The short answer for a pea puffer's bowl
Build a pea puffer's main everyday diet around small meaty foods it can hunt and bite: tiny pond or bladder snails, daphnia, baby brine shrimp, mosquito larvae, and bloodworms offered in small portions. This is a true carnivore with a curious, beak-first way of eating, and most individuals ignore dried flake or pellets entirely, even when they are hungry. A dependable pattern is one small meaty feeding a day, rotating the item so no single food dominates the week, with snails appearing regularly rather than as a rare treat.
Why snails belong on the regular menu
A pea puffer's teeth grow continuously and fuse into a small beak, and crunching through little snail shells is one of the natural ways that beak gets worn down during ordinary feeding. Without hard-shelled prey in the rotation, the beak can overgrow until the fish struggles to take food it would normally seize eagerly. Small snails bred in a separate container make a clean, steady supply, and watching a puffer inspect, stalk, and strike a snail is also the clearest daily confirmation that its hunting behaviour is switched on and normal.
Putting together a week of varied feedings
Anchor the week with variety instead of volume. One day can be daphnia, the next snails, then baby brine shrimp, then a small portion of bloodworms, thawed in a little tank water and offered a few at a time with tweezers or a pipette so uneaten pieces do not drift into the plants. Frozen foods should be fully thawed and roughly pea-sized in total for a single fish, because a puffer's stomach is small even though its enthusiasm suggests otherwise. Live foods add movement that triggers a strike, so include them when you can source them from a clean culture.
How much, and what to watch afterwards
Feed slowly and stop when the belly looks gently rounded rather than swollen tight. A pea puffer that has eaten well will cruise off to explore, while one still begging at the glass a few minutes later may simply have learned that people mean food. Remove thawed leftovers promptly, since decaying bloodworms in a small planted tank push waste levels up quickly and quietly. Watch for a fish that approaches food but cannot bite cleanly, hovers instead of hunting, or leaves snails untouched after previously crunching them; trouble biting is a reason to seek advice from an aquatic veterinarian or experienced fish shop promptly.
Keeping the rotation straight between helpers
Because the menu changes daily by design, the person feeding needs to know what yesterday's meal was before choosing today's. A written rotation taped near the tank works until a busy week scrambles it, and doubling snails while skipping everything else is an easy mistake in a shared household. That is exactly the gap KinsLe's Care Teams fills for a pea puffer: each feeding can be assigned to a named helper and marked complete with a timestamp, so the next person sees the daphnia already went in and reaches for the snails instead.