Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:43 am
She or he. I don't know, DP's are so stubborn sometimes.
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Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:03 pm
I tried it with bloodworms again, He hasn't eaten anything for a couple days so I was hoping he would eat it, seeing as how thats what she eats, put a ton of garlic in, so he chased it, but he however did not eat any, just chased.... he is pissing me off.
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:06 pm
Maybe you could just soak one or two of the bloodworms for a period of time, and stick them in with some normal ones.
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:24 pm
What does he love to eat? If he doesn't normally eat bloodworms, he won't eat them with garlic and medication on them either. Just try whatever he normally eats, snails, bacon, whatever, and just soak it in medicine for a few minutes. It doesn't seem to take much medication to ninja the worms out for some reason.
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:54 pm
lol okay, the only thing I've gotten him to eat is snails, so I can try that tomorrow after class. I've never tried bacon. Do they really eat bacon?
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:05 pm
ROFL!Salmon wrote:I've never tried bacon. Do they really eat bacon?
Sorry Salmon, but that was awesome!
. . .In all seriousness though, I would never feed a puffer bacon. It is the wrong kind of meat, and has WAY too high of a fat content. If IPs don't give the puffer digestive problems, bacon will lol. If anyone has ever fed their puffer bacon for a valid reason, I am ready and willing to accept correction, but...
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:09 pm
The only reason you should feed it to them is cause its only the BEST FOOD EVER!!!!!!!!!!
and we all wanna feed our puffers the best lol
and we all wanna feed our puffers the best lol
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:10 pm
TOTALLY kidding about the bacon!
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:12 pm
Try the snails, experiment with amount of medication and time to soak.
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:31 pm
Will do!
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:13 am
I don't know if you have taken this into account, but it's important so I'm gonna mention it. Both puffs need to be treated for the IPs because they can be passed and even your girl isn't showing signs,yet, she may have them.
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:17 am
I would try to get him to just eat the medicated snails if that is what he likes
the bacon is definitely not in a puffers diet but should be in every humans!!! lol
the bacon is definitely not in a puffers diet but should be in every humans!!! lol
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:33 am
The girl is the only one eating the food.
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:36 am
Correct. She has eaten the bloodworms the last 4 times I tried. So next is mediated snails, he seems to only like them in the shell
Re: Dwarf Puffers and IPs
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:37 am
maybe isolate to him/hers tanks and try feeding them separately with the same food, one of my dps has a nasty habit of eating all the food just so the other cant get any, so i isolate them with a acrylic sheet while feeding them