I added a Porcupine Puffer to my aggresive tank 1 week ago. I can't get him to eat frozen food at all. I have tried squid, krill and silversides. When I added two live minows he ate them. I heard feeding freshwater to saltwater is unhealthy, but even using tongs tomake the siversides look alive, no luck. Is it bad to feed him live food? If so any suggestions? He is starting to eye the other fish as food.
Porcupine Puffer
- Thread starter carribear
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It's fine. Don't just make it the staple diet. Offer different things try some market shrimp. See if he goes for it.
The only real way of getting a fish to eat... especially since you just got it is to be patient. Let him starve a bit, then he will come around and start eating.
The only real way of getting a fish to eat... especially since you just got it is to be patient. Let him starve a bit, then he will come around and start eating.
Well depending on what size of a tank you have and what else is with him....I know that puffers can easily pretty much pout and not eat if they aren't happy. But as somthing that isnt done all the time FW to SW should be fine.
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No problem!....My FW puffer had to be pretty much starved out till he would start eating freeze dried krill, Puffers have SOO much personality! IE. They can be SUCH brats!LOL
Good luck! And keep us up dated as to how it is going!
Good luck! And keep us up dated as to how it is going!
Gatotsu brings up a very relevant point, realistically you'd be struggling to house any of those fish healthily in a tank that size (for the long term)
Yes, long term you will need at LEAST a 200 gallon tank for all them! Make sure the Niger isn't harrassing the puffer causing him not to eat. I would try at all costs NOT to feed fw fish to sw. It is the equivalent to eating at McDonalds every day, they can and do get fatty liver disease because fw fish have much greater fat percentage than sw so it accumulates in the liver.
I would go to your local grocery store and get some fresh/frozen shrimp, scallops, crab meat and try those. Those he should not be able to resist
! Once you get him eating and happy he will be willing to try other foods. What frozen foods have you tried on him? Anyway hope this helps and good luck!
I would go to your local grocery store and get some fresh/frozen shrimp, scallops, crab meat and try those. Those he should not be able to resist
! Once you get him eating and happy he will be willing to try other foods. What frozen foods have you tried on him? Anyway hope this helps and good luck!