The Puffer Forum

A good read on Piscivors and the use of feeder fish.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/fwsubwebinde ... tneale.htm

I try to always feed flake/pellet/frozen foods first. Seems that fish grow quicker on other fish...

CoCoPuffs wrote:I try to always feed flake/pellet/frozen foods first. Seems that fish grow quicker on other fish...

Like it says theres three types of piscivors most will eat other things but some won't at all. My puffer would never eat flake pellet or frozen, i can't even be bothered to keep trying with the waving in front of the mouth stuff it just won't eat it. But looks like he has some fungus or white spot. Think it might be the guppies or not stiring my sand enough.

suvattii2012 wrote:

CoCoPuffs wrote:I try to always feed flake/pellet/frozen foods first. Seems that fish grow quicker on other fish...

Like it says theres three types of piscivors most will eat other things but some won't at all. My puffer would never eat flake pellet or frozen, i can't even be bothered to keep trying with the waving in front of the mouth stuff it just won't eat it. But looks like he has some fungus or white spot. Think it might be the guppies or not stiring my sand enough.

I have some SAP's, they eat EVERYTHING. Flake, pellets, stuff a puffer wouldn't normally eat. They're really growing on me, personality wise...but yeah, aside from crustaceans, i won't do fish...

off note but happy to say the fungus or what ever it is has shrunk in size to about half. I have the temp at 29c for now.

Your lucky to have such not picky puffers. Would you SAPs eat a fish or nip it to death? I have no problems feeding live guppies to my puffer because they get killed and gone in less than one second. He loves them red thai crabs but there a rare treat.

suvattii2012 wrote:off note but happy to say the fungus or what ever it is has shrunk in size to about half. I have the temp at 29c for now.

Your lucky to have such not picky puffers. Would you SAPs eat a fish or nip it to death? I have no problems feeding live guppies to my puffer because they get killed and gone in less than one second. He loves them red thai crabs but there a rare treat.

I have 2 old guppies, been around atleast 6-7 months, housed w/the SAP's. Puffers don't pester them....yet.

SAPs are not piscavores. Flakes/pellets are not the proper diet for ANY puffer.

I would of thought a puffer would have to be starving to eat flakes.

Not what wetwebmedia.com says...

+1 to PP's comments.

WWM is not infallible.

My fahaka eats pellets. Not as a staple, but he does get some in his/her diet.

market shrimp
crayfish (breeding in a 55 gallon)
rams snails (breeding in a 10 & 20 gallon)
and some pellets as a treat maybe once a week or two.

You don't want to use pellets as a staple because they can pollute the water quite a bit. The way puffers are such messy eaters, they tend to crush the pellets, releasing some "dust" into the water column. Just my opinion.