My two are in the tank they are in for right now. For the last 2 days they've only had the option of goldfish flakes for food. The article link I was given (which was a great article... thank you) says this:
Foods for smaller puffers are frozen/freeze-dried krill/plankton, gut-loaded ghost shrimp, glass worms, crickets, worms and small snails (the size of their eye). Snails are an essential food to a puffer’s diet, especially when small.
Can I get any of these things at Walmart? or do I need to go to a PetCo/Petstore?
If the answer is Petco is there anything I can do to feed them til then?
Your GSPs will do fine eating a lot of the other foods too. They seem big enough..about the size of mine really. I feed him a lot of the items listed in the article. Most of them you can get from the grocery (frozen shrimp,mussels, ect) you would be more apt to find your bloodworms/blackworms/krill/ at a pet store/LFS. You can just give him enough to fill him up, he'll be able to bite off chunks of larger shrimp. I thaw mine out in vitamin water (vita-chem). You can find night crawlers at bait shops.
My Puffers: Puffers I have kept: T lineatus T miurus A modestus T biocellatus C valentini C coranata C papuan C lorteti DPs suvattii burrfish T niphobles
Let us know what you find that they like. Try soaking their food in crushed garlic to enhance flavor/appetite, if they turn their snout up at what you offer them.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
You should be feeding them once a day (until their bellies are nice and round) skipping one day a week.