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How many time times a day should i be feeding my F8s?????

Should it just be the once? they just seem so hungry all of the time.......

Can i feed am and pm - if i just feed pm their tummys are very flat by am! and every time i walk past they are there expecting food!!!!!

thanks

Puffers are good beggars! They will make you think they are starving and need food all the time. I only feed mine once a day and trust me, that's good enough. They will eat more than they should, so of course they are going to behave as if they are hungry. Don't give in. I feed all of my puffers in the evening and they are all in very good health -- some even being a bit chubby! So I'd stick to just feeding once a day.

They'll play up to you and as far as their appetite is concerned, they don't have an 'off switch'.

I feed mine once at 9am, and that's him done for the day. He'll beg, but if it were up to him he'd eat until he popped. I've had to shout at my girfriend for giving in to her dwarf puffers' begging before now. She kept feeding them two or three times a day, 5ml of bloodworms between three fish each time!

Thats what i thought - owww its so hard - so if i feed them in the evening - could i just give 1/2 little snails in the morning 9to keep them busy) they seems to spend hours playing with them????

haha yeah. my puffers play with the snails too. my F8 gets the shells stuck on his lower lip all the time and makes my mom crack up. i would say only once a day. that's what both me and my mom have been doing since we've gotten the puffers and they are doing great. it is hard to resist those little guys when they beg, but we must.

I also suggest skipping feding oneday/week, for a fast day. Helps them with digestion. Are they skinny at all or just flat tummies? Mine are still fat 3 days after feeding.

just flat tummys - just fed them and they look like weeblws - but tummies will be flat again by morning lol

Sounds normal to me. My puffers have been dewormed, and they're really healthy, but their bellies go down after a few hours.

Pufferpunk wrote: Mine are still fat 3 days after feeding.

Mine are also fat 3 days after feeding... and I thought it was constipation.