Hi!
My dwarf puffer has been in my tank since early Sunday, so about two days now. During the first hour, he/she already began devouring my bladder snails (came with my plants -- my tank is newly cycled).
Most of those bladder snails appear to be gone. I was given a bunch of Malaysian trumpet snails to try and provide a reproducing food source (For free by the LFS that sold me the puffer -- the guy working there said the trumpet snails are almost exclusively what their puffers ate).
I can see the trumpet snails coming out at night like they normally do, but my puffer always seems to hide at night. Do puffers normally hunt during the night? I want to make sure my little guy isn't starving..
Dwarf Puffer - MTS Feeding
- Pufferpunk
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Re: Dwarf Puffer - MTS Feeding
MTS's shells are very hard & your puffer won't be eating them. they are good for cleaning up detritus & keeping the substrate cleaner.
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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Re: Dwarf Puffer - MTS Feeding
Dwarf puffers don't really eat the shell of other snails though, do they? I've always seen them go for the "foot" of the snail -- would MTS not be eaten this way as well?Pufferpunk wrote:MTS's shells are very hard & your puffer won't be eating them. they are good for cleaning up detritus & keeping the substrate cleaner.
- Pufferpunk
- Queen Admin
- Posts: 32776
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
- Gender: Female
- My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles - Location (country): USA, Greenville, SC
- Location: Chicago
- Contact:
Re: Dwarf Puffer - MTS Feeding
They will, if they dare to come out during the day.
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!"