The Puffer Forum

Afternoon all!

My GSP Glock is doing pretty good in his new home and seems happy spending his time in the plants. My research indicates that many people feed their poochfaces once a day, six days a week. Glock ate his first day home, and then the second day, but not the third. I think I should try an every-other-day foodstuffs plan and see how it goes.

I do have a question about foodstuffs: Crab meat....

There is a local seafood shop two blocks from my house and they will sell me half of a fresh crab for $7. Good deal! Now the question... how do I feed this to Glock? Snap off a leg and drop it in? Split the leg so he can get to the meat?

Also, many people have mentioned that they immediately treat for internal parasites upon adopting their wet pet. It this something I should consider? If so, which medication would be recommended?

Well, since no one seemed to know how to go about it, I bought Glock a few crab legs and dropped one in. I did not have high hopes that he'd really know what to do, but the green guy surprised me. He zoomed on over and started taking chunks of meat right away. He tried cracking the shell apart a bit, but that didnt seem to go so well for him. Next time I fed the crab to him I actually just used some scissors to cut off a chunk and dropped that in. It seemed to be a bit better for him and I think he ate more of the meat the second time around. I'm not sure if this will really do anything for his teeth, but he does have to chew some of the crab shell out of the way to get at the meat. Couldn't hurt!

I'm glad you & Glock figured it out. Nom, nom, nom!

How big is he?

Could you provide some good pics. I ask this because from the profile pic it looks very thin.