Freshwater Pufferfish: Tetraodon lineatus
Common names: Fahaka puffer, Lined puffer, Nile puffer Activity level: active/hunter Adult size: ~18 inches Min tank size: 120 gallons Temperature: 74-80 degrees F pH: 6.0-7.8 Diet: Crustaceans. While your Fahaka puffer is a baby-sub adult, you can offer them a regular diet of snails, shrimp, and a variety of frozen foods, like blood worms, and brine shrimp – you can also cut fish fillets into bite sized chunks. Once they reach adulthood, it will be necessary to purchase some of your food from the grocery store, like whole shrimp, crab legs, mussels, and clams. As an occasional treat, you can offer your puffer red wigglers, ghost shrimp, and other types of feeder insects – however, it is important to note that ghost [...]
Top 3 Hard Foods for Freshwater Pufferfish
It’s very important to offer your freshwater pufferfish a selection of hard, crunchy foods on a regular basis so that you don’t end up having fish problems with an overgrown beak. If their beaks get too long, pufferfish will slowly starve to death because they can’t chew their food. 1. Snails. There are many species of snails to choose from that are perfect for small to midsized freshwater pufferfish. Many pet stores will give away pest snails species for free, like the Malaysian Trumpet Snail, common pond snails, and the occasional ramshorn snail if you ask them nicely on a slow day. I recommend staying away from the trumpet snails because they have very hard shells, which could potentially lead to a cracked beak. [...]
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