If you're worried about the teeth, you should try small ghost shrimp and also add other types of snails such as the common pond and ramshorn snails.
Live brine might help too, dp's love em.
Never feed your dwarf puffers again.... My Dwarf Puffer technique.
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If you're worried about the teeth, you should try small ghost shrimp and also add other types of snails such as the common pond and ramshorn snails.
Live brine might help too, dp's love em.
Sounds like a very smart setup. I have 5 DPs in a 29 gal. community tank. I may try the mts, aren't they the little cone/trumpet shaped snails that the pet stores get rid of for free? However, Thanks to a kind generous member of Aquaria Central, I am setting up a tank to raise the pond snails for my fig 8., Bashful, he won't eat the trumpet kind. I should have enough for all of them, (hopefully). I've tried getting them from the lfs but they don't have many, as they get rid of them quickly. I could raise the trumpets with the pond snails and feed all my puffers what they like (ideally).
what if you put one DP in a ten gallon with the common pond snails would it be able to eat all of them before they reproduced?
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Cool, thanks for the info.
Cool, thanks for the info.
Depends... it is possible if you haven't take care of certain variables:
1) you need the tank to be infested with snails. this means keeping the tank with little to nothing else... and feeding lots of shrimp pellets, flake, etc... for the snails to eat. As mentioned earlier in the thread, give them a few months to build their population first. It should get to a point where the puffers will get full, and then slowly pick off snails, yet the snails reproduce fast enough to replace what get's eaten.
2) A densely planted aquarium is best, to allow hiding spots for snails and their eggs. It doesn't have to be live plants, fake plants, caves really help too.
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you're welcome
I was wondering if you still stand by this feeding method for your dwarf puffers? Do you still have the tank? I have some dwarf puffers now and am trying to find the best way to feed them. I have about a million trumpet snails, but find they eat the pond snails I started faster than they can reproduce.
Awesome thread, brilliant idea! I've been wondering what to put in my 7G but reading this I may go with a dwarf puffer or two. Only problem is I really don't want to breed MTS in my community tank, once the **** things are in there its hell getting rid of them. Is it possible to breed MTS in a 1 gallon bowl or something?
Hi I just got my DPs 4 days ago. I have. Gotten some nuisance snails from my local pet store and they eat them. Just trying to get enough to start a snail tank may be a problem lol. They don't seem interested in frozen krill or brand Shrimp. And the krill floats on top ajd I've never seen them go to the top to eat.
How many snails should I give them a day. They are just regular snails not mts. Can't find any other live food around me here. In northern indiana. Should I order black worms from the internet?
Any helo. Would be appreciated
How many snails should I give them a day. They are just regular snails not mts. Can't find any other live food around me here. In northern indiana. Should I order black worms from the internet?
Any helo. Would be appreciated
I'm thinking of getting some (6) dwarf puffers for my 54L tank. And then I found this thread and want to give it a try. But since it's been some years since last report, I would like to know if the method is still going strong? Is it actually viable? If it is, I'm getting some MTS today and then wait until they infestate the tank before getting the puffers.
Hope someone answers, I signed up just for this question.
Hope someone answers, I signed up just for this question.
