The Puffer Forum

No Octomom! I have 3 and its plenty.

I was looking at fiddler crabs for my tank but they need more than 5 gallons and they'd end up being a meal. More than that, they need to be able to get to the surface.

What cleaners could you put with a Valentini? They'd need to not have corals, right, cuz they'd eat them? (I"m just trying to picture a cook set up! hehe)

NO.They will eat Squirt .
Get some Amano or ghosties

For a valentini,maybe a coral bandit?
I never kept a valentini

Sponge bob wrote:NO.They will eat Squirt .
Get some Amano or ghosties

For a valentini,maybe a coral bandit?
I never kept a valentini

I wondered about that. Ah well. Just not much can live in a 5-gal. Squirt seems really happy. I need to feed him before bed, too. He comes to the side and says "hi" - well more like "Hey- what's up? I mean, got food? I mean, I love you- got food?"

Awww.
Mine do the same

Can you gut-load your own brine shrimp? Buy something they'd eat and let them eat for a bit before putting a few into the tank? I know they're only good for a snack otherwise. Maybe hunting skill practice.

Maybe, I haven't fed mine brine shrimp yet, with mine I try and get it in the java moss or in the current.

Get the food in the java moss or current, you mean?

I just wanted to give him something fast and swimming to hunt and at least have the shrimp nutritional.

If you're hatching your own, just feed them to the puffer quickly, and they'll still have their egg sacs attached, which are very nutritious.

mrgreen wrote:No Octomom! I have 3 and its plenty.

I was looking at fiddler crabs for my tank but they need more than 5 gallons and they'd end up being a meal. More than that, they need to be able to get to the surface.

What cleaners could you put with a Valentini? They'd need to not have corals, right, cuz they'd eat them? (I"m just trying to picture a cook set up! hehe)

weird as this sounds.. I have a f crab in with my 3 gsps and 1 f8 and they dont bother with him at all.. but I put a big cray fish in with them and it was killed and eatin in like ten minutes!! guess it depends on the puffers

Well I went to feed him and he didn't eat. I put the usual number of worms in and he just dug into the rocks on the bottom a bit, completely ignored any worms and then I guess he'd had enough of me willing him to eat because he went and hid in the plant behind the big rock/around the filter intake. *shrug* Is he sick or just pouting??

Probably just pouting. Don't stress.

My 11-year-old pouts, gets teary-eyed, criticises, runs and hides.... Guess I have an adolescent fish.

Well I went to feed him and he didn't eat. I put the usual number of worms in and he just dug into the rocks on the bottom a bit, completely ignored any worms and then I guess he'd had enough of me willing him to eat because he went and hid in the plant behind the big rock/around the filter intake. *shrug* Is he sick or just pouting??

mrgreen wrote:My 11-year-old pouts, gets teary-eyed, criticises, runs and hides.... Guess I have an adolescent fish.

You forgot the eye-rolling.

I have a grand saved for a 120 setup,but have to wait for the house to sell first
Could be months,could be a year,and I'm constantly teased with black tangs,and all those other sweet tangs I see swimming around.