They do but depending on how old/big their beaks are not fused/formed yet. They attack the foot/body of the snail not the shell like they do when older. Seemed to change about 6 months o so. I've had mine sinc it was about the size of a pea puffer.
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If you can upgrade your tank size like you said in your post I vote for a Dovii ( you can grow them out in a 125g for a while). I have never owned one before but watching videos and reading posts from members here and on Youtube they seem to be very interactive with their keepers as they get older. They are a a pretty awesome fish to behold for sure. GL
If you can upgrade your tank size like you said in your post I vote for a Dovii ( you can grow them out in a 125g for a while). I have never owned one before but watching videos and reading posts from members here and on Youtube they seem to be very interactive with their keepers as they get older. They are a a pretty awesome fish to behold for sure. GL
i have kept dovii, and a 125 might work for about a year, then an upgrade to a 300 gal or larger would b a proper size tank.
Mine outgrew a 150 gal in about a year.
In the shot above, they were just about to be moved to a 300.
Mine outgrew a 150 gal in about a year.
In the shot above, they were just about to be moved to a 300.
That's true. But do you really want the food to survive? I don't really like feeding live either but we are talking predators here as all fish technically are, but some more then others. Those others (puffers) have some very specific needs that can't always or at least easily be met by other means. I thought about dispatching my crayfish before freezing them and feeding the frozen ones but it's easier, quicker, less fuss to just feed the live ones, and I can gut load them prior to feeding so they get a good last meal and my puffer gets all the benefits of the gut contents. Gruesome yes, but it's an unfortunate fact.
Let me add many fish can and will survive and thrive on prepared foods. I'm currently feeding my fahaka mostly pellets. It's rare to get a puffer on pellets first off. Secondly, I don't know long term if they are hard enough to wear down it's teeth and provide all the stuff it needs for proper digestion. There is "talk" that the bits of shell they ingest helps in digestive motility, how true this is I don't know. Fortunately for me I started trying feeding pellets right away after I got it and it took to them very quickly. I feed pellets, crayfish and snails on a rotation. My crayfish stalled in breeding about 6 months ago, and my snail culture just crashed. I have other snails in other tanks but if I was only feeding those I'd be hurting.
Puffers evolved to eat invertebrates. The whole point of of their beaks are to crack open the shells of snails, clams, mussels etc. Maybe if you got a good colony of malaysian trumpet snails they could co exist somewhat, but if you put something like mystery snails in with a puffer they are going to be utterly annihilated.
