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Hello all, I have a slight variation of a frequently asked question on the forum (I have already read the Puffer pedia articles and such) about DP's.

I recently adopted two female c. travancoricus that are rather thin. The younger of the two has a red chin from being so skinny- they are definitely saveable and are now taking most of the usual fare: blood worms, thawed frozen spirulina brine shrimp, and thawed frozen daphnea. They won't touch live food- no small ramshorn snails or live Amano shrimp (they seem to think they're tank mates not food...).

My question is this: what is the fattiest food I can feed these girls to plumpen them up, junk food if you will, to try and put some weight on these 2 asap? I'm familiar with what they ^usually^ eat but I'm looking for the meatiest and heaviest offering I can give. I'm so desperate to get these super lovey girls the healthiest I can, any advice is welcome!

Live blackworms. I gut-load them with crushed flakes/plankton.

Try live brine shrimp no puffer can resist them

I have searched the forum, and still don't quite understand gut loading. So i need to keep them in large portions and feed them the flakes before feeding the worms to the puffs? I have 2 toddlers and fight like sin to keep them from my water change buckets, how do i hide/store the worms? Can they live in my fridge?

Yeah they can live in the fridge, that's where my lfs keeps them

Gut loading just means that you feed your live food with good nutritious, and vitamin rich stuff like spirulina based foods.