs snails and shrimp so i dont want him eatting them the guy at the fish store said he wont if you feed him right well anyways let me know please

e-cat · 10-18-2003, 05:32 PM

it doesnt matter how well you feed a puffer there like a trigger fish and will take pleasure in killing all the snails,crabs and hermits you put in there.

jester · 10-18-2003, 06:12 PM

that sucks so how do you clean a tank with puffers and triggers in them

e-cat · 10-18-2003, 06:45 PM

i clean the algae with a algae scrubber and a razor blade (watch your hands, my trigger bit me the other day) and when i fed them i make sure too get every piece of uneaten food as possible, i do put hermit crabs into my tank, just the blue leged hermit cause there cheap and the clean up stuff until they get picked off, iv noticed that they come out at night when the trigger is in his cave and they hide in the rock work during the day.

jester · 10-18-2003, 11:05 PM

that sounds kind of mean man

10-18-2003, 04:48 PM	#1
jester Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 391 Images: 8	blue dot puffer? I want to get a blue dot puffer is there any chance i can have shrimp or crabs and snails or will he eat them for sure i really like him but i like shrimp 2 well let me know please thanks Jester __________________ my tank for now is a 60g with a little live sand and then just play sand I got 80 pounds of live rock now I have a wet dry with no bio balls and a protein skimmer and [acronym="Ultra Violet"]uv[/acronym] steralizer I have power compacts 260 watts I have 1 damsels 1yellow tang 1 flame angel one yellow strip maroon clownfishand and a feather duster and a bulb anemones that the clown lives in and colony polops and some kenya tree corals and 2 fire shrimp snails and hermit crabs and some other crabs i just got a 40g with like 6 inches of live sand and it is loaded with corals and inverts it was given to me by a friend she had it for 3 years there is a brain coral wellsophyllia and a platygyra brain worm coral green striped mushrooms and red mushrooms yellow colony polyp and button polyp and some type of hard coral not sure what it is also alot of kenya tree oh ya and 2 giant star fish

10-18-2003, 05:11 PM	#3
jester Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 391 Images: 8	even the snails? __________________ my tank for now is a 60g with a little live sand and then just play sand I got 80 pounds of live rock now I have a wet dry with no bio balls and a protein skimmer and [acronym="Ultra Violet"]uv[/acronym] steralizer I have power compacts 260 watts I have 1 damsels 1yellow tang 1 flame angel one yellow strip maroon clownfishand and a feather duster and a bulb anemones that the clown lives in and colony polops and some kenya tree corals and 2 fire shrimp snails and hermit crabs and some other crabs i just got a 40g with like 6 inches of live sand and it is loaded with corals and inverts it was given to me by a friend she had it for 3 years there is a brain coral wellsophyllia and a platygyra brain worm coral green striped mushrooms and red mushrooms yellow colony polyp and button polyp and some type of hard coral not sure what it is also alot of kenya tree oh ya and 2 giant star fish

10-18-2003, 05:21 PM	#6
jester Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 391 Images: 8	cool let me know what happens and thanks a really want one but i like crabs snails and shrimp so i dont want him eatting them the guy at the fish store said he wont if you feed him right well anyways let me know please __________________ my tank for now is a 60g with a little live sand and then just play sand I got 80 pounds of live rock now I have a wet dry with no bio balls and a protein skimmer and [acronym="Ultra Violet"]uv[/acronym] steralizer I have power compacts 260 watts I have 1 damsels 1yellow tang 1 flame angel one yellow strip maroon clownfishand and a feather duster and a bulb anemones that the clown lives in and colony polops and some kenya tree corals and 2 fire shrimp snails and hermit crabs and some other crabs i just got a 40g with like 6 inches of live sand and it is loaded with corals and inverts it was given to me by a friend she had it for 3 years there is a brain coral wellsophyllia and a platygyra brain worm coral green striped mushrooms and red mushrooms yellow colony polyp and button polyp and some type of hard coral not sure what it is also alot of kenya tree oh ya and 2 giant star fish

10-18-2003, 06:12 PM	#8
jester Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 391 Images: 8	that sucks so how do you clean a tank with puffers and triggers in them __________________ my tank for now is a 60g with a little live sand and then just play sand I got 80 pounds of live rock now I have a wet dry with no bio balls and a protein skimmer and [acronym="Ultra Violet"]uv[/acronym] steralizer I have power compacts 260 watts I have 1 damsels 1yellow tang 1 flame angel one yellow strip maroon clownfishand and a feather duster and a bulb anemones that the clown lives in and colony polops and some kenya tree corals and 2 fire shrimp snails and hermit crabs and some other crabs i just got a 40g with like 6 inches of live sand and it is loaded with corals and inverts it was given to me by a friend she had it for 3 years there is a brain coral wellsophyllia and a platygyra brain worm coral green striped mushrooms and red mushrooms yellow colony polyp and button polyp and some type of hard coral not sure what it is also alot of kenya tree oh ya and 2 giant star fish

10-18-2003, 11:05 PM	#10
jester Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 391 Images: 8	that sounds kind of mean man __________________ my tank for now is a 60g with a little live sand and then just play sand I got 80 pounds of live rock now I have a wet dry with no bio balls and a protein skimmer and [acronym="Ultra Violet"]uv[/acronym] steralizer I have power compacts 260 watts I have 1 damsels 1yellow tang 1 flame angel one yellow strip maroon clownfishand and a feather duster and a bulb anemones that the clown lives in and colony polops and some kenya tree corals and 2 fire shrimp snails and hermit crabs and some other crabs i just got a 40g with like 6 inches of live sand and it is loaded with corals and inverts it was given to me by a friend she had it for 3 years there is a brain coral wellsophyllia and a platygyra brain worm coral green striped mushrooms and red mushrooms yellow colony polyp and button polyp and some type of hard coral not sure what it is also alot of kenya tree oh ya and 2 giant star fish

10-18-2003, 04:49 PM	#2
e-cat Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba Posts: 1,091	chances are he will eat them

10-18-2003, 05:18 PM	#4
jamal-188 Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: PA Posts: 1,809 Images: 9	I think he will pretty much eat anything he can. I have one that's very small in my Q tank, I'll see what he is able to eat when I put my fish back in the main tank w/ my crabs/snails etc.

10-18-2003, 05:32 PM	#7
e-cat Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba Posts: 1,091	it doesnt matter how well you feed a puffer there like a trigger fish and will take pleasure in killing all the snails,crabs and hermits you put in there.

10-18-2003, 06:45 PM	#9
e-cat Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba Posts: 1,091	i clean the algae with a algae scrubber and a razor blade (watch your hands, my trigger bit me the other day) and when i fed them i make sure too get every piece of uneaten food as possible, i do put hermit crabs into my tank, just the blue leged hermit cause there cheap and the clean up stuff until they get picked off, iv noticed that they come out at night when the trigger is in his cave and they hide in the rock work during the day.

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