Are GSP's teeth too long? Plz HELP

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i have recently bought a few GSP's and were eating constantly for about a week now but a few days ago i have noticed that they stopped eating. They would get excited once the food hits the water but they are unable to eat it. Sometimes they would try to eat but would spit it back out. Does this mean the GSP's teeth are too long? Please help because one of them just died and i don't want to loose another one.

P.S. If the GSP's teeth are too long, is it possibe to get the LFS to trim the teeth for me because i'm new to this and i don't want to harm the little ones.
 
Odds are that if their teeth are getting to long you should be able to see them pretty easily. What have you been feeding them? Puffers need a crunchy food source to keep their teeth ground down such as snails, or ghost shrimp. Supposedly some vets trim puffer teeth but none that I know do it. If you need to do it, odds are that you will have to do it youself.
There used to be a great posting on a website about this and I cannot find it at this time. I will see what I can find once I get home tonight.
Pufferpunk on this website provided the info last time so if she comes around and sees this she can help. I found the old posting on this website but the links no longer work.
Good luck.

Found where the article moved to:
Puffer Dentistry

Also found this:
More puffer dentistry
 
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That is the exact same thing that mine is doing...I have had it for 5 days and it ate a litte bit of the brine shrimp I put in 2 days a go...and it was picking up the blood worms and spitting them back out today when i fed it....but it did this for about an hour...i dont know if it actually ate any of the food or not....but I will be trying planton in 2 days...I'm thing it may be the food....My GSP is to small to eat ghost shrimp because there were some in there with it and it never even went near them so i took them out because they were giving me the creeps!
 
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