The Puffer Forum

I just went to the Asian grocery store and they had "mud" snails that looked like regular mystery snails covered in mud. I bought 1.7lbs for 5ish$ pretty sweet deal. Now, I have gone to Petsmart and bought snails for 2.99 each before and just feed it straight to my puffer. My question is, do I gotta freeze these snails for health reasons before feeding puffs, or not or maybe I should have been even freezing the other ones too? It sounds silly to ask but do snails even carry disease puffers can get sick from. excuse my stupidity.

Edit^ I do realize I misspelled freezing.

Rather be safe then sorry if I were you. Freezing is an excellent way to ensure your puffer stays disease free. And yes, there are a few parasitic organisms that snails can transfer as food, most being parasitic worms or flukes.

thanks ill just freeze em for 48hrs.