The Puffer Forum

Hi, got my new d.p's yesterday, how do I get them to eat? They don't seem to see the food. I've got them freeze dried blood worm and also little snails in the tank but they don't seem bothered?

My spoiled DPs will only eat live blackworms.

They can sometimes take upto week to settle in.

Give them time to settle, they will soon be pigging out

My DPs would eat live blackworms and ramshorn snails. The blackworms were taken best from the perforated cone feeders, which give them time to examine each live worm as it slips through the holes/mesh of the cones, and I kept small reptile water dishes on the substrate to catch the missed worms - the more shy feeders would snare worms from the dish.

Bought some live bloodworms today ( yuk) one definitely likes them, they seem a bit daft, they look at them for ages and either swim off, or 1 ate 2! How many should I give them?

Where do you find live blackworms, bloodworms or daphnia??

None of my LFS have them.

I just got mine from my local pet shop. Do ebay sell them? Master of puffers:how many puffers have you got!

Unfortunately, live food availability varies tremendously from area to area, particularly between countries. Obviously live California blackworms are not going to readily and inexpensively available in the UK or continental Europe as they are in much of the US. But other foods - more local to the region - should be offered.

When I move out to SC, I'm 99.999% sure, I'm gonna have to mail order them. Luckily, i have enough fish that eat them to order 1lb.

Trouty wrote:I just got mine from my local pet shop. Do ebay sell them? Master of puffers:how many puffers have you got!

A quick mental count gives me 25 little darlings, I neeed to update my list and start taking pictures of them.. I also have several more on order. I just may ghave an obessiion with them.

Pufferpunk wrote:When I move out to SC, I'm 99.999% sure, I'm gonna have to mail order them. Luckily, i have enough fish that eat them to order 1lb.

Sounds like that's the kind of thing I'm going to have to do as well.

All in separate tanks? Or do you keep some together? On second thoughts don't tell me, you could be a bad influence!