so my GSP's are in fully marine water, would the little snails you find with freshwater plants still be fine for them? i have a separate tank for breeding my snails and i have tons of little ones running around in there. if they dont eat the snail right away, which is rare, would the snail still survive in the salt water? i dropped one in the other day but it didnt catch anyones attention on the way down and it kind of just hit bottom, then that question popped in my head. what do you guys think? they are like 3 inches long, nice and fat. should i move onto some other type of teeth trimming food now? or keep the snails in their diet still?
FW snails for fully saltwater GSP
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i would stay away from freshwater snail's at all cost's. You can get mollusk's at the grocery store or clam's for the puffer just make sure they aren't pre cooked or have any salt's or butter etc... and you'll achieve the desired goal of keeping that tooth in check on the puffer and the puffer in turn will be happy and healthy.
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yeah i did that once in a while with a crab or crayfish when it was fresh and brackish. figured they would play janitor and then dentist 
if i were to get the hermit crabs, once the puffers get them i should probably take the shells out right? so if theres anything left in the shell it doesnt rot in the water. pufferpunk, how do you have your puffers set up? high brackish if not fully salt i assume since you know everything you do about these guys, but do you have live rock and live sand in your tank? what kind of filtration(sump/refugium, or just hang on back filters)?
if i were to get the hermit crabs, once the puffers get them i should probably take the shells out right? so if theres anything left in the shell it doesnt rot in the water. pufferpunk, how do you have your puffers set up? high brackish if not fully salt i assume since you know everything you do about these guys, but do you have live rock and live sand in your tank? what kind of filtration(sump/refugium, or just hang on back filters)?jus85411;3270598; said:yeah i did that once in a while with a crab or crayfish when it was fresh and brackish. figured they would play janitor and then dentist
I'd also love to know if Pufferpunk uses carbon in his/her filters in the GSP tank... I've never heard whether or not it affects puffers.
LOL, I'm a her. By the time my GSPs were adults, they were in marine conditions. I added a HOB protein skimmer & removed the HOB box filter at that time. I eventually did add LR to that tank too & that's when I finally could back off from weekly 50% water changes a little bit. I spent a ton on $alt! A sump/fuge is aleways good, as it can help with nitrate, give you somewhere to place the skimmer & any chemical filtration you may want to add (carbon/Purigen). I never got around to changing out the crushed coral for live sand, before I realized the 55g they were in was getting too small for the pair, so I sadly rehomed them.
No need to remove the shells--more homes for the new "food".
By the time my GSPs were adults, they were in marine conditions. I added a HOB protein skimmer & removed the HOB box filter at that time. I eventually did add LR to that tank too & that's when I finally could back off from weekly 50% water changes a little bit. I spent a ton on $alt! A sump/fuge is aleways good, as it can help with nitrate, give you somewhere to place the skimmer & any chemical filtration you may want to add (carbon/Purigen). I never got around to changing out the crushed coral for live sand, before I realized the 55g they were in was getting too small for the pair, so I sadly rehomed them. No need to remove the shells--more homes for the new "food".