The Puffer Forum

Yes live red cherry shrimp.

They have been bred in a friends tank and therefore should be ok from a parasite point of view..?

No, they're fine but I'm not sure they have any more nutrition than ghost shrimp (basically none), so it would be best to gut-load them before feeding out.

NJD,

Thanks for the updates.
I'm new to the medium/larger puffers.

This takes time, but I did learn that tearing bits of shrimp into small chunks about the size of the eyeball of most of my puffers keeps it clean.
The big whole pieces of thawed shrimp make messes.

In my opinion, puffers chew and spit out way too much large meaty things and don't go after leftover bits that much ever.
The small chunks stay in their mouth and make very little mess (yay).

I'm searching for the perfect tank mates as food reserve and also a good cleaner.
Regular otos that eat algae do wonders on my schoutedeni puffer tanks for algae build up, but I either need to stock a crud ton of ghost shrimp or something that eats the food bits quicker than snails and ghost shrimp to gain some progress.

6 inch container next to the palembangensis.

Ambush predators/lurkers such as the palembang, are basically piscivores, although we usually hesitate to feed them fish as their main staple. so with that in mind, anything you add to his tank is going to be food for him eventually.

Thanks for all the info! I hope your puffs are doing well. They are beautiful. I have three large Fahaka puffers who are doing great (Ollie is now a foot long, in a 300 gallon tank) but just adopted my first dragon puffer, so am new to their ways. Mine is a juvenile, about an inch long, and such an interesting little lurker. Learning!