livebearer_breeder Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 I have some Dwarf freshwater puffers and am curious if anyone knows if they will eat big apple snails? they love normal snails but i can't get enough, was wondering if a big apple snail would feed them for a time :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 If the snails are larger than the puffer then no. The puffer may injure or kill it, but not eat. Vice versa the snail might eat the puffer if large enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 I am not sure, I feed my puffers ramshorn snails, they love them. Funny thing that I noticed is that if I put small ones in with bigger ones, they prefer the bigger ones to the small ones. They climb almost completely inside the shell once they killed the snails to try and get every bite out, so the big snails die first and they manage to empty them out so much that the shell floats to the top, where as with the smaller ramshorn snails they can't get everything out and I need to either squish them or remove them from the tank. Stay away from any unicornhorn like snails, they hurt their little teeth, not good for puffers. I should add that a big ramshorn is about the size of a 20c coin so that is still small but big for them cause they are so small. I will also add that I bought 30 ramshorns off someone on trademe and chucked them in my main tank where they are breeding and supplying food for my puffers, they are cute looking so it does not bother me to have them in my tank :thup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 I just went to the dwarf puffers forum and did a search for apple snails. It came up that big ones are not good food and can even withstand the occasional nip from the puffers, but the little ones are great for them, so its actually a good snail to breed right in the tank with them. I can't do that with my ramshorn because even my biggest one is still small enough to be a snack :lol: Here is the link if you wanna snoop around and get info http://dwarfpuffers.com/forum/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted July 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2011 Sweet, just stick with newly hatched BBS, white worms and snails, hopefully thats enough, they will not eat anything not live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted July 1, 2011 Report Share Posted July 1, 2011 Bloodworms are my puffer's staple diet, the snails are a treat. I buy frozen bloodworms, then I take a small plate and poor a little garlic guard in it, I use my tweezers to move the frozen bloodworms around in the garlic until the worms start coming loose from the frozen block and then I feed them to my puffers by wiggling them infront of them. They love it and usually fill their tummies super big full of them. Puffers are known to get intestinal problems so the garlic guard helps out with preventing that as well. The left over bloodworms, not usually a lot goes to my main tank and helps fight intestinal probs that side too. I really suggest you try and feed bloodworms as well, as its mostly their staple food Have a look around here http://www.dwarfpuffers.com/ you will learn lots of interesting things about your little puffers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted July 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 They just don't want anything that isn't live, wont take anything frozen. Where do you get garlic guard? They are fat and healthy from the variety of live foods i give them, now in there own tank, awesome little fish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/detail/view/seachem-garlic-guard-250ml/m/943/ I buy the big bottle like the one in the link from Hollywoods. The smaller bottle does not last as long and its quite a drive for me there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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