what do you feed your clowns?

JOSH · #1 09-28-2006, 01:14 AM

i cant seem to get mine to eat, i bought a frozen mix of mysis, brine and krill
they swim up to it but dont eat it, one sometimes eats a piece and then spits it out

marie · #2 09-28-2006, 01:36 AM

Mine likes my fingers

seriously, maybe try making the food a little bit smaller. When my clarkii clowns were little (and still cute) they had trouble eating the larger pieces of food and would just carry it around for a while and then drop it.

CLINT · #3 09-28-2006, 02:22 AM

have you tried live brine yet my clowns love it.

JOSH · #4 09-28-2006, 02:36 AM

no, where do you get live brine?

CLINT · #5 09-28-2006, 02:56 AM

i get my live brine from lfs.but you can hatch them as well just takes a bit of patience.

sumpfinfishe · #6 09-28-2006, 05:33 AM

Yes the smaller the fish-the smaller the food

I give my pair a mix of small spirulina flakes as well as enriched brine as mysis is simply too large for the juvinile clowns.

I hope they were eating when you purchased them

skylord · #7 09-28-2006, 06:07 AM

When ours were small they really liked Formula One Pellet's made by Ocean Nutrition. Now they like everything.......