The Puffer Forum

I've been sort of thinking of getting one of the smallish, ambush-y pufferfish (miurus, suvattii, baileyi), and I've done a fair amount of research about requirements. However, one thing that came up in a few places was that, once you convince them to go off of live food (which is apparently generally a good idea?), they need "human-quality" fish. Is this true, and what precisely does this mean? Could I feed my puffer fish canned tuna? Or a frozen fish fillet?

The rest of feeding seemed pretty straightforward--occasional shrimp, bloodworms, etc. Am I missing something there?

Definitely not tuna, it'll make a mess. Frozen fish are fine, I also feed mine shrimp & scallops. I defrost in water treated with Vita-chem.

I feed mine a mix diet, uncooked whole shrimp (sold in big bags for humans in the local supermarket), bloodworm, white shrimp, tubiflex, worms, apples snails (I breed)