The Puffer Forum

I hope I'm not jumping the gun on this, but after having my Congo Puffer for 2.5 weeks, he still has yet to eat. Anything.

I've tried stick feeding for a half hour every second day to no avail, using both krill and mussels. If he's buried in the sand, he'll watch the food on the stick but won't make any movement towards it. Often he'll even come out of the sand and swim away from the food. After being unburied, he doesn't even look twice at the food.

I also introduced a healthy population of glass shrimp into his tank, which now throw parties right in front of him while he just watches on, buried. When he unburies, he'll smack into the shrimp as if he didn't know they were there, but refuses to eat them. These shrimp have been with him since he was introduced and all remain accounted for.

For those of you who own these fish - did you have similar problems in getting yours to eat? Is this all just a matter of patience, or is there something I can do to get him eating that I haven't tried yet?

If you're afraid it's getting too skinny, I'd throw in a small female fiddler crab, just to get it fed.

I never found a new one to eat off a stick. Try using a piece of shrimp & bounce it on the end of a thread. I've also stuck the tread in the glass top, so it moved on it's own in front of the finter output. I really got tired of bouncing that string after 15 minutes!