Figure 8's teeth are starting to be long...

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Ti_CLaD
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Figure 8's teeth are starting to be long...

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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...
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Re: Figure 8's teeth are starting to be long...

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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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