The Puffer Forum

Yippee!!! Good going!

I know!
However, when I checked on him this morning he was stuck to the filter. I turned it off though, and he swam away unharmed.

Put a sponge over the filter intake.

Got it.

After eating two worms soaked in garlic, my puffer has stopped eating the worms. He no longer looks quite so skinny, but still appears malnourished. Is there any other food that he will eat?

pufferjw wrote:After eating two worms soaked in garlic, my puffer has stopped eating the worms. He no longer looks quite so skinny, but still appears malnourished. Is there any other food that he will eat?

try crickets, grasshoppers, and small crayfish
also, (frozen/defrosted/raw): clams, mussels, shrimp, crabmeat, squid
nothing cooked!

Thank you for the suggestions. I'll try live crawfish and shrimp.

Thank you for all of the help and suggestions. Today I put two small bamboo shrimp in my puffer's tank, and he chased them and caught one. He only ate part of it, but he did look pretty full afterwards. I think that the PraziPro must have finally worked!

Be sure to gut-load the shrimp before feeding out, so they are more nutritious. How many prazi treatments did he get?

I always gut load my red cherry shrimp before feeding, and I got my puffer to eat two worms and a bite of shrimp injected with PraziPro, and I gave him a PraziPro bath for 15 minutes.

The bath is a waste of time. FW fish do not drink water. I would treat everything he eats for 3-5 days.

Okay, I'll soak some live shrimp before I put them in the tank. Also, my puffer has been glass surfing at the top of the tank recently, which I've heard is rare for Congo puffers.

Mine does that when he's hungry. I would actually feed medicated food to the shrimp.

Okay, I'll feed my shrimp medicated food. I also use the shrimp to feed my DP, though, so is it okay if the DP doesn't have anything wrong with her and eats the medicated shrimp?

Sure, it's fine.