Puffer Digesting
Puffer Digesting
So my Stars and Stripes puffer is very big and likes to eat alot of food. Not the best topic to discuss but sometimes I notice he poops out whole pieces of silversides. They dont look like they get digested that well. Other times his poop look more normal and is just brownish and powdery. Is it normal for them to sometimes not be able to digest stuff? I also tried feeding him some lettuce once and two days later I saw the lettuce stuck to all my powerhead intakes , so I guess it didnt really digest at all.
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- Pufferpunk
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You are overfeeding your puffer. It can only digest so much food. The rest comes out whole. How often are you feeding what, to your puffer?
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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Thank you for the information everybody.
I think I am overfeeding him, thats gotta be it. I feed him every other day, and usually just feed him 10 or so silversides untill he shows no interest. I am going to begin feeding him small portions over spread out periods of time. With the lettuce though.. Do you ever notice it coming out whole? Same with the peas, I fed my Puffer peas when he was on an empty stomach and I still noticed them in my powerheads a few days later.
Thanks!!
I think I am overfeeding him, thats gotta be it. I feed him every other day, and usually just feed him 10 or so silversides untill he shows no interest. I am going to begin feeding him small portions over spread out periods of time. With the lettuce though.. Do you ever notice it coming out whole? Same with the peas, I fed my Puffer peas when he was on an empty stomach and I still noticed them in my powerheads a few days later.
Thanks!!
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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
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- Pufferpunk
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- 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
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I have rarely known puffers to eat peas. I'd prefer to see them eating algae waffers or better yet, gut-load ghost shrimp with them.
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!"
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Peas are also the only way to get veggies into my girl besides gut-loading her snails. She eats one quarter of a frozen Petite Pea . They are the only food besides chunks of krill, live insects, or whole frozen bloodworms and mysis shrimp that she will touch. She does kill all the duckweed in the tank by testing it for edibility, but always spits it out.
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20-gal feeder breeder (platties and snails)
75-gal West African Lungfish + snails
Other pets: Pacific parrotlet, Italian Greyhound, lots of plants