dumb question thread 101

[little]

dumb question again .. can puffer's eat them selfs to death? and how offen should i be feeding my fang's puffers? I only have frozen blood worms right now, I cant find anything live or hard in or around my area. I moved my 3 puffers to a seperate tank by them selfs, right now they have lots of hiding spots and are getting along. I found a place that will take one at a time to sell for me in a week. So one is more passive, I feed them blood worms last night, and one eat everything so fast in a min he looked like he was going to pop! and he still looks that way. and of course i keep feeding them so the others would get some too, thinking he would stop when he got full. Not happening!!! the little pig, I think I read some where they only need to be feed about every 2 days, I cant find where I read that now, any advise?>

[emc7]

Goldfish can eat themselves to death, so why not puffers?

[heatherhoge]

Any fish i think will eat its self to death. The reason for my saying this fish are always looking for food and in the wild they dont have it handed to them so looking for food in a 24 hr period of time is one meal to aquarium fish. Just because our aquarium fish are in tanks doen't mean they loose their instinct to look and eat food. I tend to over feed and have fish 2-3 years old as big as a 10 year old per say. What i do diffrent is over feed once a day then fast them 2 times a week not back to back. This allows their digestive system to catch up and them to eat the left overs on the bottm so i don't have polution problem. Normally people fast once a week but they also don't over feed like me too. I can't help it they are so big and so many that its hard not to. So i had to come up with something else to work for them and me. If you have a lot of food on bottom when cleaning your rocks then yes over feeding. Or if filters have brown sludge when changing is a sign too. My puffers eat dry foods but love live foods. Froozen foods should work if they reject the dry foods and can't find live. A recommendation in a lot of stores like walmart in the toy section for kids. They have grow sea monky kits. The sea monkeys are brine shrimp and its a good kit to raise your own to feed your fish. Something to check out. Some petstores also have raise your own brine shrimp and sell the eggs.