Too Small?
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:16 am
I have had a green spotted puffer for a couple months. It’s about an inch and a half (~4cm) and while it seems healthy and happy enough, but it does not seem to be getting much bigger.
I had it in a ten-gallon tank with a few mollies, and moved it to a twenty-gallon a week ago.
I feed it mostly frozen blood-worms which it eats with reckless abandon.
I would not be concerned, but other posts have indicated theirs grow faster. The mollies have doubled in size over the same period and they actually push the puffer around a bit.
I did have to leave it for a week once with an auto-feeder, but while the mollies looked fine, the puffer looked starved. It (apparently) will not eat the pellets.
I had it in a ten-gallon tank with a few mollies, and moved it to a twenty-gallon a week ago.
I feed it mostly frozen blood-worms which it eats with reckless abandon.
I would not be concerned, but other posts have indicated theirs grow faster. The mollies have doubled in size over the same period and they actually push the puffer around a bit.
I did have to leave it for a week once with an auto-feeder, but while the mollies looked fine, the puffer looked starved. It (apparently) will not eat the pellets.