I read that GSP will eat silversides, i bought a pack of them frozen, but i cannot get my fish to eat them they will only eat frozen bloodworms...any ideas? i've broken them up, put one in there whole, got it to float with the current to look alive....i want them to eat something other than just bloodworms, it can't be that healthy only eating one food...
Trying to get puffers to eat frozen fish
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My GSPs would never eat then either. Shrimp,crab in the shell, muscles, clams, crickets, crayfish, and gut loaded ghost shrimp. These are all foods my GSPs loved.
were they alive?OscarRobinson;1726365; said:
I'm weird i cannot put live things for them to eat in the tank, i can handle frozen/already dead...
Those bloodworms that are now frozen in your gsp's belly were once wiggling not too long ago its not bad its just like stepping on a ant...drop some crickets in there, chop some squid up, use live brine shrimp too.
this i know is going to sound dumb, but do they care about the size, are they intimidated by something bigger than them? lol poor things don't stand a chance living with me
I would make the pieces of silver side as small as possible I know they are whole from what I've heard they are more of a crustacean eater.
Market shrimp work well, as well as snails. You can usually get the snails for free also. Go to your lfs, and ask them if you can pull the little nuisance snails from their tanks for them, most of the time, they'll let you, or have an employee that they don't like do it for you. Loads of food for the puffers for free. They need to have some sort of shells in their diet tho, as their beaks will never stop growing and they need to be filed down.