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Porcupine Puffer Fish eat crustaceans in the wild and will accept most types of marine fish food including frozen, freeze dried, vitamin enriched flakes and live foods. Small pieces of fresh shrimp and clam can be chopped up and given. Give them a variety of fish foods but mostly meaty items for optimal health.
Well Known. Messages. 2,694. Jul 29, 2017. #2. Such a pretty fish love them they should eat the dried bloodworms or you could buy them some brime shrimp or ghost shrimp would be a delicacy. Always want Dwarf puffers tell me how they are! Advertisement. C.
Commonly sold as a freshwater fish, the GSP will only do well without marine salt in its water for a very short time. A good brackish setup is needed for health and longevity of the GSP. They should be kept in large aquariums, with no less than 30 gallons per puffer, as they grow to be six inches. A big issue with these fish is the question of ...
Help my South American puffer also know as a amazon puffer is not eating. She/he is skinny compared to my other puffer fish. She was doing fine when I first let her into our 15 gallon tank. How it’s started: I was at a huge fish store and since my last aquarium broke I had to buy a new one (my previous fish where in a large bucket with a ...
The ammonia builds up and kills the fish. Meat based foods like beef heart, bloodworms, prawn, etc produce more ammonia than dry foods. You best bet is to reduce feeding to 2-3 times per week and do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day until we work out what is going on.
Figure 8 Puffer Fish Care. Scientific Name : Tetraodon biocellatus. Common Names : Figure eight puffer, Eyespot pufferfish, F8 puffer. Care Level : Moderate. Size : 3" (8 cm) pH : 7.6 - 8.3. Specific Gravity : does best in brackish of 1.005-1.008 SG.
Jul 15, 2004. #9. Earth worms from your own garden should be fine assumeing thatyou dont use chemicals on it.If the snail is bigger than 1/2 an inch your puffer may not be able to get it but if it does the others will join in and eat the snail flesh that is left over. My ghost shrimp are to big for the Dwarf P to eat but he will often kill them ...
151. Oct 7, 2021. #6. It's kind of a gray area. Pea puffers are found in the wild in big groups. However, they can still be happy solo. Your pea puffer would be happy solo, he'll just channel his energy into hunting your shrimp rather than swimming with other pea puffers.
Don't use chemicals to treat puffer fish because they are sensitive. If you need to treat whitespot, raise the water temperature to 30C (86F) and keep it there for 2 weeks. Then reduce the temperature. Do a huge (80-90%) water change and complete gravel clean before raising the temperature.
768. May 20, 2007. #2. stuff like bloodworms, blackworms, snails, etc is usually what puffers eat. an occasional part of a pea is what some people feed, but i've never used that. i've fed the worms and snails. they usually prefer live, but it's a good idea to train them to eat frozen as well though. hope that helps. OP.