Snoop breaking them boys off!

[madugo]

oh then it should be ok, it looks normal and not skinny...

I didn't treat, I don't like treating unless there is a problem or show signs of it. I think with a healthy diet it's immune will be strong enough.

but honestly the puffer has been in captivity and in houston for about a year now.

[madugo]

i guess once in a while is ok, just dont it long term lol...

but I wanted to see them fight..... I purged them in freshwater for about an hour now and the one I'm about to feed is sitting in a tub of water with a lot of salt.

[eklikewhoa]

well, at the LFS they always threw food into the tank and he's use to eating off the ground. I want to get him use to eating from the water surface cause it would be easier for me with all the trophs in there, food doesn't make it to the bottom of the tank with them.

Yeah I posted about feeding NLS on another forum and they weirdos over there criticized it as well... some people will never learn.

I want to starve him or not feed him as much so he gets use to me feeding it and like you said, see the the trophs eat and want to join them but I like seeing fish eat and have a hard time refraining from feeding.

I picked up a pho to-go cup worth of 3mm Thera+A from thai the other day so I'm good. You aren't feeding your MBU pellets anymore?

[eklikewhoa]

oh then it should be ok, it looks normal and not skinny...

It's pretty healthy and has a good appetite, not nice a full looking like most home kept MBUs but he'll get there.

i guess once in a while is ok, just dont it long term lol...

Yeah I don't plan on feeding him this stuff too often, just once and a while to see his tactics against the crawfish and their mighty claws!
I have a tub of mystery snails I am gut loading and a bag of raw shrimp in the freezer I am stuffing with NLS for his daily diet.

[madugo]

3mm is kinda of small, i am still feeding mine pellets, i think they are 8mm or 10mm, and its floating...
the large size ones should preventing the tropheus from taking them, and since its floating, if the mbu go for it, other fish should back off...

well, at the LFS they always threw food into the tank and he's use to eating off the ground. I want to get him use to eating from the water surface cause it would be easier for me with all the trophs in there, food doesn't make it to the bottom of the tank with them.

Yeah I posted about feeding NLS on another forum and they weirdos over there criticized it as well... some people will never learn.

I want to starve him or not feed him as much so he gets use to me feeding it and like you said, see the the trophs eat and want to join them but I like seeing fish eat and have a hard time refraining from feeding.

I picked up a pho to-go cup worth of 3mm Thera+A from thai the other day so I'm good. You aren't feeding your MBU pellets anymore?

[eklikewhoa]

Thanks for the offer but for now I need to work on him meeting me at the front glass when feeding and then work on the pellets only.

The trophs are voracious feeders... they steal the snails and large shrimp from him.

[madugo]

ya i remember it was fun to watch at the size of yours, it really did have tactics.
once the mbu gets to the size of mine, it's just like one bite thing lol...
i feed mine mostly large frozen shrimps and NLS, it would just take too many NLS to make mine full now...

It's pretty healthy and has a good appetite, not nice a full looking like most home kept MBUs but he'll get there.




Yeah I don't plan on feeding him this stuff too often, just once and a while to see his tactics against the crawfish and their mighty claws!
I have a tub of mystery snails I am gut loading and a bag of raw shrimp in the freezer I am stuffing with NLS for his daily diet.

[eklikewhoa]

Here's Snoop stalking the bristenose... I don't know if they like each other or he's gonna one day take a chunk out of them.

[madugo]

it will eventually do that, just takes time...
now when mine is hungry and when it sees people far away, it will make splashing with the tail to make big noise...really funny lol...

Thanks for the offer but for now I need to work on him meeting me at the front glass when feeding and then work on the pellets only.

The trophs are voracious feeders... they steal the snails and large shrimp from him.

[madugo]

it should eat it eventually...when it gets hungry...
you should see random disappearing fish once it gets big...
mine took out a few trohpeus, a few geos...a few featherfins...and a whole bunch of other fishes that swims slow lol...like pleco is very dangerous...

Here's Snoop stalking the bristenose... I don't know if they like each other or he's gonna one day take a chunk out of them.

[eklikewhoa]

Yeah I am sure he will get to that point.

Just wonder if I should starve him some to speed up the process but right now I like watching him eat.

[eklikewhoa]

NWS- profanity

Snoop takes down his first crawdad with his torpedo attack move!

[madugo]

lol if i am the mbu, i would kill all those brown/yellow fish lol...
just way too annoying lol...

NWS- profanity

Snoop takes down his first crawdad with his torpedo attack move!

[eklikewhoa]

They are pissing me off too... and they keep multiplying like roaches.

I am going to order an eel soon to eat the fry in the tank, hopefully Snoop doesn't eat the eel but if he does I'm going to get a Bicher for the tank.

[AQUAMAN0306]

I stuffed carnivore in a shrimp and fed it to the mbu with a long set of plastic tongs from petsmart put it rite in front of him thats how i trained him on pellets but hes not eating anything rite now for 2 days the peacocks are driving him nuts nipping at him and he does nada!