The Puffer Forum

I have to call shenanigans on this post, what if any is the point? There is never a reason to feed pellets to a puffer, large or small. They probably don't taste as good as real food, there is no such thing as a puffer designed pellet so probably nutritionally inadequate, feeding time is excitement...

Puffer's dental plates are for biting/crushing, not for chewing. They do chew, but with their pharyngeal teeth - which we cannot see in the live specimen - but we can see the fines (bits of shell, etc.) they expel from their gills while chewing. If such pellets are not tiny, they will be chewed and...

Just last week i decided to try feeding my fahaka some hikari pellets but i had no hope that he would take a liking to them and have them added into his diet but i was very delighted to find out otherwise. :D I got my fahaka to eat pellets on Day 2. Day 1: he took a bite and didnt seem interested a...

i think maybe i talked too much about feeding before i got into the main point? but the main thing i trying to say in this thread is try to get the puffer to eat pellets. i am not saying they need to be feeding on pellets completly, but instead the pellets are like a suplement to them. and i stated ...

First of all, some say that puffers are really picky eaters, sometimes they will starve themselfs to death rather than eatting what you provide. This is true sometimes, but the chance it happens is not that great. Unless they are in really bad conditions, they will survive even with monthes of feedi...

it may just be the angle of that pic... it does not get skinny...just after a few days, you can just see a normal puffer with that normal stomach..just not like the very round stomach when u just feed a lot... i did ip with metro when i first got him, that's when i know he got ips, which he does not...

this guy is eating more and more... i dont do crawfish a lot, just maybe like twice a month...just to trim the teeth a little...a few crawfish is like nothing now... finishing one in a few seconds.. he is learn to be smarter too... used to going from the front against the claws...which he will get s...

thank you all for the reply...
the 210 is in my old house now, he will be just move to there for awile.
when i move in to my new house. we will be build a bigger tank if nothing goes wrong.
he has been dewormed 2 weeks ago, which i think i will maybe do another one next month or so...

i have always wanted a mbu for a long time... it is about 6 in now...and it is still in a 40 breeder until my 210 is ready for him to grow just for now...i will have a bigger tank later on when i moved.. anyway..here is a pic when it first got here less than a month ago.. very skinny...and not too a...

i am looking for a mbu puffer lately and i found 2 in my LFS.. however...one of them looks pretty healthy, and eatting pretty well and pretty active. but there is a semi-transparent poop or something hanging from his butt. its like a line..not like poop so i am thinking if this one got internal worm...