Mombu puffer?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
I normally feed them market prawns as a staple, ghost shrimp occasionally. I feed big fat jumbo sized mealworms quite regularly too as their high in carotene and proteins. Is it fine to feed them mealworms on a regular basis?
 
Exactly.
 
I grew the snails I fed to the Mbu - would just pull a plant covered in little snails and plant it in the puffer tank, and the Mbu would spend hours searching out all the snails and picking them off one by one. He did eat the snails faster than I could grow them tho!

I am thinking I can do the snail tank again and also get fresh frozen prawns from my butcher. That and clams - they have live clams and mussels at my butcher.

Are the concerns about parasites the same with the butcher's clams and mussels? If I have home grown snails do I need to worry?

Thanks!
 
You should freeze the clams, etc (not your snails) & defrost as needed, in cool vitamin water.
 
Do you have an extra 1,000g tank laying around?
 
Sure is!
http://www.**************.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=150
http://www.**************.com/forum/library/puffers-in-focus/mbuforyou/
 
Yeah. that is a sad story. I'm MAD:irked:!

Pufferpunk;1301449; said:
Sure is!
http://www.**************.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=150
http://www.**************.com/forum/library/puffers-in-focus/mbuforyou/
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yourockit;1301517; said:
Yeah. that is a sad story. she is pretty dumb for doing that to her fish. there are no excuses. it's pretty obvious that the tank is too small when your fish cant turn easily. I'm MAD:irked:!
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The person that wrote that article has 50 years of pufferkeeping experience. No dummy, just more the norm when keeping these monsters. Someone has to note their mistakes, so others will learn.

People think all fish need are turning room & they will be fine. What they don't take into consideration is the huge amounts of waste they produce & food they expel thru their gills that add waste to the tank. As per my sig, they need a lot of dilution!
 
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