Food for my new puffs

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Food for my new puffs

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Hey, my two dwarf puffers are coming in tuesday. The dwarf that i currently have is very fond of snails. ive tried to breed snails but that did not work well. they were red small snails that i got from the lfs. how can i breed snails? what would you guys recommend?
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Check out this article by RTR:

Breeding Snails (this is not a Joke) …for Keepers of Puffers and Other Molluscivores
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thanks, i did a search of the website but didnt catch that article.
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Is there a way to teach my puffers to eat ghost shrimp? he doesnt go for them!
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Be grateful for having an available scavenger to clean up after a messy puffer. That does seem to another individual thing with puffers, and many DPs do coexist well with shrimp, where others eat them immediately. Mine do not eat shrimp eather - yet.
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