when a puffer fish puffs up does it die?

Question

i wanted to buy a puffer fish for my aquarium and i was also wondering what they eat

Answer 1

No, unless it's the last act before being eaten. There are many types of puffer fish, and they all eat different things.

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Quoting the source: "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."

Answer 2

Puffer Fish Puffing

Answer 3

A varied diet high in protein is healthiest for a puffer. A healthy puffer should be active, curious, and have a nice round jolly belly! Their diet consists mainly of mollusks and crustaceans. There are many foods that your puffer may accept, including frozen krill, crab, prawn, squid, clam, mussel, cockle, bloodworms and brine shrimp. If you have a large puffer and you attempt to feed him baby or even adult brine shrimp, he may not be interested in such small food. The same applies when trying to feed a large piece of food to a small puffer. Instead, cut the food down to size. Many species of puffer will not take flake or dried food, though on occasion they will.

Puffers will often mangle or eat plants. They often ruin plants as they are attempting to remove snails from them. An exception however is the Dwarf Fresh Water Puffer (T. travancorius), who tends to be well behaved in a planted tank.


Puffers have a “beak” that is formed by two “teeth” above and two below, which are “fused together”. In fact, the word Tetraodontidae means "four teeth". It is important that you provide your puffer with hard items, with which to keep its’ teeth nicely trimmed down. Such items that your puffer can bite and chew on are harder foods (e.g. snails), aquarium-safe terra cotta pots, non-pH-altering driftwood and cuttle bone. The shell of the Malaysian Trumpet snail may be too hard for a puffer's beak and should be avoided. Pond and Ramshorn snails work nicely though.

Puffing is a way of surviving for them, they do not die when they do so.

Answer 4

Hence the name, all puffer fish do puff up. But its terribly stressful to them to do so. They only puff up when they are being attacked or harrassed by other fish (or people). It says, "I'm bigger than you so don't mess with me". Puffers can be very delicate and tend to get sick easily, making them puff up on purpose can shorten their life considerably.

Answer 5

No it does not. When puffer fish puff up, it means that they feel hreatened or scared. As for what they eat, it depends on what type of puffer fish you want.

Answer 6

Puffer fish dont die when they puff up. It is simply a defence mecanism. When they feel threatened they will puff up to make themselves seem biger to get the enemy to leave them alone. I believe they eat regular salt water fish food that you can get at the pet store. Ask about it when you go to get one.

Answer 7

no A puffer fish puffs up because it willl look big for it's enimies wont eat him

Answer 8

They eat tropical fish food that you can get at the pet store. When they puff up, they are only showing their defense mechanism which is all they have to defend themselves from other fish.

Answer 9

puffer fish puff up thats y they r called puffer fish hello

Answer 10

Nope, they are made to do that. I don't know what you would feed it but I do know that they eat smaller fish in the wild.