selcon

[alton]

I fed my clown trigger Zoecon it didn't hurt him

[TexasTodd]

It shouldn't hurt anything in a saltwater aquarium.

I like Selcon better than Zoecon because it soaks in to the food much better.

TT

[don-n-sa]

It shouldn't hurt anything in a saltwater aquarium.
ITT
I agree with Todd

Puffers do need a large variety of foods , including foods with hard shells to wear down their teeth and prevent them from overgrowing and becoming a problem.

Here is a pretty extensive list of foods to feed puffers

Cuttle Fish
Squid
Crabs
Cray Fish
Mysis Shrimp
Plankton
Shrimp
Crab Legs
Mussels
Clams
Sand Eels
Silver Sides
Cockles
Bloodworms
Crickets
Daphnia
Snails
Brine Shrimp
Tubifex worms
Black Worms
Glass Worms
Krill
Grass Shrimp
Night Crawlers
Ghost Shrimp

[don-n-sa]

Puffers definitley will have their favorite foods that they will eat more of, just keep trying other things...he will come around.

BTW every puffer that I have had eats that way...thats part of the reason that they are not usually kept in reef tanks. Take a bite...chew it up...spit it out, bite it again, chew it some more...they are messy eaters!! ;)

[jaded]

I've seen don's puffer eat. You could feed the entire tank by feeding that fish :) all the other fish just positioned themself under the puffer and munched out on whatever was falling

[Thunderkat]

There is nothing wrong with freeze dried. If your fish likes it more power to ya (cheaper to store freeze dried than frozen). I know everybody here likes frozen, but they make it sound like you are torturing your fish and forcing them to certain death if you don't feed them mysis. Freeze dried is wonderful.

Freeze dried is also good because you can rehydrate it with those food supplement liquids.

Found a small article about frozen vs freeze dried.



Frozen And Freeze Dried Foods

All the foods mentioned above are available in frozen and freeze dried forms. Frozen and freeze dried foods hold all the benefits of live food but in a much less risky and more convenient package.


Freeze dried food, is first frozen and then dried to remove excess water. It retains all the nutrients and vitamins of the live form and can be stored indefinitely. The drawback with this type of food is that like dried foods, it must soak up water before being consumed.

Frozen food is a cheaper alternative but contains a higher water content than other foods. It must be defrosted before use but this is quickly done by placing the food in a cup of tank water for a few minutes.


Although both types of food are disease free, frozen food should never be re-frozen after thawing as this will harbor bacteria an cause disease.

Human frozen foods are often relished by fish. Silver Sharks love shrimp and an ideal food for pufferfish is mussels or oysters. These should be fed with care though, as the oils contained in these foods can quickly pollute the aquarium.

[jaded]

that seems more like an advertisement than an aticle...

In general (fish food, human food, spices, etc.) fresh is best, frozen is a step below fresh and freeze dried is a step below that and then theres hydrogenated... which apparently has something to do with plastic.

I'm not suggesting that the article above is wrong, but my common sense alarm goes off when I hear things like that.

[Thunderkat]

Yeah took me forever to find that, they were the only one not selling anything with it (unless I missed it).

Most of the things you find are advertisements.

I have never heard of a fish dying from nutritional deficiency. If you look at the nutrition on flake food these days even that is pretty good.

The BEST thing to do is vary the diet. No one food is best and will take care of all nutritional requirements. As fas as frozen being better than freeze dried I don't buy that one bit. There is a catch though, if you don't rehydrate freeze dried before giving to fish and your fish is a glutton then it could get a stomach ache when the food starts to expand (same with flake food) but again I have never seen a fish die from this. The catch with frozen is if whoever had it before you let it thaw out and then refroze it (or their power went out without them knowing it) you could have had bacteria build up and start making toxins and you could potentially kill your fish (and yes people can die from the same thing).

Whatever, its really just personal choice (and in your case the puffer's choice).

If people here swear frozen is by far better than freeze dried and you can provide me with links to articles I am willing to read it. I have had bad advice here before so now I look things up before just jumping in and doing it.

[GaryP]

Try feeding him some live black mussels from HEB.

[Thunderkat]

Try skipping a day of feeding then give it the other stuff. Hunger is a wonderful spice.

[CD]

"One disadvantage of freeze dried foods is that the freeze-drying process often strips vitamins from the food as well, so freeze dried foods are not likely to make a balanced and complete diet. Remember when feeding freeze-dried foods, that these foods can absorb a lot of water, and will fill up your fish a lot more than you would think when looking in the package. We recommend that you moisten freeze-dried foods before feeding them to your fish to keep your fish from overeating and making themselves sick."

Found this on Google...info site that wasn't trying to sell something.

Wendy