2nd try on porcupine puffer

match55 · Post by **match55** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:27 pm

tysm stormy and edmlfc
I am gonna turn the light off for a week and try more snails and people shrimps.

match55 · Post by **match55** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:28 pm

right now she only like snails and ghost shrimps, trying to feed people shrimps, clams, and squids, but no luck.
gonna keep trying

Bonsai_girl · Post by **Bonsai_girl** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:38 pm

You're gonna have to be patient with her - give her time!

She's feeding, so it's just a case of you trying and trying until she feeds from dead food. Just be patient

Are you gut-loading the ghost shrimp?

match55 · Post by **match55** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:18 pm

if I am doing it right, I feed the shrimp with vegi flakes and those pill before I feed them to my puffy.
Today, she swim a little more.

julianchan · Post by **julianchan** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:23 pm

This thread is starting me thinking...."It takes a village to raise a puffer". Its pretty awesome.

Glad the porc is doing well! Lucky to have such a caring home. And thanks for the photos! I see a POTM in your future

match55 · Post by **match55** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:32 pm

What is POTM??

julianchan · Post by **julianchan** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:36 pm

its the Puffer Forum's Puffer of The Month competition.

match55 · Post by **match55** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:41 pm

Hehe, gonna take mor pic when she get use to my tank.

she finally take a bite on people shrimp, but the shrimp is way too big, so she swim away after the bite. XD

she is doing better today, but I saw a white dot in her fin (only one)? is that ich?

edmlfc1 · Post by **edmlfc1** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:09 am

My stars and strips and my porc use to get spots on their fins. I never figured out what it was. It was just on the fin, sometimes they would get 3-4 and they just go away. Almost like a poka a dot. If it don't look like a grain of salt it's not ich. I started soaking his food in vitamins and I never see them anymore. I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. Also try cutting the shrimp in strips, maybe your porc will eat it then. I know when I did that mine would but she would never take an actual bite out of it. Weird I know but it worked.

match55 · Post by **match55** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:23 am

ty edmlfc
the dot on my porc were gona today.
i am gonna try to cut the shrimp smaller then.

t1gerbee · Post by **t1gerbee** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:43 pm

my porc is ALOT she's more active at night.. actually she's got alot better in the last few weeks but for the three months before that she'd hide during the day and the buzz around at night..

i've made a habit of only feeding with the lights on, so she gets used to the fact that lights on = food!

Good luck with your new one, try not to over worry... you'll send yourself mad!

LuLu · Post by **LuLu** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:00 pm

I just read your whole thread she is beautiful!!!!!...I would love to have one someday!! good luck with her !!

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