Since feeding him quite alot of earthworms the past few days (which he is absolutely loving), I thought I would feed shrimp tonight. I didn't expect BeeBoo to eat it because he hasn't shown any interest in eating it in over a week or more. So I basically put it in for the other puffers that are in that tank, and surprise, surprise! BeeBoo came up and gobbled a bunch of shrimp down. I thought maybe once he realised what it was that he would spit it out, but he didn't. In fact, he ate even more when I put more in the tank.
I've been so happy this week with him eating snails, earthworms and now the shrimp. He's been having brown poops too, so that's good to see as well. I am not going to fool myself into thinking that he's over the IP issue, but at least things are improving somewhat. I still need to find the Jungle fizz tabs because I've decided that I am going to use them to put into his food and maybe I can prevent the death of my special snails and the aquatic crab that's in that tank. I also have more of the fizz tabs on order from America, but with Christmas and Royal Mail being less than good at what they do, I figure it will be a long time before they are here. I know I have some of the fizz tabs in this house, just a matter of finding them. And that will be my next project, to soak some of his food in the Jungle tabs and then see if I can get him to eat the saturated food. But I think we're definitely going in the right direction as he's looking good and his activity level is increasing as well. Tonight, as I was cutting up the shrimp on the plate in front of the tank, I could see him positioning himself so that he could see what I was doing, and he seemed to get very excited by it as well. That's the sort of puffer stuff I enjoy!
So things are looking up!
