The Puffer Forum

During my lurker-dom and beyond, I keep reading "don't feed cooked for human food" to the gods of pufferness.

Is there a reason why? I've never fed anything other than raw food to my masters.

Young minion. Your masters stomachs are of pure nature and weren't contaminated with the un natural tolerance of fire bathed food. They cannot digest food of hethens as you so delightfully devour with ease. Likewise goes to you. After many generations of sinfully bathing your food with fire, you cannot tolerate the holiness of natural raw food in your blasphemous innards for your stool may be your death.

LOL, silly response but true!

To add to that, people talk about feeding crab (not live) to their puffers. However, you can't purchase crab that has not been cooked, so that leaves only live crab. I don't think people realize that all crab is cooked if you buy it in a store. I did give that to my GSP on two occassions, and he did fine, but I'm a bit afraid to do it much more. Does anyone know why people say you can feed frozen crab??

He does like it But he likes pretty much everything. lol!

Gwen

Well.. from where I am, there a variety call flower crab. Its frozen dead and thawed. And its raw.

I buy live and freeze it.

Vietnamese market down the road from me sells raw uncooked crabs whole and halves..try finding a place like that

defool89 wrote:Vietnamese market down the road from me sells raw uncooked crabs whole and halves..try finding a place like that

I've just been told about a wholesale/retail fish shop on Montreal which I'n going to investigate...

If they are too big for your puffers break them up prior to freezing, crabs are hard frozen crabs are proper solid.