How often should I feed my pea puffers?

It’s important to make sure you’re not overfeeding them for the sake of their health. Due to their appetite, it’s quite easy to give these fish too much food. Aim for a two a day feeding schedule. Another reason why it’s bad to overfeed your pea puffer is the effect the extra food can have on water quality.

Do pea puffers eat fish food?

Can pea puffers eat flakes?

Pea Puffers are meat-eaters through and through. They won’t eat prepared foods such as fish flakes or pellets.

Can you keep a single pea puffer?

Pea puffers are rather small fish. … You can keep a single pea puffer in a 5 gallon (19 liter) tank (bigger is always better, though!). If you want to have multiple puffers, it’s best to provide 5 gallons per fish.

Can Pea Puffers live with Betta?

Bettas are small and somewhat scrappy themselves. However the long-finned variety that are so popular won’t do well with fin-nipping Pea Puffers.

Do Pea Puffers need brackish water?

While most Puffer Fish are brackish or saltwater fish Pea Puffers are true freshwater fish. They don’t require salt and can’t tolerate even brackish conditions.

How do you feed pea puffers?

These hardcore carnivores are best fed on a diet of frozen foods (like frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp) and live foods (like little pest snails or blackworms). They typically will not take dry foods, but we’ve had good luck with Hikari Vibra Bites because they look and even move like bloodworms as they’re sinking.

Do pea puffers like bubbles?

Many people report their puffers “playing” in bubbles with no adverse effects. I’m not a huge fan of bubbles in the aquarium as they are unnecessary with proper filtration, circulation and surface disruption, but I do consider them safe for puffers.

Do pea puffers need live plants?

If the Pea Puffers are being added to a community tank, make sure the the tank mates are carefully selected and there’s enough space for all fish. There should be plenty of live plants for cover as well. This will allow the fish to hide whenever they feel threatened.

Will pea puffers eat Scuds?

What do baby pea puffers eat?

Baby pea puffers can be fed a diet of infusoria, daphnia, micro worms and vinegar eels. Puffers like to have a varied diet and it is important to feed different foods when keeping dwarf puffer fish in captivity. Where live worms are fed, the use of perforated cone feeders, or feeding dishes are strongly recommended.

Can you put shrimp with pea puffers?

I would also highly recommend that the shrimps are the same size as the pea puffer, you do mean pea puffers, right! it seems that many on this sight have keeped them toghether sucesfully. i have keeped 4 dwarf puffers with 15 ‘ghosts’ in a well planted 20 gallon tank and even them they harassed the ghost.

Do Pea Puffers eat peas?

Re: feeding your puffer peas

Frozen is best, canned peas are cooked so they are devoid of some minerals, and aren’t as healthy.

Can pea puffers eat krill?

Dwarf puffer fish, or dwarf puffers as they are commonly known, from India’s Pamba River make diminutive and charming pets. … Dwarf puffers enjoy a wide range of live and frozen foods including snails, shrimp and krill.

Will pea puffers eat frozen brine shrimp?

Dwarf puffers will also eat small ghost shrimp and frozen mysis shrimp, as well as soft foods, and frozen brine shrimp although the latter two do not in keeping the fishes’ teeth worn properly. … Getting them to breed just makes keeping these great fish even more interesting.

How long can Pea Puffers go without food?

How long can Dwarf Puffers go without eating? Dwarf Pufferfish can go for 5 – 7 days without eating. A healthy Dwarf Puffer can go even longer. If your Dwarf Puffer has stopped eating, try tempting them back into feeding by offering live bloodworms, blackworms, or small snails.

Can Pea Puffers eat crickets?

They’ve done pretty well so far. The superworms and crickets are relatively the same thing as mealworms, same composition. If your going to use them for a beardie, gut load them real well and use them only like once or twice a week.

How fast do pea puffers grow?

Fahaka Puffers grow relatively quickly. A healthy, young Fahaka Puffer will grow at a rate of about 1” (2.5cm) per month for the first 12 months or so. Over the next 12 months they will usually grow by about another 6” (15cm). A Fahaka Puffer should reach around 18” (45cm) by the time it is 2 years old.

Are pea puffers poisonous?

Are Dwarf Puffers poisonous to touch? No, they are not. You have to ingest the fish for it to poison you. The poison in question is Tetrodotoxin (TTX), a neurotoxin that causes an increasing paralysis of the muscles and shuts off vital organs, such as the heart.

How many pea puffers are in a 15 gallon?

Re: Puffer For a 15 Gallon Tank

You could probably fit a figure 8 in there. I would recommend the dps though. I think three little puffers together would be and awesome and amusing aquarium.