They told me they cannot sell any animal as food for another animal. It was in reference to me buying a snail as food for a puffer, which HAVE to eat snails to trim their beaks down or they can starve to death.

They have never told me that...but maybe I never mentioned that i was buying feeder guppies as food for other fish. I would just avoid mentioning it in the future. isnt that why mice are so cheap? they're food for snakes, etc. (I always buy frozen but I know some people buy live)

go to the grocery store and get some fresh clams or oysters.............that'll keep him busy for a while, my buddy has a huge dog face puff and he makes him work on clams the size of your fist to keep his beak in check, he also pops the clams with a hammer too so he's not grinding away at every one

hey man snails have rights too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


lmao wtf is this world comming to -

what kind of puffer is it? its relatively easy to get your own snail population going in a 5gal. I'm assuming you were talking about buying apple or mystery snails which are too large to make for efficient dwarf puffer food, since they'll just kill it and eat a little and let the rest rot...

I believe even some of the larger puffers will take whole pond snails or ramshorn snails(shell and all)..both of which you can raise populations of the hundreds of in a 5 gal tank. It would probably be as simple as getting a plant and housing just the snails (maybe 1 or 2 small fish you know won't eat them) and giving them excess fish food.

I have a GSP. He's still pretty small though. I have NO LUCK trying to breed them. I've had them in 2 different tanks, none would breed...