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hi i am new to the puffer world and just had one quick question.
i know you are suppost to feed the puffers snails to file their teeth down, i live out of town and dont go in much so i was wondering how long i can go before their teeth get to long.
like would one snail a month be enough for its teeth?
thanks

kevinjgray88 wrote:hi i am new to the puffer world and just had one quick question.
i know you are suppost to feed the puffers snails to file their teeth down, i live out of town and dont go in much so i was wondering how long i can go before their teeth get to long.
like would one snail a month be enough for its teeth?
thanks

Why not buy frozen foods with shells on like shrimp, cockles and mussels and compliment with snails whenever you can?

F8's don't tend to suffer as much as other puffers but I feed mine food with shells on about 3 times a week. I only used to do it once a week but I noticed the teeth geeting longer.

depending on how far you want to go with this you could get a small say 3 gal tank with a small sponge filter and small heater and keep/breed the snails to feed him, I set one up a few weeks ago and it cost me about £25 for the lot, you can get your snails off ebay cheap too, i brought 20 of a seller for £3.50p. easy to look after too, just give them fruit & veg with the odd bit of flaked fish food.

Iliveinazoo wrote:

kevinjgray88 wrote:hi i am new to the puffer world and just had one quick question.
i know you are suppost to feed the puffers snails to file their teeth down, i live out of town and dont go in much so i was wondering how long i can go before their teeth get to long.
like would one snail a month be enough for its teeth?
thanks

Why not buy frozen foods with shells on like shrimp, cockles and mussels and compliment with snails whenever you can?

F8's don't tend to suffer as much as other puffers but I feed mine food with shells on about 3 times a week. I only used to do it once a week but I noticed the teeth geeting longer.

so a frozen clam or something with a shell? how big because he is only about 1.5" and do i throw it in frozen or should i thaw it first

kevinjgray88 wrote:

Iliveinazoo wrote:

kevinjgray88 wrote:hi i am new to the puffer world and just had one quick question.
i know you are suppost to feed the puffers snails to file their teeth down, i live out of town and dont go in much so i was wondering how long i can go before their teeth get to long.
like would one snail a month be enough for its teeth?
thanks

Why not buy frozen foods with shells on like shrimp, cockles and mussels and compliment with snails whenever you can?

F8's don't tend to suffer as much as other puffers but I feed mine food with shells on about 3 times a week. I only used to do it once a week but I noticed the teeth geeting longer.

so a frozen clam or something with a shell? how big because he is only about 1.5" and do i throw it in frozen or should i thaw it first

Yeah that will work but you do have to thaw it out. LilGreenPuffer got some good tips on feeding on the 1/2 shell which will make them grind their teeth on it, I think that she smears garlic on the shell or something.

They don't need much, at the moment he probably only needs about five millimetres square, but try it out first - once their belly is round they've had enough

That wasn't me. I think it was Pufferpunk.

Lots of folks here feed that way.