green spotted puffer food
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We keep a 10g for breeding pond snails. That way we don't have to run to the lfs every couple of days. It's really easy too. Water, airstone, light, plants (fake or real) and some adult snails...soon enough you have tons of the little guys. I have about 80 right now that came from the original 15 I got at my lfs. Only spent $5 on the tank as well. Gotta love yard sales 
We keep a 10g for breeding pond snails. That way we don't have to run to the lfs every couple of days. It's really easy too. Water, airstone, light, plants (fake or real) and some adult snails...soon enough you have tons of the little guys. I have about 80 right now that came from the original 15 I got at my lfs. Only spent $5 on the tank as well. Gotta love yard sales
thanks for the idea. I might set up a container outside to raise some. do they reproduce quickly?
the puffer is doing very well today. hes much more active and hes eating well. does anyone know how i can get him to eat things that arent alive? he doesnt show any interest in freeze dried krill
They breed like mad, lol. I got 15 of them at my lfs and they laid eggs almost immediately. took about a week for them to hatch and they're big enough for my gsp to eat now. It's been about 2 weeks since they hatched. They eat just about anything too. I just drop in an algae puck once every 4 or 5 days.
I would try people shrimp, mussels or clams. Freeze dried krill isn't very good for them anyways.
Good point. It is good to get them started on eating, but it has little nutritional value.
feeding fish isn't the same as shrimp or mussels. You can try soaking food in garlic though
My GSP loves bloodworms, live brine shrimp (get at LFS- almost all carnivores love them- they will chase them around the tank), thawed squid, mussels, and thawed krill. But the thing he likes the best is snails. Try a local gardening shop that does ponds- they may have snails (usually small ones). As for parasites, I treated my with PraziPro and it worked great.
