The Puffer Forum

Hi!
I have a Suvattii which has been in my tank since december. He eats well and seems to do fine. I mostly feed him Scampi which seems to be very popular I have also tried defrosted cod. He reluctantly eats it, but not in in such proportions as when i use Scampi. It seems to me that using just Scampi will become a little monotonus and I`m looking for some input as to what alternative food i shuld use? I guess shrimp will work also, so I will try this. But do you have any other ideas as to what I should feed him? I live in Norway, and using live fish is illegal so that is not an option. (Nor would I want to use this, even if I could)

Kind regards
Marius Podolski

Earthworms, my puffers go crazy for them.

Tender wrote:Hi!
I have a Suvattii which has been in my tank since december. He eats well and seems to do fine. I mostly feed him Scampi which seems to be very popular I have also tried defrosted cod. He reluctantly eats it, but not in in such proportions as when i use Scampi. It seems to me that using just Scampi will become a little monotonus and I`m looking for some input as to what alternative food i shuld use? I guess shrimp will work also, so I will try this. But do you have any other ideas as to what I should feed him? I live in Norway, and using live fish is illegal so that is not an option. (Nor would I want to use this, even if I could)

Kind regards
Marius Podolski

illegal feeding your puff with live fish ? what u meant?
sometimes i even throw them to the wall if i get pissed off catching them with net...

thats a weird thing to make illigal.

mussel

Hi Tender. Nice to see you in here!

You can't hide from me here either. I've got another name, but you should recognize my avatar. Did you see Koseklumpen's greetings to your suvattii? I hope he turns out all well.

Hi Troender!
Yes, I know very well who you are, and I`m really happy to se you in this forum aswell
Tell Koseklumpen that VV says thanks!!!

I`m away on work at the moment so I`m not quite sure how the Suvattii is doing. But my 11 year old daughter is coming to my house to change water on all my 11 tanks tomorrow, so I`ll get an update then. I`m pretty sure that it`s IP in one form or another because she is very eager to get the food, but spits it out after just one bite. As I said on AF: Levamisole is what I will try first. This is highly effective on my Botias. But I wont start treatment until I get home on the 29th. Because treatment with Levamisole has to be monitored quite closely. Risk of overdose is much higher/dangerous than with Flubenol. This is a bit OT, but it is related to my thread in the sense that I was worried about the fish not getting varied enough food because it seemed uninterested in eating as much as usual. But after having tried many different kinds of food I`m thinking that IP`s is quite probable.

Kind regards
Marius

Try snails

I've also just started giving my puffers a piece of raw salmon and they love it. I wouldn't feed this all the time though as it's quite a fatty fish

Also try Crickets, Naboo my Mbu likes them but he only seems to like biting their heads off

Thanks for the tip
The tank is full of tiny snails. Something which is quite remarkable as it used to be a Loach/Botia tank. I thought they were wiped out, but after the Suvattii moved in they have made a comeback. The snails might actually be the reason for an IP infestation. They carry a lot of sh**t.

Maybe I`ll try salmon. Coming from Norway, thats pretty easy to get hold of
Thanks!!!