Feeding

[Ayalas]

So I bought Opie a variety of foods now, including, frozen oysters on a half shell, blood worms, earth worms, and freeze dried jumbo crill. I’m a little nervous on feeding him the blood worms- mostly because they remind me of intestinal type parasites lol. Should I rinse them before I feed them to him? Thanks! He loves the earthworms so far and tomorrow I think I’ll try the oyster after I let it thaw out for a bit. I hope he can bite into it well, I’ve only seen his teeth once and they aren’t that big.

[DMD123]

Sounds like you are going down the right path to give him a variety of foods. It would be a good idea to also get a liquid vitamin like Boyd's to soak food in. Also if you have not got any feeding tongs yet, it would be a good idea. Hand feeding a puffer is not a good idea. I end up taking the meat out of the shell but it is a good way for them to scrape the meat out to keep their teeth in check.

[Welch4]

+1 to the feeding tongs. Its good to use the as early as possible. This will allow your puff to disassociate your yours as food. If you hand feed its likely to get nipped when doing maintenance.