Puffer food recipes

Pescador · #1 04-13-2009, 08:48 PM

Does anyone have any puffer food recipes they can share? He's not to picky and eats mysis, pellets, and fresh seafood but I want to make sure it's balanced.

my2rotties · #2 04-13-2009, 09:05 PM

I make puffer food

- One large bag of prawns or shrimp
- 2 bags of the seafood medley (cuttlefish, scallops, clams, mussels, octopus etc)
- 1 bag of squid if it is whole squid I clean and remove the ink form them or the food turns purple
- a handful of silversides
- Kent garlic concentrate several eye droppers full
- Selcon several eye droppers full
- RO water enough to not fry the blender

I thaw it all out, and rinse with RO water. I leave the skin on the shrimp but remove the tails.

Throw it in the blender and add water until it turns into a paste, and I can smell the motor in the blender frying. You will need to add water a little bit at a time or it will burn out your blender. Your wife will love you!!!

I put it into ziplock bags and freeze it. When it is frozen I cut it into cubes. When I feed my puffer will eat the entire cube and blow the tidbits out of his gills. While this goes down all my other fish are around him like vultures and eats what he blows out. I have very little waste and bioload on my tank since I have started feeding him this food. All my other fish go nuts for this food as well, and my cleaner wrasse and copperband butterfly are in there like sharks.

My puffer has become a beautiful dark beige colour with copper coloured stripes and nice black dots. He used to be almost white when he came home. He is the fattest and happiest puffer I have ever seen. He has no ich like he used to have all the time, and his eyes are clear and bright. He does not touch my little chromis or and shrimp that live in my tank. Even my cleaner wrasse comes and cleans him with no issues.

I swear upon his food and it is good for all of my fish. The food is a pain to make but it is well worth the trouble. I see puffers at the LFS and none look as healthy and robust as my Griffie.

michika · #3 04-13-2009, 09:08 PM

Mmm burning blender...a sadly familiar smell in our house.

my2rotties · #4 04-13-2009, 09:18 PM

HAHAA we should go to costco and get some new ones... show me your new friend over there too

I have managed to get three more batches out of my blender but it keeps getting slower and slower... i doubt I will get another one.

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Originally Posted by michika

Mmm burning blender...a sadly familiar smell in our house.

Pescador · #5 04-13-2009, 09:41 PM

Fantastic
Thanks!

GreenSpottedPuffer · #6 04-13-2009, 09:58 PM

Personally I don't use the blender for puffer food (just for the tangs food) because it gets way too fine and small for them IMO. I prefer to feed them larger chunks that they have to bite into and that also makes much less of a mess.

This is what mine looked like:

They would get one of these bags a day...Most people under feed their puffers. If you ever get a chance to see them while diving, you will be amazed at how 'fat' they are.