Merry Christmas to me!

[5ft24]

After successfully performing surgery on my puffer, I treated myself to a couple new nems!

 

[mfinn]

Nice looking anemones.

 

[1guydude]

Ya those look really big and healthy

 

[tike]

Nice gifts!

 

[Maxx]

What sort of surgery did your puffer require?

 

[5ft24]

Had to nip his teeth. So overgrown he couldn't eat any more. Put him to sleep with a couple drops of clove oil in water, snipped, then put him in some clean tank water until he was swimming around, then back in the tank

 

[Maxx]

Ahh...

Okay. Interesting.....try feeding him some tougher foods that will grind his teeth down.

 

[5ft24]

Yep. Just added some birds nest to chomp on, but he hasn't touched it... Need to figure out what I can feed him that will keep his teeth trimmed down. Have plenty of dead coral skeletons, rock etc...

 

[Gryphon]

I want to say I read somewhere that mussels in the shell will help with their teeth.

 

[Maxx]

Yup...
go to the store and buy little neck clams....freeze them to kill any potential parasites.....feed to puffer.

try some live snails as well.....

 

[SnoQ]

Wow, very impressed you were able to do that with your puffer. I've never heard of clove oil being used that way. Something else to add to my list of tricks I may need to use in the future. Oh, nice nems by the way.

 

[aaron1987]

Pretty awesome job on the puffer. I definitely don't have enough faith in myself to try something like that..