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Puffer On A Hunger Strike?

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Puffer On A Hunger Strike?

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I’ve had a 2″ Valentini for 2 days now and he won’t eat any of the frozen Mysis shrimp, brine shrimp or frozen greens that I’ve given him! He was in QT for a day-He was acting so wildly, pacing up and down the glass, rubbing his snout, and looked stressed out so against my better judgment (see more below) I released him into the main tank. He is much calmer now and is picking at the live rock and poking at the 2 huge snails I have in the tank (I’m aware he might eventually eat these, at this point I hope he does to keep up his strength). Hopefully my LFS should be getting live brine shrimp today, and I’ll also pick up a live clam or mussel. Any other suggestions? He’s still rubbing his snout back and forth on the glass, I’ll keep on eye on it. On QT: When I bought the fish (Nippon San Francisco, LFS has been around for 95 years) Several of the people there thought the whole ‘quarantine’ idea was bunk-that a fish alwa

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