The Puffer Forum

Yup, Piggy can change colour in a matter of seconds, depending on what he's up to. That is one beautiful puffer btw

Thank you!

No need to pause at 1.010, just keep going at 0.002 per week until you hit your desired sg. Puffers can handle being drip acclimated from f/w to marine conditions in a matter of hours so don't worry, it's the tanks bacteria that can't handle fast swings in sg

Okay awesome I will just keep going then Thank you!

How would one lean or wean off puffers on certain foods? I bought some Krail (frozen) and they don't seem to care much for it. They are eating blood worms , shrimp(raw with shells) and snails.

Try garlic soaking foods, krill should be a treat only

I've tried feeding them krill only twice and both times they spit the food back out after a bite. However they love blood worms shrimp and snails!

Good staple foods there. Perhaps try mysis, mussel and cockle just to mix it up

How often should their diet be of a different variety? I feed them shrimp (2x) snails (2x) and bloodworms (2x) and don't feed them on Sunday. I usually do a rotation shrimp worms snails worms snails shrimp

Try adding freeze-dried plankton & mysis shrimp to the mix. I bet they'd love to tear into a mussel, clam or oyster, occasionally.

The LFS should carry all of this correct? And mussel where shall I purchase them?

Start haunting the produce dept of your grocery stores.

Hahaha, the mussles would need to be fairly small for them to eat it as they are juveniles correct?

You just crack them open & let them go at it. Mussels are pretty small anyway.

Alrighty thanks for the abundance of information