My puffer's teeth are, to my eyeball, getting pretty long, it can eat fine but sometimes when eating the skin on the shrimp or fish I feed him stays stuck on the tooth. So since I don't want to manually cut them if I can help it, I feed him snails, but it figured out how to suck them out instead on breaking them.
Is there other foods I can serve him that will require him to break down??? I also got some mussels, but I don't think it will help much cause he just needs to scrape it and not bite...
Figure 8's teeth are starting to be long...
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Re: Figure 8's teeth are starting to be long...
If they are already too long, you have to cut them manually. No amount of crunchy foods will wear them down. Crunchy diet is to prevent them from growing long.
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