The Puffer Forum

for the past few months my gsp eats out of my hand.well i had mollie fry and had to put a couple in puffs tank.he hasnt been right since,i took them out after a couple days cause he wasnt acting right.now instead of coming up for food in morning he waits for me to drop it so he can attack it.well for awhile i couldnt get snails,now i have a tank full of them and puff wont touch them???how do i get them in his diet if hes never had them?he loves his krill and squid,he nips them than hes done i have black sand and they fall to the bottom and blend then i have to scoop them out.

Crush a couple snails before putting them in the tank

This probably isn't the answer you're looking for but I find that my puffs...except the fahaka, he's never picky...go through phases. For example, my Congo puffer used to be ALL OVER thawed shrimp - now he won't even look at it. My gsp's were the same way when we started feeding them on thawed shrimp. It just took some time since they were used to bloodworms. Eventually they'll figure out that it's food & that they better eat it.

Cuchulainn wrote:Crush a couple snails before putting them in the tank

LOL!! I was going to say that too

+1

the blood should attract it