Porcupine Puffer food
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christian
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COMBS I ALSO HAVE A PORKY PUFFER, USUALLY I FEED HIM EVERY OTHER DAY.HE LOVES LIVE GOLD FISH AND SILVERSIDES
Originally posted by combs:
my parents have a porcupine puffer that they feed live guppies. how much should they feed it every day? what's the best way to treat ick too? should we get a cleaner wrasse to keep in there?
Originally posted by combs:
my parents have a porcupine puffer that they feed live guppies. how much should they feed it every day? what's the best way to treat ick too? should we get a cleaner wrasse to keep in there?
rj
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Forget the Cleaner Wrasse, doomed to die in an aquarium. Also try to limit the amount of live food you feed your puffers. While they might like it, it is certainly not the healthiest diet for them. Stick to the krill, silversides, squid, other nice chunky frozen food. This will greatly improve the diet of the puffers.
karlas
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be careful feeding swf food like guppies and goldfish (fwf) as food over time this can end up causing liver disease in puffers and lions which will eventually kill them. they should be fed sw feeder fish or transferred over to frozen foods squid, clam, shrimp. also with feeder gold fish there is also a chance of introducing disease in the aquarium. because of all the goldfish that they cram into tanks at the lfs it increases their chances of becoming diseased or infected with parasites
bluto
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I feed mine krill soaked in zoe, selcon, or garlic (alternated) and he loves it (it's a good thing he can't get out of the tank, because otherwise he'd follow me all over the house).
With regard to the cleaner wrasse's, from what I've read there's another issue aside from their propensity to die/starve in captivity. I've heard the harvesting of this species in any quantity has a significant, negative impact on the reef ecosystems from which they were taken.
I'm not an expert...but if you have a species that "usually" doesn't do well in captivity, and possibly hurts the delicate reef ecosystem if removed...why not just use a cleaner shrimp or goby instead???
Bluto
With regard to the cleaner wrasse's, from what I've read there's another issue aside from their propensity to die/starve in captivity. I've heard the harvesting of this species in any quantity has a significant, negative impact on the reef ecosystems from which they were taken.
I'm not an expert...but if you have a species that "usually" doesn't do well in captivity, and possibly hurts the delicate reef ecosystem if removed...why not just use a cleaner shrimp or goby instead???
Bluto