My new puffer...

[joojoo]

Lol, he must have been laughing at you too much to think about eating :b. Freeze dried krill usually works because the smell is so potent. Grab a garlic clove out of the fridge, crush it, and rub another piece of food on it, people have good luck with garlic enticing fish.

 

[stdreb27]

my dogface loves oysters. he will hit it before it touches the botton.

 

[titan]

If you try the pellets, and it doesn't work; you'll need something live or really stinky.....Get some fresh Octopus from a sea-food store; fresh meaning-> on ice already thawed. Cut the tentacles off the Octo and soak them in seachem's garlic guard. I personally don't feed the head to fish; it's mushy and messy. Attempt to feed your puffer with a feedin stick, and hope for the best. Some fish never eat regardless of what's offered...sad :notsure:
Was it eating at the LFS? And did you see it?
Any fish I personally buy over $100; must be eating

 

[gmax111]

Originally Posted by Titan
If you try the pellets, and it doesn't work; you'll need something live or really stinky.....Get some fresh Octopus from a sea-food store; fresh meaning-> on ice already thawed. Cut the tentacles off the Octo and soak them in seachem's garlic guard. I personally don't feed the head to fish; it's mushy and messy. Attempt to feed your puffer with a feedin stick, and hope for the best. Some fish never eat regardless of what's offered...sad :notsure:
Was it eating at the LFS? And did you see it?
Any fish I personally buy over $100; must be eating

Yeah he must have been eating because he was in thier QT for about a month... By the time i said i wanted to see him eat he was in a bucket ready to go home.. Im sure he was eating tho...

 

[gmax111]

got him to eat... I got some live ghost shrimp and tied them to the end of a feeding stick soon as i put it into the water he came darting across the tank and grabbed it up... then i was able to just hold the shrimp in my hand until he came over and he would snatch it out of my hand... Now i just have to ween him onto frozen krill...

:cheer: :happyfish

 

[gmax111]

Here is some more pictures... the white specks on him is just sand...

 

[joojoo]

Awesome! Good ol' Ghost Shrimp.

 

[stdreb27]

that is awesome. I so happy for you. I love you black dogface. he is beautiful.

 

[leftyblite]

I have only one word for this fish. AWESOME. If I didn't already have a porc puffer, i would possiblly consider, but there is no way Spike is going anywhere.