are ceylons carnivores?

hadla · Post by **hadla** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:46 pm

or do you think my little girl might like some kind of vegetable or plant? should i try getting snails onto a romaine lettuce leaf then letting her pick them off of it?

Agnate · Post by **Agnate** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:16 pm

Some puffers like peas every now and then. Try tossing in a frozen pea (let it thaw a bit first) and see if she'll eat it. If she doesn't, just take it out and try another pea the next day. Eventually she'll take a bite, and if she eats it, then voila!

StormySkiez · Post by **StormySkiez** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:34 pm

My puffers chew up veggies and spit them out just as fast.

Jase · Post by **Jase** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:22 pm

mine eat... everything. I'm sure the pea will work.
or you can load your snails too, but Lettuce has little nutrition. anything else will work (whole pea, cucumber, algae wafer)

Agnate · Post by **Agnate** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:58 pm

Zucchini works, too!

yunachin · Post by **yunachin** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:18 am

Broccoli too.

Nusquam · Post by **Nusquam** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:19 am

And carrots!

hadla · Post by **hadla** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:04 am

thanks for all the suggestions! ill put a peice of cucumber in the snail jar to get a few on it then float it in her tank

manutius · Post by **manutius** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:33 am

Clooney loved peas though make sure you blanch them first to remove the shell as this is not digestible as far as I know. Gut loading shrimp and snails is a good way to get soem veg into the though if they won't take it first hand so to speak

Agnate · Post by **Agnate** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:03 am

Do F8's eat Ghost Shrimp, by chance? I'd really like to keep these guys in a breeding tank and feed them to my (hopefully-soon-to-come) future F8.

my name is mike · Post by **my name is mike** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:14 am

they sure will eat ghost shrimp -- mine took a while to realize they are food, but once he did, they were gone pretty quick --

crazedpuffer · Post by **crazedpuffer** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:06 pm

manutius wrote:Clooney loved peas though make sure you blanch them first to remove the shell as this is not digestible as far as I know. Gut loading shrimp and snails is a good way to get soem veg into the though if they won't take it first hand so to speak

Shelby spits out the shell, but that could only be because she's still little.

hadla · Post by **hadla** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:41 am

manutius wrote:Clooney loved peas though make sure you blanch them first to remove the shell as this is not digestible as far as I know.

i already knew that about peas cause i had used those for my gouramis a few years ago

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