Food success

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UncleFugu
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Food success

Post by UncleFugu »

Yay! I've had success in finding what to feed my wild caught puffs! I found out by trial and error that cut up pieces of banana prawn work. Many thanks to 'my name is mike' for his Puffer Flix movie of his baby F8 feeding on a piece of prawn - it gave me the idea.

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my name is mike
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Post by my name is mike »

hey , glad that helped -- it's an easy and kinda fun way to feed the little guys

once you get them eatting one food, i think its easier to introduce others -- mine took blood worms first and after a week or two would go for prawn, mysis, frozen krill and of course snails
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Post by Boxermom »

Yup, same way I taught my fahaka to eat stuff. Seems he was afraid of things too big, like whole frozen shrimp, but very quickly got used to eating whatever I throw in now if its cut up so its not too large.
Tina

Puffers: Auriglobus silus x1, Tetraodon travancoricus x1, Tetraodon turgidus x1, Tetraodon miurus x1, Tetraodon nigroviridis x2, Tetraodon baileyi x2, Tetraodon lineatus x1, Tetraodon palembangensis x1
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