I make homemade food for my other fish tanks, but I wanted to start making some for my puffer too. I dont think he likes the food I make for the other fish because it has a lot of greens in it. What are the key ingredients I would need in food for my puffer? He's a figure 8 puffer btw. I was thinking it would be mostly shrimp, oysters, beef heart, vitamin supplements, stuff like that, but how much veggies should I put in? anything else important?

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I feed mine live black worms, live brine shrimp, live snails (the size of their eyes), and live ghost shrimp. They also enjoy frozen blood worms. The live food I drop into their tanks and watch the puffers hunt down their food, as they would in the wild. The frozen blood worm (thawed) I feed through a dropper. The dominant male will eat first, then the others follow suit, sometimes taking the worms right out of each others mouth! The least dominant wait their turn.
Puffers like their food to be alive-or at least moving and huntable, so I am not sure a prepared food is best.