What do green spotted puffer fish eat?

Answer 1

"The Green Whitespotted Puffer is an omnivore, eating a wide variety of marine life, such as fleshy, calcareous, or coralline algae, mollusks, tunicates, sponges, corals, zoanthids, crabs, shrimps, tube worms and echinoderms, as well as detritus. In captivity it can be fed a diet of various carnivore fares, such as fresh chopped or frozen shrimp, crab, squid, clams, fish, and it will sometimes eat preparations suitable for herbivores."

"Recommended Diet. Freeze dried blood worms and freeze dried shrimps or krill, plus frozen and live brine shrimp, live Ghost Shrimp, and an occasional treat of a few live Black Worms.
Puffers have uniquely powerful beaks, that they use to crack open snail shells, and puffers love to eat small aquatic snails such as rams horn snails. Puffers will also eat Crabs and Shrimp."

"Care and feeding:
The Spotted Green Puffers are omnivores, though a large part of their diet is meaty foods. In their natural environment they will eat various invertebrates, crustaceans and mollusks, but they also eat some vegetation.They are not difficult to feed as they will usually eat a variety of flake, frozen, and live foods including shrimp, ghost shrimp (gut-loaded), bloodworms, freeze-dried krill, crabs, brine shrimp, and snails.
Puffers have strong teeth that grow throughout their lives, so are prone to overgrown teeth. Offer hard shelled live food often to keep the teeth worn down. Feeding snails daily will help to wear down the teeth. If the teeth get too long, they will be unable to eat, requiring the owner to clip the teeth."

Answer 2

I have always wanted one so have done a lot of reseach on it. They will eat smaller feeder fish and live foods such as brine shrimp, tetras, fry, live; frozen; or freeze-dried blood worms, most worms, and most shrimp. Also slices of zucchini, peas, lettuce, spinach, cucuimber, and other leafy vegetables. Don't forget to feed normal fish flakes for a complete diet. You can keep any fish that isnt less then half the size of the green puffer fish with it. If its less then half the size then it will probably eat it.

Answer 3

They're carnivorous and have fused teeth which form a break which they use for crushing food. The 'beak' grows throughout their life, and if it becomes overgrown it can prevent them from eating correctly and their health will deteriorate.

Because of this they need a diet which will provide adequate wear on their teeth. The diet should largely be comprised of mollusks and crusteaceans: ramhorn snails, mussels, clams, crabs, crayfish, krill, mysis shrimp, prawn, shrimp in shell, shrimp tails, etc. For treats they'll eat bloodworms and brineshrimp and maybe even flakes.

They're aggressive and, as I mentioned, carnivorous, so they'll attempt to eat smaller less aggressive fish.

Answer 4

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