Any tricks to get pea puffers to eat frozen food?

[PattysAquatics]

I recently got some pea puffers and have tried feeding them frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms. They go up to it but don’t seem to eat it. I put snails in and they obviously eat those. Any tricks or suggestions to get them to eat it? I was thinking stop feeding snails for a few days and just offer frozen food but not sure

[Colu]

Your could try soaking his food in seachems garlic guard to encourage him to eat frozen foods

[DannyBWell]

Maybe don't feed for a couple days and try again they can be very picky when in a new environment

[mountaintoppufferkeeper]

On 7/14/2021 at 5:03 PM, Grizzly said:

I recently got some pea puffers and have tried feeding them frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms. They go up to it but don’t seem to eat it. I put snails in and they obviously eat those. Any tricks or suggestions to get them to eat it? I was thinking stop feeding snails for a few days and just offer frozen food but not sure

 I have had fish refuse a new food initially. The vitachem helps for me same idea as garlic guard. I just offer the new food and eventually they eat it. I believe they can go for a bit without eating but are comfortable enough and conditioned enough in my set up to be picky about new foods occasionally. Ive done 3 days and then tried the new food again and they ate it with no issues.  Id try your idea in my tanks

[Jennifer V]

On 7/14/2021 at 5:03 PM, Grizzly said:

I recently got some pea puffers and have tried feeding them frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms. They go up to it but don’t seem to eat it. I put snails in and they obviously eat those. Any tricks or suggestions to get them to eat it? I was thinking stop feeding snails for a few days and just offer frozen food but not sure

Can you find out what they were fed before you got them? That might be a good place to start. I do, however, agree that maybe not feeding them for a couple days and then trying the frozen food again is a good idea. Puffs are picky little buggers! 

[Kilrkitty08]

I use planting 'touges' (big tweezers) and wiggle the blood worms.  Mine do the same Stalk and eat behavior as with snail eating.  I mainly do this bc I keep neons and I can ensure my puffers are well fed but maybe it'll help you.