are my dwarf puffers sick?

Maxx · Post by **Maxx** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:08 pm

My lfs stock packets of brine shrimp at 99p its great! might try my hand at breeding them

pallen81 · Post by **pallen81** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:29 pm

Maxx wrote:My lfs stock packets of brine shrimp at 99p its great! might try my hand at breeding them

I might be stupid, bare with me... what does 99p mean? 99 cents? are these live brine shrimp or frozen ones?

confused....

Maxx · Post by **Maxx** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:45 pm

It's 99 pence lol I'm from England

There live and in tubes of about 100. They look just like seamonkeys!

pallen81 · Post by **pallen81** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:01 pm

Maxx wrote:It's 99 pence lol I'm from England There live and in tubes of about 100. They look just like seamonkeys!

oh, I never heard of pence. anyway. i wish i could find that. that's awesome.

Maxx · Post by **Maxx** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:09 pm

Yea it's cool, that makes out at about 49 cents a packet! Puffers love chasing them around sucking them up!

Post by **Hilly** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:05 pm

As food Brine Shrimp aren't very good, they have very little nutritional value for a puffer as food.

pallen81 · Post by **pallen81** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:34 pm

Okay, an update.

SOOOO... I found a place that has live brine shrimp. I fed them to my puffers and as far as I could tell. They didn't bite. I haven't actually seen my puffers eat now in well over a week. Yet, they still have little bellies, so they must be eating a little something...

other then blackworms and brine shrimp? they don't eat much else.

my water chemistry is still good and stable for the last few months. they just don't want to eat anymore or something.

newtotropical · Post by **newtotropical** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:06 am

Its a bit worrying that you say you change filters each month. You could be in a mini cycle. What are your water stats?!

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