Homemade puffer fish food

[The Puff Father]

Is there any way you can make your own fish food that the puffer fish would eat? I know that they need some snails to eat to wear down their teeth and that they like frozen seafood such as shrimp, but I would think a constant diet of just meat would not give them all the nutrition they need.

If you know of a good one please post it here :)

[Honda12]

If you want to give it some extra vitamins or somthing just take shrimp or some other food that you feed it and just stuff it with a high quality pellet food. That is what I do with my rays every so often. They are too greedy at feeding time to know the difference.

[TankBuster]

I feed my puffer Shrimp,krill,earthworms,and algea wafers. He loves algea wafers. Also,soak the food in a little bit of garlic extreme, it does wonders for their slime coat and all around health. the algea wafers are as close to non meat as I can find. Also, if you can stand the violence, small crayfish are perfect for their teeth. Check out his colors.


http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/Tankbusters/puffer1.jpg
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/Tankbusters/puffer4.jpg

[Honda12]

I feed my puffer Shrimp,krill,earthworms,and algea wafers. He loves algea wafers. Also,soak the food in a little bit of garlic extreme, it does wonders for their slime coat and all around health. the algea wafers are as close to non meat as I can find. Also, if you can stand the violence, small crayfish are perfect for their teeth. Check out his colors.


http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/Tankbusters/puffer1.jpg
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/Tankbusters/puffer4.jpg


Hey Tankbuster, you ever find out what sp. he is yet?

[TankBuster]

what kind do you have? Got a pic?

[TankBuster]

Honda12, h3e is a Takifugu Obscurus. Wes figured it out.

[The Puff Father]

is there any homemade food that you can make though? I kind of like the idea of just breaking off a piece of homemade food and feeding it to them with all the stuff in there already.

[dysfunctionaljd]

My south american puffer loves to eat frozen peas, all i do is cut them in half and remove the shell. One small bag has lasts me 6 months and is still over half full. I only give them every now and then, not as a staple though.

[TankBuster]

Interesting, I need to try that.:thumbsup:

[Unxpekted]

I make my own food for my saltwater tank, which up until recently contained a puffer. I use a variety of fresh seafood, nori, garlic and a bunch of vitamin supplements. I use the blender -- My Wife usually takes about a week to talk to me again after I make a batch -- and blend it all up, put it in an ice-cube tray and freeze it. After it is frozen, I put the blocks into a ziplock baggy to keep the freezer-burn off it. I cut a cube in half and feed, pretty easy feeding once its made. Also ensures a proper diet on a regular basis. I do feed other foods to my fish, but this makes up the bulk of the food they get.

[The Puff Father]

yeah that's what I like about homemade food, you know what's going in there and you know the ingredients are fresh.