The Puffer Forum

hi just wondering if your marine puffers eat macro algae?

i got a starter pack of macros (probably just a handful) which I put in the tank hoping it would add some colour besides the rocks?


but 30 minutes later it was cleaned out.. by my dog face.. haha


guess hes got an apetite for them..

*sghs... back to the boring ONLY rocked tank...!!

Algae is on the menu for tobys.

My GSP and my Ceylon both love seaweed strips, and the GSP even goes around and scrapes little round bites of algae off the rocks.

they'd eat anything the little pigs... =)

does dog face eat algae?

anyone have any experience with mixing macro algae with dog face?

I tried feeding sheet algae to my ocellatus but he was having none of it.

maybe only tobys love the way it tastes.. =)

RTR told me to feed it to my fugu. Trying again tonight.

i think my dogface has a taste for it as well.. i put a bunch in last night and seemed to have magically dissapeared this morning

I owned a Stars and Stripes puffer that sucked down algae sheets that was put on a veggie clig for a yellow tang. I had a time trying to feed my tang with that puffer..lol

I wish I could get my S&S to chew on some macro but if it isnt meaty he wont have any of it.

Tobies do! I had some shaving brush plants in my tank. They were awesome at absorbing nutrients and preventing algae growth. Then my hawaiian white spotted toby decided he wanted some salad with his shrimp and absolutely demolished all five of those plants. He didn't even really eat them, just tore them to pieces one by one.

My GSP doesn't eat the cheato. But he does go after bits of leftovers tangled up in it. I thought he was stuck once, but he was just doing what he does...