GSP Junk Food Junkie

[GermanRam]

I bought the GSP Dec.4, 09 I have pulled up the list of food that is on the puffer forum site to find food that that is best for him.
He was eating flakes when I got him.
This is what he won't eat....omega one shrimp pellets, wardley cichilid floating pellets, omega one tubiflex worms. He will nip at broken up krill. He will still eat some flake.
I put tailless market shrimp on a holder and he don't touch it. There in six ghost shrimp in the tank and have been for months. won't touch snails.
Now he loves frozen blood worms and fresh night crawler worms! He will pig on the crawlers.
I know he needs hard food to keep his beak in check. So what can I do? Have you had this happen to you with a GSP?

 

[Fat Homer]

Trick is to be patient... especially with puffers, not to mention that most won't eat normal fish food... but one trick you could try is to hold the food on tweezers and see if your GSP will take any of the food... if after everything else fails, one method to get your puffers to at least TRY a new food, is to get a clove of FRESH garlic, crush it up and then drop the GSP's food in there and roll it around..

The smell of the garlic should entice your puffer to take a bite of the food your offering, and hopefully get him onto new foods...

Lastly, if you can't get your GSP eating Snails, don't worry, get some frozen mussels still on the shell, defrost it, and leave a little bit of the meat on the shell, then while your puffer is trying to get the meat off the shell, it should also scrape its beak enough to help keep it warn down...

 

[jus85411]

lol didnt see this guys reply in this thread until after i replied in the other

 

[GermanRam]

Thanks for the info