Hello. I have a very small valentini puffer that I bought from my LFS. She's quite a bit less than an inch long.
When I first got her, she was eating mysis and similar frozen foods, but was refusing pellets. After having her for 2-3 weeks, I went on vacation for 1 week with an auto feeder set up with pellets. She seemed fine when I got back, but now she doesn't seem to be eating mysis anymore. I'm worried.
She seems very interested in the snails. I don't have any small ones, so I bought some of the smallest snails from reef cleaners, the zig zag snails. I got them today and put them in, and she is very interested in them, but they still seem too big for her tiny mouth. She instead tries to pick at the mantle from the bottom.
I was hoping to find some really tiny snails that she could eat shell and all. What do folks do to feed tiny puffers like this? I searched around a bit, but couldn't find anything really definitive. Is there a micro snail dealer or something? Thanks in advance ;Happy
When I first got her, she was eating mysis and similar frozen foods, but was refusing pellets. After having her for 2-3 weeks, I went on vacation for 1 week with an auto feeder set up with pellets. She seemed fine when I got back, but now she doesn't seem to be eating mysis anymore. I'm worried.
She seems very interested in the snails. I don't have any small ones, so I bought some of the smallest snails from reef cleaners, the zig zag snails. I got them today and put them in, and she is very interested in them, but they still seem too big for her tiny mouth. She instead tries to pick at the mantle from the bottom.
I was hoping to find some really tiny snails that she could eat shell and all. What do folks do to feed tiny puffers like this? I searched around a bit, but couldn't find anything really definitive. Is there a micro snail dealer or something? Thanks in advance ;Happy