where to buy afordable Freshwater Mullosks as food for Puffers?
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Pufferpunk;4713022; said:
Hope that you are right! I bought five of them this summer and still have four left. I have them in four seperate tanks (one 5 gallon & three 10 gallon). They have all molted several times and are all well over 4" now! When do they start to "clone" themselves?
I put 3 baby longneck clams into the tank and neither the GSP or emerald puffer have so much as sniffed them. The flounder on the other hand are going nuts over the clams. Too bad they can't seem to crack the shell!
I must have gotten ripped off on the "marbled crayfish" that I bought this summer. According to the link above it say's they should not get > 2.5". All mine have gone from <2" this summer to >4" now.
I made sure that I kept them in seperate tanks to assure "cloning" rather then "breeding" if they were indeed some other species.
I must have gotten ripped off on the "marbled crayfish" that I bought this summer. According to the link above it say's they should not get > 2.5". All mine have gone from <2" this summer to >4" now.
I made sure that I kept them in seperate tanks to assure "cloning" rather then "breeding" if they were indeed some other species.
screaminleeman;4724609; said:
Yeah, there's no way they should get that big. What colour are they? My biggest get a tint of blue (I think from high protein foods I feed them), but stay under 3" for sure. I've had one that just came out of hiding with a bunch of babies and another that just went into hiding. They hide from anywhere between 22-42 days when cloning. Mine don't seem to eat during this period either....
Pufferpunk;4724769; said:
Not yet, I was thinking that it may be easier to drill a hole through the shell to minimize the mussel to the clam. I am an extreme cram cracker when fishing back bays and man do they make a mess when you wack them with a hammer. I am also worried about my flounders just devouring the clams if the access to the meat is too large.
The flounders have literally swarmed the clams since I put them in and have not stopped trying to eat them yet.
Can't blame the flounders for that! I think if the puffers have easier access, they might be more apt to attack the meat.
geronimo69;4724825; said:Yeah, there's no way they should get that big. What colour are they? My biggest get a tint of blue (I think from high protein foods I feed them), but stay under 3" for sure. I've had one that just came out of hiding with a bunch of babies and another that just went into hiding. They hide from anywhere between 22-42 days when cloning. Mine don't seem to eat during this period either....
I'll post pictures when I get home this evening. They look exactly like the pictures of the marbled crayfish on the internet though.
The have molted several times each and there is still no change from their original color and marbled pattern.
On a sidenote, I did place one of the largest crayfish that I grabbed out of my farm pond, that was a little too large for cichlid chow at the time, into an aquarium as a pet. It was a brown mudbug but molted twice each time turning a deeper shade of turquoise. It decided the aquarium was too confined (20G long) so checked out when it reached around 6" a couple months ago and I still have not seen it since!
