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Thank you!Wow!! Stunning!!
Now.... just as fish keeper to fish keeper tell me everything!! Heater, filter, rocks, plants, lighting, etc. etc.!!
I can’t wait to hear back from you!! Just set it up like this....
Heater:
Filter:
Rocks:
Plants:
Substrait:
Lighting:
Etc. etc.
(You don’t have to do it, but I think it would be fun! )
They are digging their frozen blood worms. 2 out of 4 also will snack on some freeze dried blood worms.Enjoy the Dwarf buffers, but keep in mind that they can be quite hard to feed.
https://meethepet.com/dwarf-puffer-fish-carinotetraodon-travancoricus/
They don't do great on flakes or granulas.
They are digging their frozen blood worms. 2 out of 4 also will snack on some freeze dried blood worms.
3/4 are picking at live snails. 1 is just being a bugger about eating anything. I have a baby brine shrimp kit on order.
The smallest dude stuffs his face til it concerns me he might actually pop lol. His belly gets about a third the size of his body and it looks scary. The others snack til full. He snacks til he keeps spitting out bloodworms - and then keeps going.
They are well fed.
Cool!! Thanks for sharing!! Do you have the gosht shrimp yet?
Edit: And wont the pea puffers eat the ghost shrimp?
A couple comments on food/feeding here. Bloodworms are not a good staple food and should only be fed once a week as a treat. This refers to the fresh frozen bloodworms. Freeze-dried are best not fed at all, but if they are (again only once a week) make sure you soak them thoroughly in a bit of tank water; feeding freeze-dried foods that are not completely soaked is dangerous, as the fish eat them and then the moisture swells the food up inside the fish, causing serious issues. This might be part of the "plumpness" you mention.
Froozen daphnia and shrimp would be good foods that can be fed more often than bloodworms. Snails of course are good not only as food but it serves to keep the puffers' "beaks" sharp so they can eat properly.