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My GSP was not eating at first for almost a week I gave him some gost shrimp and since then you can't get him to stop eating no matter what you put in the tank. I can't find a single LFS in my area that stocks live ghost shrimp :( , I'm being very patient, he'll nip at the half clams I put in there...

Still not eating, but spends 8 hours a day chasing his reflection up and down the aquarium.

Andrew

tank pacing ... could = bored or sees his reflection = rival ... I am certainly no expert but the most common advice given is LOTS of structure in the tank. Plants broken eye lines etc ... Structure will give him something new to explore. If he/she is not expending productive engergy he/she won't b...

Well I threw a frozen half shell clam in today and he picked bits of it, but didn't completely eat it. He seems more consumed with chancing his reflection up and down the glass for what seems like ever, he'll swim up and down the side bareing his teeth. Should I give him a couple of days to get hung...

Thanks for everyone's help and ideas, I put in some snails earlier today to see if he'd eat them. I'm going to go see if I can find some ghost shrimp, and also maybe buy some fresh shrimp from the grocery store and see if he'll eat that.

J-P wrote:hah yes we new peeps heed to be shown the garden path or are easily lost!

Just don't want to miss anything! And there are a lot of people here who are well versed in Puffers I'm sure!

I want to make sure I do it right the first time, since he's such a cute little guy!

Your puffer has been eating live foods all it's young life. Did you see the article about feeding difficult puffers? Pufferpunk, Ofcourse, I read all 3 articles relating to feeding Puffers, and training them to eat with not-so-alive food, such as using the flow of the tank to make it appear live, o...

Here ya go: http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/library/category/feeding/ Pufferpunk, Thanks, I already read that, was just wondering if it was anything that I needed to worry about now, if not, when I should start to worry if I can't get him to eat with some of the tricks mentioned in the link. Th...

Well, I'm new here, obviously I've recently bought a Dogface Puffer and he seems healthy and happy, swimming around the tank constantly, he's not very big, maybe 3.5" or so. He's in a 55gal FOWLR tank with a couple of damsels and two clownfish. I just had the water tested a couple of hours ago ...