Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!ames!hc!ut-sally!husc6!yale!hanks
From: hanks@yale.UUCP (Steve Hanks)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: puffer fish
Keywords: puffer, fish
Message-ID: <23229@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 21:33:27 GMT
Organization: Yale University, New Haven, CT
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I recently bought a puffer fish to control a snail 
infestation in my tank.  Well, the thing made 
short work of the snails (the visible ones, anyway)
but now I'm worried that s/he may not be getting
enough to eat.  The salesperson at the pet store 
said that s/he (the fish, not the salesperson) would 
eat flake food, but I haven't seen any evidence of that.  
When the other fish get fed s/he just kind of motors 
around aimlessly looking as though s/he'd like 
something to eat too but doesn't 
know where to find it.  So here are the questions:

Will s/he really eat flake food if s/he gets hungry
enough (perhaps s/he is just not hungry yet after 
gorging him/herself on snails).  Perhaps sh/e just 
doesn't feed as often.  If s/he is indeed in need 
of some other kind of food, what might it be?  Is 
there perhaps enough invisible snail action in the 
tank so I don't have to worry?

This fish is just about the cutest thing you can 
imagine, and I want to do right by him/her, but 
it's so hard to tell......

Thanks,

Steve.

    hanks@cs.yale.edu      ...!decvax!yale!hanks