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will dwarf puffer eat crayfish meat?
just seen some in my local shop on offer and thought that it could form part of the meaty diet for a my dwarf puffers or a bit of variety if not anything else. currently they get brine frozen/live bloodworm and snails

just a thought
any views

mark

If they will eat it, great. But your current diet is fine for a dp. Try adding black worms

Mine will only eat live blackworms. You can try though.

ok thanks
just thought of a something different daily really??

Mark

think I might give it a go will let u people know the outcome


mark

DP's incisors are not very strong at all. I doubt that they could or would attack the live cray unless it were a tiny hatchling, and those tend to hide pretty well. I'd stick to smaller, softer foods for DPs.

FWIW...

the cray wouldn't be live It would be just the meat out of the packet from the supermarket I would just give a little see what reaction would be from the dp.

Markalgar wrote:the cray wouldn't be live It would be just the meat out of the packet from the supermarket I would just give a little see what reaction would be from the dp.

Most of those Ive seen are already cooked, are yours raw?

pretty sure its cooked yeah is that a no no

Foods must be raw/ uncooked and unseasoned

Thank u I didn't know that learn something new every day

Cooking always involves so loss of vitamins and other such trace-level nutrients. For that matter, even the free-thaw process involves some losses, but not nearly as badly as does cooking. Human diets involve cooking of multiple forms of foods, but wild animals in general never see cooked foods except from humans...

Thanks for the great info people

Mark

Cooked food is also difficult for a fish to digest.