what are some good foods for a porcupine puffer fish?
2006-08-09 09:59:31 · 7 answers · asked by god 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Lots of crustaceans and mollusks (example, clams, snails, crabs, shrimp, mussels, krill, crayfish, shellfish, etc).
They need hard food to keep their evergrowing teeth worn down.
Any pet crustaceans or mollusks in the same tank as your puffer, will probably get eaten.
2006-08-09 19:50:38 · answer #1 · answered by Kay B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about a porcupine puffer fish but, I have a green-spotted puffer fish & they eat freeze dried shrimp & blood worms.
You can find both of these at most stores, including Wal-Mart, where they sell the fish food & supplies.
2006-08-09 10:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
infant dwarf puffers have tooth so as that they are frequently fed defrosted bloodworms, stay blackworms, stay brine shrimp, defrosted brine shrimp, stay daphnia, stay scuds/gammarus/amphipods, pond of ramshorn snails. stay fruit fly maggots. some hit upon how you may kill ghost shrimp yet they could't many times eat the completed body so that you'll might want to eliminate the leftovers previously they began to rot contained in the tank. maximum dps received't eat dried fish meals and it can lead them to constipated (and dps do not eat peas). Dps ought to correctly be a lot less aggressive then maximum different puffers yet they nevertheless must be aggressive. quite in the route of fish with lengthy fins like angelfish and gouramis. if your fish commence turning up with little chunks lacking from their fins, that is the dps. they'll proceed to nip away on the fins till the fish dies from an infection. no longer a good idea to shop dps with both gouramis or angelfish. And if it appears that evidently one is male and the different female, at the same time as they mature and go into breeding mode, they'll attempt to eliminate some thing that threatens their eggs and ought to terrorize your different fish. yet another issues is that dps are slow eaters so maximum different fish will eat each and every of the nutrition previously the dps have a probability.
2016-11-29 19:05:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.marineaquariumadvice.com/porcupine-puffer-fish-puffers.html
2006-08-09 10:04:02 · answer #4 · answered by g-day mate 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have green-spotted puffer that is about 2'' long.
Feed them life food, or frosen food. They won't eat anything that's dry.
Life tubiflex worms. Mysis shrimp (frozen). Small river snails.
2006-08-09 12:55:21 · answer #5 · answered by Snowflake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything that is based on crustaceans or shellfish is a good diet, such as frozen krill or other foods of that nature. They will accept most prepared foods eventually.
2006-08-09 10:06:50 · answer #6 · answered by rubentolon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i feed mine frozen mysid shrimp
2006-08-09 16:55:42 · answer #7 · answered by retrac_enyaw03 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋