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Well, I have already made several bloopers in this new hobby. I added aquarium salt to the 14 gallon I am keeping 2 figure 8 puffers in. I know it should be a bigger tank from reading unfortunately after the fact. My puffers are an inch big at this time. I have fed them dried shrimp which they loved and have ordered some snails for them.
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You really need to get a larger tank set up. Read the articles in our library about F8s. Also, don't feed them dreid shrimp. Try giving them frozen, thawed, raw shrimp with the shell on.
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What's wrong with dried shrimp? I feed FD plankton to all my fish.
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I think it depends on the dried shrimp. Whenever I hear a new person using it, I always think of the things that are used in Thai food, and the ones I've seen have flavoring on them. =\
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Christemo wrote:I think it depends on the dried shrimp. Whenever I hear a new person using it, I always think of the things that are used in Thai food, and the ones I've seen have flavoring on them. =\
I always think of games when I hear FD shrimp
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Is anything visibly wrong with them?
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pufferfreak wrote:Is anything visibly wrong with them?
They might taste like something bad or good?
I thought coconut
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