Getting my puffer to eat "dead" food

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Getting my puffer to eat "dead" food

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I just got a puffer from someone- butttt, he says he can only get the puffer to eat live food.

He fed it crays, snails... and feeder gf. :(

I do NOT want to feed it feeders... EVER! None of my fish will ever get feeders.

I can't get crays in my area (so I'm ordering some self cloning) and no one has snails (so I have to order them too).

I want to get him to eat crab legs, clams, shrimp etc....

Whats the best way to switch him to non moving/live food?
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Re: Getting my puffer to eat "dead" food

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Welcome to The Puffer Forum. I see you have your new guy in a quarantine tank, good move. Below you will find a link that will be helpful on getting your puffer to eat prepared foods.


library/feeding/problems-feeding-your-puffer/
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Re: Getting my puffer to eat "dead" food

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There's 2 articles like that in the library.
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Post by FADE2BLACK_1973 »

Frozen krill, raw frozen oysters without any perservitives, live red clawed crabs from PetSmart or any other petshop that sells them, and live night crawlers is what I feed to my Fahaka. He never turns any of those down.
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Re: Getting my puffer to eat "dead" food

Post by mshill90 »

I bought some Cherry stone clams, cracked it open, and boy did he love it!

I don't think I am going to have an issue with him eating.. I just think the previous owner was too lazy to find him better things to feed.

I got a vid of it too!
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Re: Getting my puffer to eat "dead" food

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put the video up! haha
i just started feeding my guy clams to.. he loves em
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Re: Getting my puffer to eat "dead" food

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but definitely check out that article in the library
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