new fish

[beaver8888]

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?

 

[Lai Liu Ha]

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

 

[beaver8888]

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?

 

[luvmygobies]

Mine eat frozen stuff, as long as it's thawed first. I've heard that they also like the usually-pesky freshwater snails- those small black ones that spread like mad.

 

[beaver8888]

all it did this morning is swim up and down i put in blood worms but it did not look intersed so i dunno

 

[madhippoz]

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.

 

[luvmygobies]

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.

 

[madhippoz]

No, they don't do well at all in a brackish water setting *snip* They can't handle it.

*Evil Grin* I know .

 

[mike the zealot]

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

 

[420Loach]

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!)

 

[v3x10e8]

Considering your puffer is a new addition, it probably takes sometime for him to get use to and start to eating normally. My polypterus senegalus wasn't eating anything but fresh shimp for the first week. Now he loves shimp pallets.

 

[luvmygobies]

Mine can be picky right after a water change and the SGs fluxuating. Mostly they pretty hungry all the time though- it's hard to refuse them food.

 

[beaver8888]

o ok cause i was getting worried but ty for letting me know all this ^.^