My Green Spotted Pufferfish won't eat.....?

Question

I just bought a Green Spotted Pufferfish, I love him, but I can't get him to eat anything.....


help!

Answer 1

What have you tried? Puffers will not eat flakes... they need live or frozen foods... Snails are one of the most important aspects of a Puffer's diet (shells wear down the beak, allowing the Puffers to continue eating). Give your Puffer live snails twice a week, and either live Ghost Shrimp or live blackworms once a week, with the majority of the food coming from daily frozen bloodworms or brineshrimp... Email me if you have any questions.

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Answer 2

Apple snails are pets, no longer nutrition. right here is what you do, bypass to your community Petstore, attempt to evade petco and petsmart, and ask they people in fish section for pond snails. those are small snails arrive in Petstores and aquariums by potential of living on stay vegetation in Petstore then as quickly as the plant is offered so are the snails. besides, if the individuals that paintings there say they have them purchase a pair or 2. Then drop them into your aquarium. in the journey that your water is sturdy they could breed like loopy and your puffer could consume them.Becarful nonetheless, they are able to rather over populate aquarium and brake filters.

Answer 3

I used to have a puffer called Tiny, so named because he wasn't that small.When he was small he ate frozen cockles, muscles and lance fish, his jaws were not strong enough to break the shells until he grew bigger but then he would readily take cockles and muscles in shells out of my fingers.
Try tempting him with cockles out of your fingers, if you move your hand around in front of him he should try chasing it as he would in the wild, do not feed brine shrimp as it is too small and will not interest him.

Answer 4

What have you tried feeding it? Are you housing it in freshwater, brackish, or full saltwater?


From wetwebmedia:

"One of the most difficult aspects of keeping these special fish is their diet. All puffers are predatory fish and need hard-shelled, meaty foods to keep their teeth trimmed. Like rabbits, their teeth grow constantly and can overgrow enough to cause starvation in the fish. Puffers eat crustaceans in the wild. Foods for smaller puffers are frozen/freeze-dried krill/plankton, gut-loaded ghost shrimp, glass worms, crickets, worms and small snails (the size of their eye). Snails are an essential food to a puffer’s diet, especially when small. Many serious puffer keepers breed their own snails. As your puffer gets larger, there are many more crunchy foods for them to eat. Larger GSPs will eat cut-up pieces of scallops, shrimp, crab legs, whole mussels, clams, oysters, squid, lobster and crayfish. Mine love to chase live crayfish, fiddler crabs and gut-loaded ghost shrimp. I gut-load (pre-feed) my live food with algae wafers, so my puffers get their veggies."

http://wetwebmedia.com/BrackishSubWebIndex/gspsart.htm

Answer 5

what have u given him to eat ?? puffer usually will not accept flake food
best thing is to feed them frozen or live brine shrimp