The Puffer Forum

My lfs advised me to give freeze dried krill to my F8s because it's harder and will help trim their teeth better. Are these any good?

Much better things to give, such as snail, shell on shrimp, mussles, clams ect. Krill can cause lock jaw mostly in porc puffers. Most people tend to stay away from it here, hard to get them eating other foods once they get use to it. I myself would skip the krill.

http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic72164-10-1.aspx

The fishes in the LFS are usually starved or not well fed so that will appear more active. So they will just eat any food that is dumped in. Freeze dried krills can be used as a occasional treats. BUT u are suppose to soak them in tank water first as u wouldn't wan them to eat the air in the krills. And after soaking, your freeze dried krills are soft. So, never listen to the LFS.

Aren't they too small for clams still? I feed them shrimp with shell on it they hardly touch the shell.

trekenk wrote:Much better things to give, such as snail, shell on shrimp, mussles, clams ect. Krill can cause lock jaw mostly in porc puffers. Most people tend to stay away from it here, hard to get them eating other foods once they get use to it. I myself would skip the krill.

http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic72164-10-1.aspx

I think that's been when krill was a staple/exclusive, but I'm not sure.

The thing about freeze-dried foods is that they're not as nutritious. The seafood section of your grocery stores is full of the good stuff - frozen and fresh prawns, krill, shrimp, crabs, lobsters, mussels, clams, etc. Fresh food should be frozen to kill any diseases they might be carrying, and previously-frozen food should not be re-frozen before feeding - ask if anything's been frozen and thawed. Any of this can be soaked in vitamins made specially for marine fish.

I soak the food in vitachem for fw fish.

That link is also about porcpuffs--not sure it causes lockjaw in any other fish. But all fish need a varied diet.