Puffer eat steak?

[isaac newton]

Is it safe to feed puffers chicken and steak? Outdoor snails and worms?

[MonoSebaelover]

I don't know since I don't feed my fish anything that they wouldn't get outside of their natural environment. I would think that steak and chicken would be very fatning to them though. I would wash outside worms off before use (I feed some to my Red Ear Slider Turtle whenever it rains here which is next to never. Dang drought!). Hope this helps.

[Pufferpunk]

I agree with MS. Outside snails & worms are ok, but I wouldn't even feed my fish the beefheart you sometimes see in lfs. Only a pirahna would eat that.

[ChilDawg]

And only a piranha would be built to eat that...they eat mammalian-type critters all the time. As I said in the parallel post in General FW, microworms and baby snails would be the foods which I would feed a dwarf puffer.

[VoodooChild]

I'm probably going to get scolded for this one, but if your LFS has too many baby mollies and are happy to give them away, that'll work nicely. Just as a treat. The puffers we have (figure 8's, but a dwarf should still be able to easily get molly fry) will chase them forever. Seems like a reprieve from boredom.

[ChilDawg]

<<SCOLDING>>

No, not really...it sounds good, Voodoo, but I do have a question about size.

Are the baby mollies going to be too big for dwarf puffers to eat?

[VoodooChild]

I wouldn't think so. Dwarfs are mini, but newborn fry are the size of pinheads. Besides, puffers have those nice little jaws to take things apart should the need arise.