Dog Face Puffers Teeth Need Trimming Again!

About a month ago my outside service techs brought a dogface puffer back from one of our service clients whose front teeth had grown so long the poor fellow could no longer eat. Just two years ago my staff and I trimmed his teeth, but they grew back, and here he was again. We needed to perform this tooth trimming operation to keep him from dieing of starvation.

The dogface puffer is one of the species that commonly has a problem with overgrown teeth. In the wild puffer fish kill and eat crustaceans with hard shells – keeping their teeth worn down. They also grind their teeth on rocks and rubble as they attempt to remove algae. In the aquarium they may eat a nutritional diet but it usually consist of soft foods, and even if they eat the occasional crustacean, they just don’t find rocks and rubble to wear their teeth down.

Here’s the operation: We kept this puffer in a holding tank for a few days to calm him down. Read More Here…

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