Number 8 Puffers

[Dave]

I have just got 2 number 8 puffers. Is it true they only eat live food? I have tried them on flake,tablet and tubafix (dried stuff). But they only seem to like Frozen blood worm.
If thats all they'll eat then will it do my other fish (Angels and catfish) any harm if they are fed with this every day?

 

[CFC]

Frozen bloodworm wont harm your fish provided you dont overfeed and you offer other foods as well so that they get a balanced diet,try the puffers with other small live foods such as daphnia,glassworm and brine shrimp your other fish should enjoy these too.

 

[Bradley]

Snails and young fish fry are good! srry, g2g

 

[Dave]

Ive tried daphnia and brineshrimp (frozen) but they don't seem interested. But I do have a Apple shell snail who they've paid a bit of attention too.

As for the other fish I feed them flake in the morning and Blood worm in the evening. What do you think? Is this ok?

 

[CFC]

Sounds fine although you should try to feed some live food at least once a week,your local fish shop should stock some.