The Puffer Forum

Do you feed live food to your puffer if so do you drop a bunch in at once say 5 crayfish or do you do one at a time?

1 crayfish should be enough for 1 days feeding

Arny wrote:1 crayfish should be enough for 1 days feeding

Yea thats a tad much to do more than one. An mbu I can see chowing down 2-3 butnot a fahaka.

And yea live I do as well, it does not contradict my morality

Too little info... How much and how often to feed any given puffer is determined by the particular puffer, its size and age, and the size of the food being offered. Since none of that information was given, there is no possible answer.

Nothing to do with size more to deal with hunting inn nature a crayfish doesn't fall from the sky once a day the puffer has to hunt and find its food so I'm thinking of dropping in 5 crays a week and letting him hunt ill still feed a snail or mussel every couple days dependent on my puffers size I have aa 200 gallon tank with lots of hidding spots

sw10mm wrote:Nothing to do with size more to deal with hunting inn nature a crayfish doesn't fall from the sky once a day the puffer has to hunt and find its food so I'm thinking of dropping in 5 crays a week and letting him hunt ill still feed a snail or mussel every couple days dependent on my puffers size I have aa 200 gallon tank with lots of hidding spots

Your puffer isn't living in "nature". In nature the prey has a better chance to hide and escape.

Sounds like a good potential to have a lot of uneaten flesh rotting in your tank. Even if your puff isn't hungry he may still take the easy oportunity to take a bite leaving the rest to either suffer or die and rot.

Once again what kind of puffer is it? Maybe someone who knows the species can give some more in depth advice. Afterall that was why the thread was created.

+ 1 plus in nature a full puffer will unlikely sit in a closed area with pinchey food.

Sorry guys he's a 6 inch fahaka with a 200 galllon tank and your right about half eaten food never thought of that

It would be good to also mention how large would the cray be..

Small so its a one meal deal plus since my lil guy is lil I don't want food to try n eat himm

I just think of the time 12 years ago I had 4 piranha and dumped in 24 feeders and it lasted me all week but I was dumb and fed feeders and I had 4 guys not 1 idk just an idea don't beat me up for it lol

Not beating you up lol. Dump in a load of snails about the size of his eye so he can spend all day tracking them whilst they help consume waste

I like the snail idea thanks!