Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: puffer fish
Keywords: puffer, fish
Message-ID: <2569@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 07:51:12 GMT
References: <23229@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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They will eat worms, all kinds (can't reccomend tubifex - too
dirty) and will also eat clams, mussels, that kinda stuff.

There is an account of breeding the red-eyed puffer (Tetradon
Somphongsii) in _breeding problem fishes_ (I think it's book 2)
wherein the author describes his puffers eating nothing but
live mussels. You probably have the (much) more common figure 8.

Good luck.

If they are hungry enough, they'll eat flake food though.

I tried puffers to get rid of snails once too. They got rid of
all the *visible* snails, but as soon as I removed them (because
they were eating the plants - which is why i wanted to get rid
of the snails - so were they) the snails returned.

Sigh.

-- 
                "He tried to do his best, but he could not"           
                          richard@gryphon.CTS.COM 
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