The Puffer Forum

Thanks for all the help you guys gave me. Bloat, now named Pluto by popular vote, has a sufficient 30 gallon home and it is much prettier. I've taken pictures and attached them for your enjoyment.

Very colorful!

looks like you got all your decorations at walmart. I like it!

Only the stump and the anemone came from Walmart. The plants and the coral came from Petsmart. My Walmart didn't really sell the kind of plants I wanted for my tank. I had some other plants in there that had been from Walmart but I noticed that Pluto stayed away from plants that had the more prickly edges. It's taking him some time to get used to the new decorations but he nosing around the coral today. The anemone is still pretty much left alone, but he'll warm up to it.

Pluto looks like a pretty big guy. How big is he?

I don't know for sure because he never sits very still, but I'd estimate him at about 3 inches or so. He was just under 2 inches when I bought him from Walmart back in early April.

Wow he is growing rather quickly. you must feed him well!

I feed him San Francisco Bay Saltwater Multi-pack frozen food, with freeze dried krill as a treat in between and hand-feed frozen people shrimp about once a week. My only concern about his diet is that live snails small enough for him are hard to come by where I live. I've been hoping that the frozen shrimp has been wearing his teeth down sufficiently. I don't thaw it out before I feed him and he seems to have to work pretty hard at chomping away at it. I was feeding him every day when I first got him and now that he's bigger, I've started feeding him every other day.

I have a few pet stores that give me free snails around here. Plus I have a tank breeding some currently. You may want to try to feed him muscles or cockles. When his teeth scrape against the shell it helps keep them trimmed down. That may help if you're worried that his teeth will become overgrown.

Thanks. I might try that. My LFS sells frozen clams on the half shell I thought I might try.

go for it. anything is better than nothing