Has anyone ever filed their puffer's teeth?

[Microcosmos]

I've read somewhere that you're supposed to do that, but does anyone actually do it? Is chewing through shrimp shells and scraping LR enough?

[SHARKSRME]

i like feeding them cockle in the shell. Its much harder than a shrimps exoskeleton.

[puzzlenow]

OK, no I have not trimmed my puffer teeth. You can see his teeth in my gallery. I have an 12" stars and stripe puffer and I asked the same question.

My advise will be, as long as he can still eat, and his teeth are not over grown, feed him shelly foods a couple times a week. Mine loves loves loves crab legs, also shrimp w/ shells on, clams, mussles, some feed live crawfish, snails,... get the picture.

Puffers and bunnys will starve to death if they dont keep their teeth trimmed.

Here is a link on puffer dentistry http://www.lmas.org/lmas.old/library/dentistry.htm

http://puffer.proboards2.com/index.cgi?board=hospital&action=display&num=1085932782
this one is on trimming their teeth.

But I would very muc express trying to feed him shelly foods first. Trimming their teeth is very very stressful. I have heard that some dont recover very well.

[puzzlenow]

http://img54.photobucket.com/albums/v165/puzzlenow/Over_grown_teeth_copied.jpg

I wanted to add this to show you what over grown teeth look like, I copied this from the puffer forum a while back. YUK! now thats over grown.

[Microcosmos]

Thanks for the replies! Yuck, my puffer's teeth aren't nearly that bad! I think I'll do like you guys said and get some crunchy food for my puffer.

[puzzlenow]

Good idea!
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