Puffer fish teeth

[rjlowery]

Recently purchased a leopard puffer. Found out that it requires some additional maintenance regarding its teeth. What is a good food to provide to ensure that his teeth don't grow too large?

 

[Jeff4777]

NLS pellets are good

 

[cougareyes]

I give my dogface clams on the half shell, I leave the shells on shrimp from the grocery store, I'm pretty sure he just swallows pellets whole, I wish he would chew.

 

[Jeff4777]

I give my dogface clams on the half shell, I leave the shells on shrimp from the grocery store, I'm pretty sure he just swallows pellets whole, I wish he would chew.

Try some bigger ones maybe? Haha. Yea the clams work good. Mine gets covered by baby nassarius snails to finish the left over scraps.

 

[ThRoewer]

Feed it snails.

 

[scooter31707]

shelled clams or shelled shrimp

 

[ThRoewer]

shelled clams or shelled shrimp

Not shelled (shelled = shell removed), but rather still in the shell.

 

[scooter31707]

good catch, that's what I meant. Thank you.

 

[allendehl]

Reviving old post since I'm considering a puffer (Leopard or Velentini, not sure). few questions:
- When feeding shrimps, how do you do it?...drop the whole thing in the tank?...wouldn't it cause lots of waste?
- Also, what kind of clams and where you get them?
- How often you feed them this stuff?
- How do you do it to target the Puffer so he gets the best of it w/o fighting for it with other fish?

Sorry if some of the questions are too basic, newbie here.

Thanks!

 

[olemiss reb]

I hand fed my Tobys frozen cubes of mysid. The ice seemed to keep the teeth trimmed down. They'd bite off their fill then use the rest to broadcast feed

 

[allendehl]

I hand fed my Tobys frozen cubes of mysid. The ice seemed to keep the teeth trimmed down. They'd bite off their fill then use the rest to broadcast feed

How do you do it to target feed them? Won't other fish come after the frozen cubes as well?...How they know to come when you want them to?

 

[olemiss reb]

I'd hold the cube in my fingers and the puffers would come chomp on it. No other fish would get near it while I was holding it. Probably wouldn't work in a tank with a bunch of aggressive feeders though.