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Picked up my figure eight today…was watching some videos of them……….?

on You Tube . In these videos – I saw a puffer being hand fed a shrimp (like shrimp cocktail that we would eat). It made me curious and I thought I may try that out sometime – I love shrimp myself, so we could ‘share’ a plate. Anyone tried that or what other foods (that you can buy in a grocery store) can they eat: so far I plan to try frozen krill, frozen bloodworms, shrimp pellets, live snails, freeze dried brine shrimp and freeze dried tubifex worms. Any other suggestions? Also, when feeding frozen food to them, is it best to thaw first, like you normally would or drop in frozen so they can ‘tear at it’. Thanks for the help.

I have been setting up my tank for the past 2 months – and finally today I picked up my puffer (had to special order).

Indian dwarf puffer help!?

I have posted about this before. I went to the pet store today and they told me they fed my indian dwarf puffers frozen brine shrimp. Ive been trying to feed them that for several days. They will not eat it. I got one to try it and it spit it out so im not sure if it ate any of it or just spit it all out, but one still has not eaten and its been 5 days. Ive tried frozen brine shrimp, shrimp pellets, flake food, I also put a snail in there about 2 days ago and they have had no interest in it and the snail is still alive and moving. I went today and bought frozen bloodworms to try that and they have been very lathargic and didnt want anything to do with the bloodworms either. I tested the water and the ammonia levels are perfect. So dont know what to do now. Please anyone with some good information help me.

Figure Eight Puffer Not Eating/ Sickness?

My F8 puffer has been in his new brackish tank for a week now and has done fine so far. He will eat the small snails immediately as soon as I drop them in the tank. However, he does not seem to care for or eat much of the frozen brine shrimp that I put in as his main food source. Today I woke up and he has been very inactive(sitting in the plants or on the ground the majority of the time and only swimming every once and a while) He usually is very friendly to me and swims up to me as soon as he sees me and he has not been doing this today. I went out and bought frozen bloodworms today and put them in there a few minutes ago and he hasn’t done anything with them yet. Every once and a while it appears as though he coughs and his skin looks a little bumpier than it has previously. Does anyone have an idea of what is happening to him? Can anyone with personal Figure 8 puffer experience help me out?

i have a question about my green spotted puffers?

i have 2 gsps and one is bigger than the other. I have the in a 30 gallon tank with a divider because i have other fish. My questions are my smaller puffer has black on the sides of its belly that seem to not go away but its belly is white is that normal. Also wut kind of decor should i have in the tank. Right now i have one plant a live rock and 2 other types of tank decor i wanted to know what else i should put in there. My final question is how much should i feed them. ive been feeding them a half a cube of brine shrimp is that enough or to much? I guess just tell me everything i need to know to maintain a green spotted puffer

i went to the fish store yesterday and saw that they had the puffer i wanted?

ok i went to my fish store to buy a blennie and noticed there was the puffer i wanted it looked ALMOST exactly alike the one i wanted and bought it and my blennie and a small gobie (darnit haha should had bought that 1:00 bag of live brine shrimp) anyway and i went home got online and looked to make sure it was the right puffer but it wasnt but i already had bonded with it anyway and i was wondering the original puffer i wanted was a honeycomb puffer and i wanted to kno can i get that without them fighting… i mean a territoreal chase every now and again is fine i mean no killing anyway can i here are the fish i haveits a 55 gallon tank

1 yellow watchman gobie
1 snowflake eel
3 damsel fish
1 maroon goldstripe clown
that puffer i mentioned the 1 blue dot puffer and
1 lawnmower blennie so can i get the honeycomb puffer?? cause i really want it and grab
oh yea this puffers doing fine eating pecking at the rocks and hes a blue dot puffer