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mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:19 am
by madugo
this guy is eating more and more...
i dont do crawfish a lot, just maybe like twice a month...just to trim the teeth a little...a few crawfish is like nothing now...
finishing one in a few seconds..
he is learn to be smarter too...
used to going from the front against the claws...which he will get snaps on his skin each time by the crawfish claws...
now he always going from the tail first, or from the back of the head, or one bite in the middle of it...break the head off..and eat the body first, then the head...
i will try to take a video next time when i feed crawfish again...
this is the first one...see his stomach was a little flat...haven't feed in a day or so only...
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then the stomach was a little full after the 3rd one...
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and then he was taking a break...
after awhile he noticed there was another left over head...and he went for it again..lol
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and when he was finally done...just resting on the sand bed a little..lol...and he was swimming around again...
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and in conclusion...i got him a little over a year...over the year he double his size i think...but he is suppose to be bigger then what he is now...but little things happens....3 times of ich..once of them took over a month to completely got off...and i was at china during last summer for 2 month...and he only got feed once every two weeks because my mom was too busy to come to my house to feed him...and during last year i was only feeding him like twice a week...started from this year...like once everyday or two days...that's when he started to growing a lot...
now i am all buying jumbo shrimps...these are like more then 4" long...the biggest one i could find on the market, which is like equal 3 of the small ones i use to feed...now he could eat one jumbo shrimp each day...and the next morning like nothing happened...swimming all around again...
one thing is i notice the 150 is getting a little small for him already...need to look for a bigger tank soon....
anyway..found the pic i took back when i first got him...
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Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:55 am
by Hilly
Great pictures. Youd never know he was that skinny little thing.

Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:49 am
by lesleyanndunn
hes beautiful <3

great pics...

Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:48 am
by jus85411
have you treated for IP's? for not feeding for only a day or two he seems awfully skinny. just an observation, i havent kept mbu's but i have a GSP and i could go probably at least 2 weeks without him getting close to being that skinny. other than that, hes awesome looking! and im jealous! i want a mbu eventually

Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:42 pm
by madugo
it may just be the angle of that pic...
it does not get skinny...just after a few days, you can just see a normal puffer with that normal stomach..just not like the very round stomach when u just feed a lot...
i did ip with metro when i first got him, that's when i know he got ips, which he does not gain weight at all...
now i dont find him skinny or not normal so i am not doing any..
i find it is a little different then gsp...
i used to keep a few gsps...and they are just staying fat all the time...
maybe i am still a little underfeed on the mbu, maybe i should do another ip just in case this year too...

Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:08 pm
by L!$A
Great pictures, what size of tank do you plan on buying him for life?? I have a mbu as well :)

Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:41 pm
by LilGreenPuffer
Aw, he was so tiny and thin, and he's so much fatter now! He's gorgeous!

Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:37 pm
by ACF
madugo, you have to get that on video! Very Nice!

*cheers*

Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:38 pm
by cswank
My saba puffer has the same behavior with crawfish, but I'm still pretty jealous of your beautiful mbu! Definitely would enjoy seeing a vid of him feeding someday.

Re: mbu bang on crawfish...

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:42 pm
by autophotos
very nice pics indeed - keep it up