Feeding
- Pufferpunk
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T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
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Re: Feeding
My spoiled DPs will only eat live blackworms.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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- Arny
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Re: Feeding
They can sometimes take upto week to settle in.
- bertie 83
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Loaches, Clown loaches ,Eels, various shrimp, tangs,wrasses, damsels, chromis - Location (country): Brighton, England
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Re: Feeding
Give them time to settle, they will soon be pigging out
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
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- Mentor
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Re: Feeding
My DPs would eat live blackworms and ramshorn snails. The blackworms were taken best from the perforated cone feeders, which give them time to examine each live worm as it slips through the holes/mesh of the cones, and I kept small reptile water dishes on the substrate to catch the missed worms - the more shy feeders would snare worms from the dish.
Where's the fish? - Neptune
Re: Feeding
Bought some live bloodworms today ( yuk) one definitely likes them, they seem a bit daft, they look at them for ages and either swim off, or 1 ate 2! How many should I give them?
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- Green Spotted Puffer
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6 dwarf puffers - Location (country): La Belle Province
Re: Feeding
Where do you find live blackworms, bloodworms or daphnia??
None of my LFS have them.
None of my LFS have them.
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But puffers are a girl`s best friend.
Re: Feeding
I just got mine from my local pet shop. Do ebay sell them? Master of puffers:how many puffers have you got!
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- Mentor
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Re: Feeding
Unfortunately, live food availability varies tremendously from area to area, particularly between countries. Obviously live California blackworms are not going to readily and inexpensively available in the UK or continental Europe as they are in much of the US. But other foods - more local to the region - should be offered.
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- Pufferpunk
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Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
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2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
- Location: Chicago
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Re: Feeding
When I move out to SC, I'm 99.999% sure, I'm gonna have to mail order them. Luckily, i have enough fish that eat them to order 1lb.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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- Green Spotted Puffer
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6 dwarf puffers - Location (country): La Belle Province
Re: Feeding
Trouty wrote:I just got mine from my local pet shop. Do ebay sell them? Master of puffers:how many puffers have you got!
A quick mental count gives me 25 little darlings, I neeed to update my list and start taking pictures of them.. I also have several more on order. I just may ghave an obessiion with them.
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But puffers are a girl`s best friend.
But puffers are a girl`s best friend.
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- Green Spotted Puffer
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fahaka
6 dwarf puffers - Location (country): La Belle Province
Re: Feeding
Pufferpunk wrote:When I move out to SC, I'm 99.999% sure, I'm gonna have to mail order them. Luckily, i have enough fish that eat them to order 1lb.
Sounds like that's the kind of thing I'm going to have to do as well.
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But puffers are a girl`s best friend.
But puffers are a girl`s best friend.
Re: Feeding
All in separate tanks? Or do you keep some together? On second thoughts don't tell me, you could be a bad influence!