I don't know how many he eats, and I really wish he didn't be honest. They make him sick and then he has to puff up to try to cough them up. I guess he must not always crush them completely and then he can't poop out a shell
What goes in must come out of course, and when he is trying to upchuck snail shells, he looks pretty gross.
Griff does not bother the hermit crabs, none of the shrimp or my scooter blennies. When I first brought him home, he already was a large adult fish, and was used to hunting I suppose. He ate my clownfish, and a couple of others at first. He sometimes does try to get my scooter blennies but they are too close to all the rock work and see him coming.
I really have no idea of how many snails I have now, my tank is too big and I have too much rock work. I don't see any right now to be honest, but I know they are in there. I think a baby would be a better choice since he might be able to grow up as a peaceful captive fish. With my guy since he was already mature, it took quite awhile for him to know it was me that provided his meals, and not his tank mates.
The worst one for eating my snails now is my Banana wrasse. I still see him swimming around with them in his mouth and smashing them on the rocks. When he is done then Griff goes and eats the shells with whatever is left of the snail inside of it.
What strikes me as funny is when people come to see the tank, they go nuts over the puffer and my large cowfish. Those two are so easy to keep and nobody that isn't into this hobby notices my hard to keep fish such as my Achilles tang, regal angel and copperband butterfly fish. Then nobody notices I have 10 peppermints, a fire shrimp and 2 cleaner shrimp living in peace with him. Anyone that knows aquariums would see this and be surprised
One thing I do notice with Griff is he rather enjoys a chase when I am feeding him. Instead of just giving it to him, I will circle his dinner around the top of the tank and he will go snapping after it. He can be quite quick for such a big fat fish. You will enjoy the puffer believe me, they are pretty interactive, and back in the day Griff would swim into my hand for belly rubs... not so much anymore now, I guess he is too cool for me.
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Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat
Diana, How many snail's does Griffie go through? Is he just slowly picking off your clean up crew, and you just add more snails when they get low? Trying to figure out how much he will eat LOL. OA and JL are looking for a baby for me. We'll see who comes up with one. What about the Hermit's, he like them too?
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