hi i am new to the puffer world and just had one quick question.
i know you are suppost to feed the puffers snails to file their teeth down, i live out of town and dont go in much so i was wondering how long i can go before their teeth get to long.
like would one snail a month be enough for its teeth?
thanks
a little feeding help for my new figure 8 puffer
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Re: a little feeding help for my new figure 8 puffer
Why not buy frozen foods with shells on like shrimp, cockles and mussels and compliment with snails whenever you can?kevinjgray88 wrote:hi i am new to the puffer world and just had one quick question.
i know you are suppost to feed the puffers snails to file their teeth down, i live out of town and dont go in much so i was wondering how long i can go before their teeth get to long.
like would one snail a month be enough for its teeth?
thanks
F8's don't tend to suffer as much as other puffers but I feed mine food with shells on about 3 times a week. I only used to do it once a week but I noticed the teeth geeting longer.
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Re: a little feeding help for my new figure 8 puffer
depending on how far you want to go with this you could get a small say 3 gal tank with a small sponge filter and small heater and keep/breed the snails to feed him, I set one up a few weeks ago and it cost me about £25 for the lot, you can get your snails off ebay cheap too, i brought 20 of a seller for £3.50p. easy to look after too, just give them fruit & veg with the odd bit of flaked fish food.
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Re: a little feeding help for my new figure 8 puffer
so a frozen clam or something with a shell? how big because he is only about 1.5" and do i throw it in frozen or should i thaw it firstIliveinazoo wrote:Why not buy frozen foods with shells on like shrimp, cockles and mussels and compliment with snails whenever you can?kevinjgray88 wrote:hi i am new to the puffer world and just had one quick question.
i know you are suppost to feed the puffers snails to file their teeth down, i live out of town and dont go in much so i was wondering how long i can go before their teeth get to long.
like would one snail a month be enough for its teeth?
thanks
F8's don't tend to suffer as much as other puffers but I feed mine food with shells on about 3 times a week. I only used to do it once a week but I noticed the teeth geeting longer.
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Re: a little feeding help for my new figure 8 puffer
Yeah that will work but you do have to thaw it out. LilGreenPuffer got some good tips on feeding on the 1/2 shell which will make them grind their teeth on it, I think that she smears garlic on the shell or something.kevinjgray88 wrote:so a frozen clam or something with a shell? how big because he is only about 1.5" and do i throw it in frozen or should i thaw it firstIliveinazoo wrote:Why not buy frozen foods with shells on like shrimp, cockles and mussels and compliment with snails whenever you can?kevinjgray88 wrote:hi i am new to the puffer world and just had one quick question.
i know you are suppost to feed the puffers snails to file their teeth down, i live out of town and dont go in much so i was wondering how long i can go before their teeth get to long.
like would one snail a month be enough for its teeth?
thanks
F8's don't tend to suffer as much as other puffers but I feed mine food with shells on about 3 times a week. I only used to do it once a week but I noticed the teeth geeting longer.
They don't need much, at the moment he probably only needs about five millimetres square, but try it out first - once their belly is round they've had enough
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Re: a little feeding help for my new figure 8 puffer
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Re: a little feeding help for my new figure 8 puffer
Lots of folks here feed that way.
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