what to feed puffer

[Timster]

I have a 20 gallon tank with guppies and neons and ottos.
I recently bought a tank divider and 2 dwarf puffers. So on one side of my tank i have puffers and on the other side a bunch of community fish.

Feeding my puffers snails is not a problem....they love em! But they wont eat the frozen blood worms i have for them. They eat then spit it right out. The worms have been in my freezer since january...is it possible they have gone bad maybe?

Anyways my main question is what am I going to feed them when I run out of snails (which will be soon) My petsmart will give them to me free but they are about an hour away and I cant keep driving to petsmart every week.

ANY HELP/SUGGESTIONS?,

Tim

 

[Antwan]

You can keep trying to feed them worms, but I'd buy some new ones. They're probably kind of old. You can also try flake and that stuff. You gotta keep trying because sometimes fish don't accept new foods right off the bat.

 

[beaver8888]

blood worms snails mussle cockle

 

[Timster]

Originally posted by beaver8888
blood worms snails mussle cockle

how do they eat the mussle? can the mussle be dead?

 

[Lai Liu Ha]

u can grow the snails in a container or in a small tank, and then u'll have an endless supply...just feed them some lettuce or flakes

 

[Timster]

I have the snails in a container with some fish food... they have been in there since friday how long does this process take?

 

[Wormo3188]

Give them a week or so, if I were you I would put a fake plastic plant or 2 in the container for the snails to lay their eggs on, they seem to enjoy that. After a week or so the population will get established and then a week or so after that there will be an endless supply of snails.

 

[Timster]

wow it only takes a week for the snails to lay eggs and hatch them?

 

[bobrob]

I was about to suggest the same thing. lol. You could even net out guppy fry and feed it to the puffer theyre going to get ate anyways.