Human quality food?

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schmiggle
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Human quality food?

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I've been sort of thinking of getting one of the smallish, ambush-y pufferfish (miurus, suvattii, baileyi), and I've done a fair amount of research about requirements. However, one thing that came up in a few places was that, once you convince them to go off of live food (which is apparently generally a good idea?), they need "human-quality" fish. Is this true, and what precisely does this mean? Could I feed my puffer fish canned tuna? Or a frozen fish fillet?

The rest of feeding seemed pretty straightforward--occasional shrimp, bloodworms, etc. Am I missing something there?
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Re: Human quality food?

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Definitely not tuna, it'll make a mess. Frozen fish are fine, I also feed mine shrimp & scallops. I defrost in water treated with Vita-chem.
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Re: Human quality food?

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I feed mine a mix diet, uncooked whole shrimp (sold in big bags for humans in the local supermarket), bloodworm, white shrimp, tubiflex, worms, apples snails (I breed)
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