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    Posted: March 20 2015 at 8:27pm
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What hard shelled food are you feeding (and where do you get them from) for puffers? We have two different types, and want to make sure they are keeping their teeth at the right level.

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In general, any seafood medley from an Asian market is great.

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i feed my porky a mix of mysis krill mussel and sometimes he steals some silverside pieces from the moray haha
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Originally posted by Adam Blundell Adam Blundell wrote:

In general, any seafood medley from an Asian market is great.

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which actually files the teeth down?

Ive been feeding krill/mysis and brine.

do they need to break open clam shells or something to help file them?
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I was thinking that it's called a beak, a fused bony plate. It should wear as the fish chomps on rock and shells. Puffers in aquaria often eat snails and things like sponge growing on LR. Sometimes they chomp on hard coral. I have a brain coral skeleton with some stuff growing on it that your Puffer may like to chomp. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it, unless the beak grows to the point where it actually gets in the way of eating.

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I fed small freshwater snails to keep the beak on my longhorn filed down. He loved them!
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GOOD NEWS!!  I found food for my puffer.
 
 
Sundial snails.  The little bastards are in my reef tank.  I noticed they come out right after the lights are turned off.   Going hunting tonight.   The predator tank has nothing for the snails to eat, so i dont care if the survive in there.  They will feed the fish if they do :)
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well went on a hunt last night in the 40g tank.  Snagged about 20 sundials and dumped them in the big tank.  he wasnt all that interested but hopefully he will find them in the rocks and snag them
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