How to deal with picky Amazon puffer?

[pufferian]

HI all, 2 of my Amazon puffers are being EXTREMELY picky about what I fed them. I tried bloodworms, mysis shrimps, cooked shrimps, snails, clams... And they showed no interest on them at all...
They only like blackworms...

However I don't have access to blackworms all the time and they are getting skinnier and skinnier... What else can I try?

[Hilly]

Krill, Earthworms.

[LilGreenPuffer]

Try soaking their food in garlic. You can use a product like Garlic Extreme, or you could mash up cloves of fresh garlic and strain out the juice with a coffee filter paper.

Oh, and for future reference, avoid cooked foods. It's hard for them to digest.

[pufferian]

Thanks I'll give garlic a try. Re cooked food, I heard that I shouldn't be feeding them raw food ? So if I wanted to feed them seafood like shrimps, clams, mussles, etc, do I have to feed live ones?

For worms.. Do I just dump the whole worm in or do I have to chop it into pieces...?

[J-P]

not live but not cooked either ... frozen store raw stuff

[Hilly]

Freshly frozen food is fine.
With the worm you could chop or put it in live, if theyre being picky I would try live first.

[pufferian]

Freshly frozen food is fine.
With the worm you could chop or put it in live, if theyre being picky I would try live first.

I gave frozen shrimp a try last night. And wow they were more interested in that comparing to cook ones.

Just double checking, red wriggler worms are also okay right?

[Hilly]

Cant see why not its still an earthworm.

[Nick]

Wigglers are a perfectly good, fast reproducing earthworm for fish that can't handle nightcrawlers at all, and have trouble with trout and panfish small fish worms.