HELP please!

[Tim]

Leland, thanks for the reply!

yeah, making your own food seems like quite a bit of work. but the problem is that my clowns wont eat flake food, or freeze dried food, i havent tried pellets yet but they seem to only like food that are more natural. they also dont eat formula one. its driving me crazy! is there anything i can do to get them to eat these foods? thanks

tim

Originally Posted by Leland F.

Tim,
You can go through a great deal of trouble, and money, making your own food. I've done it, and its great for the fish, but not worth the trouble. You need to vary your clowns diet, with foods like Formula one frozen cubes, a good green flake like spirulina or Formula two, pellet food like New Life Spectrum or ORA's pellet, and only feed brine or mysis as a treat sparingly. The eggs are light in color due to poor diet. They will hatch, but you will have very, very low numbers if any make it to and through metamorphosis. The key to good survival rates start with feeding the broodstock pairs high quality food. Formula one is great, it was developed as a food for clownfish specifically.
PE stands for the company selling the mysis, Pycine Energetics.

Leland

[Fearlessmoto]

give them live foods, and mix a little of the flake at a time, each week add a little more flake and a little less live food to wean them off, eventually they should take to the flake, if flake doesnt work try frozen foods and then flake.

[Tim]

k cool thanks i'll give it a shot

[Leland F.]

Sorry for the late reply,
If the tank is big enough, adding a small herbivorous fish like a small tang or other easy to feed fish that isnt aggressive, will sometimes "teach" picky fish to eat other foods. The tang will eat anything, and the clowns hopefully will compete as most fish do for the food, and begin to eat flake and frozen foods. Just make sure your clowns are in a well aged tank, and have been in it for a good while, and that the fish you add is well quarantined. New tanks and new fish seem to break out in deadly cases of ich that once you notice it, its usually too late. Hate to see a great pair of clowns die from Amyloodinium or Crypto.

Good luck,
Leland