Puffer Problem Solved/New Problem...FAIL!

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Pazzoman

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Hey guys,

I got my puffer to chow down on ghost shrimp FINALLY he ate something for the past week. I have two new problems:

One:

Now how do I persuade the puffer in eating frozen foods.....garlic extreme i heard about it?



While i was at a petland they had an incredible Voltains lionfish (Black) for $30! I purchased him and the 20 gallon quarantine is divided in two. Before I purchased the lion I heard all he has been eating is live guppies (pissed me off). The lion has been at the store for a week the guy said.

Second:

The lion seem to enjoy ghost shrimp very well.....but I'd like him and the puffer to be on a diet of frozen/ fresh foods (not live).

It's a hassel going back and forth to get live foods....also ghost shrimp is 25 cents PER SHIMP!

Please Help
 
It is a really bad idea to add a 2nd fish into /QT. You have now opened the puffer to possible pathogens the lion may have. Also, it is a bad idea to house them together in your main tank. Puffers can't resist--they love to nip at flowing fins I have seen puffers get severely stung by lions. I'd return the lionfish.

http://www.**************.com/forum/library/feeding/problems-feeding-your-puffer/
http://www.**************.com/forum/library/feeding/feedingproblems/
 
......oh i see...guessing lessons learned. I have the quarantine divided at least....my cousin said he'll take the puffer. So before I give him the puffer just want to make sure it will at least eat some frozen foods.....
 
I'm full of em:
http://www.**************.com/forum/library/misc/ghostshrimp/
Don't forget--GS have basically no nutrition, unless gut-loaded.
 
dont mean to be rude....thier really isn't much about breeding them...but I did read the info actually it is quiet useful.
 
Pyramid_Party;4489554; said:
Cherry shrimp are your best bet when breeding shrimp.
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Sorry, it's the only article I know of. No offence taken :)
 
I would go with mysids... that way easier to transfer to frozen... breeding info on them is almost impossible to find because they are so "canabalistic" as in the eat their young quickly. But that is easily delt with as long as you have a few buckets to use as brood tanks, What you want to do, is make a screen only slitely smaller then the adults (so they cant swim through) then after you know they have spawned... (thats the tricky part you could just do it at random) you pull the screan out, with all the adults in it, and place it in the next bucket, leaving only the young behind, eventualy the young get big, and you run them through that same screan and the large adults are again separated from the young. Repeat as required lol. oh and this method alows you to feed nupli to your tank for starting a culture in the tank as well as feeding smaller fish/corals (Not as useful to you but others mite find it handy).
 
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