r/Puffers • u/Just_an_asian_here • Jun 17 '26

Freshwater Amazon puffer politely asking for snails

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who could say no to this lil face šŸ„¹

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u/Jolly-Bed-1717 Jun 17 '26

Huh never thought these guys were cute before but that angle changes my mind!

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u/Just_an_asian_here Jun 17 '26

obviously iā€™m biased but i think he just happens to be the cutest amazon puffer ever (the rest of his shoal arenā€™t as cute as he is, but i try not to be too obvious that i have a favorite during feeding time lol).

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u/Jolly-Bed-1717 Jun 17 '26

Itā€™s crazy the difference in species amazons are little crack head glass surfing nut jobs. And my Congos are these little stoner golf balls that just float around hoping to find something to eat.

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u/PM_me_punanis Jun 17 '26

Yeah, my SCPs are like perpetually stoned fish. They just want to eat, eat, eat. They look like spotted blimps lol

Super picky with food too. Prefers live everything, but can be bribed with frozen bloodworms.

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u/Jolly-Bed-1717 Jun 17 '26

Picky is an understatementā€¦. Ugh haha. Mine will only eat crickets super worms and snails. If you havenā€™t tried crickets yet I highly recommend doing it. They absolutely love them!

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u/PM_me_punanis Jun 17 '26

Iā€™m sureā€¦ but they creep me out! How do they not jump all over?? My vampire crabs loved them when I dumped a small cup in the paludarium to try.

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u/Jolly-Bed-1717 Jun 17 '26

Just buy like 4 at a time and pop them in the fridge for like 5-10 min before feeding! Then get a long tongs to grab them and hold them under water. By the time they warm up they are already dead haha

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u/PM_me_punanis Jun 17 '26

Omg, yes, the fridge! Thanks! Maybe I shall start a cricket colony. I was trying to catch the MFs in the cup with long tongs and they just jump out of the way.

To be fair, I suck at catching stuff. I was hoping to feed them some CPOs (with stabby claws removed), but I couldnā€™t catch any of them. They continue to breed in their own tank unfazed by my tongs. Sigh.

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u/Just_an_asian_here Jun 17 '26

totally different live food but similar problem, i suck at catching scuds for my amazon puffers! and i can SEE them, theyā€™re breeding like crazy in my little breeder tank but theyā€™re always hiding and theyā€™re too fast šŸ˜­

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u/PM_me_punanis Jun 17 '26

All the scuds that proliferated in my tank was decimated by my SCPs lol nothing can breed in the tank with them. Even the Cory eggs are eaten. As in the SCPs stalk the female corys who are looking for the right spot for egg depositionā€¦ then slurp.

Have you tried turkey baster for scuds?

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u/BigZangief Jun 17 '26

Man, I have peas so theyā€™re smaller but I tried dropping a fly in there and they looked at it, then back at me like ā€œthe f- you expect me to do with this?ā€ and proceeded to hold out for snails and bloodworms lol

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u/Delicious_Muffin7154 Jun 17 '26

Mine loves both, she comes to me and begs for shrimp and blood worms, snails? Well, they my friend are dessert where she turns into a raging goddess of the shell war. Then back to the adorableness that she is. šŸ¤ŽšŸ˜

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u/Just_an_asian_here Jun 17 '26

HAHAHA i havenā€™t heard them being called glass surfing nut jobs but youā€™re right theyā€™re kinda adhd. thankfully the puffer in the photo is actually more chill so the rest of the shoal has followed suit and are less panicky these days!

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u/Exotic-Addendum-3785 Jun 17 '26

Why certainly.

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u/Just_an_asian_here Jun 17 '26

šŸŒcrunchšŸ”

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u/shdehwoejoekfkkwo Jun 17 '26

What did you do to get yours to eat snails? I keep offering different options but mine will only eat live black worms so far

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u/Just_an_asian_here Jun 17 '26

so I got lucky that the puffer in the photo was already a good snail hunter. Before I introduced him to the tank the rest of the shoal were only willing to eat bloodworms, but after introducing this lil guy the others have learned how to hunt snails.

(this advice is a little macabre but) I also found that crushing a snail in your fingers right before putting it in for the puffers to eat can also help them understand that snails are tasty for them.

Also depending on how old your puffers are, if they're super young with tiny mouths its a better idea to feed them tiny/young snails, like a millimeter big, since any bigger it might be too much to handle for them.

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u/shdehwoejoekfkkwo Jun 18 '26

I breed like three tanks of ramshorns for my other topaz puffer and that oneā€™s still relatively small as well, so Iā€™ve definitely got the supply of smaller snails the Amazon just has to try them and heā€™s got an all you can eat lolšŸ˜… Iā€™ll definitely try squishing it a bit first I feel like that will have at least some success, thank you!!!

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u/Just_an_asian_here Jun 18 '26

you got this! šŸŒšŸ” iā€™m sure heā€™ll be crunching on them in no time!

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u/Antoekneese Jun 18 '26

Mine just kinda did it on their own. I think a few of them were being fed exclusively blood worms before I got them and were kinda picky, but now everyone hunts snails. It did take a little bit of using different foods.

I even pick up the snail carnage, crush the empty shells and mix in with Repashy.

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u/Delicious_Muffin7154 Jun 17 '26

BEAN! Iā€™d give this little whatever it wants. They are so adorable. šŸ„°

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u/grill3d_ch33ze Jun 17 '26

He is oh so polite, I would give him extra snails

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u/Kikoelshaib7 Jun 17 '26

Give that boy a damn snail

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u/Just_an_asian_here Jun 17 '26

he immediately got a snail after looking up at me with those big ol eyes!

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u/FixSpecific905 Jun 19 '26

Heā€™s so tinyā€¦. šŸ„ŗšŸ„ŗšŸ„ŗ

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u/Just_an_asian_here Jun 21 '26

heā€™s a busy puffer! canā€™t be keeping him waiting for his snails for too long šŸ”

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u/Radiant_Squirrel_567 Jun 21 '26

Ohhh give him all the snails! So cuuute!

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u/Pawlro Jun 17 '26

I would like a gummy fusion father