Pea Puffer Snails! Advise Please!

[Nikki77D]

Can anyone tell me what is the best kind of snail for the pea puffer to eat? I just got two puffers that are still young so they are litteraly pea size!

 

[nikkifro8994]

my dwarf puffer loves so munch on pond snails. I had about 25-30 in the tank when I bought him. He ate all of them in 3-4 days. I was really hoping they would last longer than that. Now I pull 2-3 out of another tank once or twice a week.

 

[Paradise3]

Crush up pest snails & pond snails. They have to be no bigger than the puffers eyes.

 

[Nikki77D]

Thanks for the info! But I don't have another tank to keep snails in, and I don't want to over feed the puffers. what should I do?

 

[Paradise3]

Thanks for the info! But I don't have another tank to keep snails in, and I don't want to over feed the puffers.

what should I do?

 
If the snail is too big for the puffer to eat her may let them live with him. However, some puffers will nip at the eyes and bodies of the snails.

 

[Nikki77D]

Okay I will pick up some tiny pnd snails. The aquarium place I bought the puffers at said I can throw a couple of snails in the tank and they will multiply and the puffers will eat them as the populate, but I won't have to keep adding snails. Is this true? Or will it cause over feeding?

 

[Paradise3]

Okay I will pick up some tiny pnd snails. The aquarium place I bought the puffers at said I can throw a couple of snails in the tank and they will multiply and the puffers will eat them as the populate, but I won't have to keep adding snails. Is this true? Or will it cause over feeding?

 
That's true as long as yours doesn't like eating the heads off the snails

 

[Nikki77D]

Okay lol thanks for the answers!

 

[nikkifro8994]

Okay I will pick up some tiny pnd snails. The aquarium place I bought the puffers at said I can throw a couple of snails in the tank and they will multiply and the puffers will eat them as the populate, but I won't have to keep adding snails. Is this true? Or will it cause over feeding?

 
That's what I wanted to happen with my tank, but my puffer is a little piggie. He eats the shrimp pellets that I put in after I've already fed him a bunch of bloodworms. If it looks like food, he'll eat it.