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06-22-2003, 07:21 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rhode island
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|  new fish just got a firgure 8 puffer fish today i know it has not even been 1 hour but the dude at my lfs says he last fed him 12 hours ago so i threw in blood worms and tubifex wormcubes he did not eat either so i threw iin a live earth worm and he tore it to pieces in seconds im wounrding if hes picky or does it have to eat 100% live food?? cause i looked up[ alot of info and it says frozen and freez dried food would be ok like shrimp/bloodworms etc but im just woundering if i should be worried or not?  
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06-22-2003, 07:33 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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| i have a figure 8 who eats freeze dried bloodworms, freeze dried gamarus, frozen brine shrimp, shrimp pellets, and cichlid pellets i think maybe if u let it go hungry a bit more
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06-22-2003, 08:30 PM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rhode island
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| im also looking in buying mussle for it to eat it says its the main diet of puffers so ill try that tommrow possibly whats gamarus?
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I've heard that they also like the usually-pesky freshwater snails- those small black ones that spread like mad.|
06-23-2003, 05:48 AM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rhode island
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| all it did this morning is swim up and down i put in blood worms but it did not look intersed so i dunno
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06-23-2003, 10:26 AM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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| Heh if you want some of those freshwater snails luvmygobies mentioned, I could mail you about 2 dozen of the fecking things! I'm in the midst of a futile battle to rid my 10gal tank of them. They breed like damned rabbits! But I don't think they do well in salty Brackish water (evil grin) so I've been tossing them in my Brackish tank.
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06-23-2003, 06:00 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: May 2003 Location: AR/IL/NY
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| No, they don't do well at all in a brackish water setting, madhippoz.... If you ever have any plants or anything that you want to be sure are clean of snails, just add some salt to the water. They can't handle it. |
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06-23-2003, 07:05 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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06-23-2003, 07:15 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bend, OR
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| Yeah my brother in law adopted a puffer to clean his 20g. In about 2 hours the tank was clean, I'd say maybe 20 snails? It was cool, you could hear him crunching them.. =P
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06-23-2003, 07:49 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Makaha, Hawaii
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| my puffer didnt eat anything until i tossed in some live brine shrimp, so far ive gotten him to eat that, freeze dried baby shrimp, and im about to feed him some snails. i think there the same ones mentioned because i got about ten from a friend about a week ago and now theres about thirty in the bin.(hahahahahahaaa...crunch,crunch!)
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