What should I feed my porcupine puffer?

[sixers3]

I got a porcupine puffer recently and the LFS recommended frozen krill and frozen food for triggers and wrasses. He loves the krill, but spits out the trigger food. What else can i feed him? I tried some prime reef flake and he will take some of that, but seems to spit everything out, sometimes even the krill.
Please let me know your food recommendations.
Thanks.

 

[usinkit]

Try scallops and shrimp. Soaking them in garlic will help intice the fish to eat it.

 

[surfinusa]

he will eat whole shrimps and snails and also hermits and how big is your tank and how big is the puffer :happyfish

 

[v-lioness]

I feel it is very important to feed a variety of foods, the Foods I offer my fish include Mussels, Octo, Squid, Mahi Mahi, Crab, Raw Shrimp, Nori, fresh frozen Peas & broccoli from the grocery store. I also feed Mysis, Marine Cuisine, Silversides, frozen Sand Eels, Formula I & II along with Spectrum pellets & Cyclopezee from the LFS. I feed 2-3 times per day, I soak all my foods in Vitamins almost daily & Garlic every once in a while.
One thing that my puffer does is eat the Fresh Frozen Peas, and any algae in the tank. My triggers eat greens daily, I alternate my foods for the fish so if I feed greens the next meal will be meaty foods than pellets and so on.
Hope this helps,
Kaye

 

[sixers3]

Does your puffer spit out food and then take it back in? Is this a sign the food pieces are too big?
My puffer is fairly small, approximately 3 inches long.
I have hermits in the tank, but he only nips at them, but never eats them. I've tried algae sheets, but he didn't seem to want them.

 

[v-lioness]

Mine eats that way as well, Puffers are messy eaters, I have tried smaller pieces but it only wants the larger ones. You can try smaller chunks and see if yours will take them.
Kaye