The Puffer Forum

They are definitely live things, can see them moving around

I just fed my puffef a snail and a load of fast moving white dots came off of it :( From googling I *think* they are ariccardoella limacum but I dont know if they are harmful to my fish or if theres anything I can do? Also does this happen because of poor conditions (should I avoid snails from that ...

Okay awesome I will just keep going then Thank you!

I didnt even think to do that! Do you think the meds will work the way I did it? I dont know for sure he even has worms but I recently got him and his stomach was looking a bit "pulled in" so thought I should worm him.

Oh wow, that's such a good idea, cant believe I didn't think of using a sieve!! Thanks, am going to order one now

So I just got some tank water into a beaker, put the right amount of Kusuri in and an earthworm mixed it all up, left it for a few mins and then put it in the tank. From other threads I've read, after 10-15 mins sometimes people see white worms coming out of the fish (grim) does this actually happen...

Thank you!

Wow he's gorgeous! I want him! The whole black belly thing...doesn't always mean he is stressed. They do it for whatever reason they like, camouflage, excitement, hunger, sleeping....whatever. Now, if he is super dark, laying in the corner of a tank all balled up...then you've got a problem. Thank ...

Your LFS knows too little about puffers and feeding them. One snail a month is absurd, completely meaningless. Buffers have incisor plates at the front of their mouths, fused into four plate. Then they have pharyngeal teeth at the back of the mouth to continue grinding the snails. Broken bits of sn...

Thanks for your replies! I just set up a 5 gallon bucket outside for breeding snails. Don't do it! Don't do it! 5 gallons is too small to keep up with the pollution of snails. You'll just end up with dead snails and planaria. I am thinking of getting a 45l under bed storage box with a slidey lid and...

adamsmx34 wrote:It's okay to feed your puffer frozen blood worms many things I've read include that in their diet.

Yeah I know that, I was meaning the 1 snail a month as a treat part, sorry for not explaining well

Thanks a lot Arny!

I realise this is a super dumb question, but I gotta ask! I got some little ramshorn snails and put a couple in my puffers tank - he just crunched them and ate the whole thing. I was under the impression he would spit out the shell - is it dangerous that he ate the whole thing? Did I just give snail...