what do you feed your clowns?

[JOSH]

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]

Mine likes my fingers :rolleyes:

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]

have you tried live brine yet my clowns love it.

[JOSH]

no, where do you get live brine?

[CLINT]

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

[sumpfinfishe]

Yes the smaller the fish-the smaller the food :biggrin:

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 :neutral:

[skylord]

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

[DanG]

The only thing my maroon won't eat now is the green flakes in the 4 flake frenzy my LFS carries. He chows down on brine, mysis, bloodworms and occasionally steals the chunks of shrimp that I have for my anemone.

[JOSH]

well im going to pick up something else today and i hope they eat

[Patwa]

one tip i'd recommend for those finicky fish is to soak the food in some freshly crushed garlic....sounds weird, but it does work most of the time...i know a few reefers who swear by this...

just crush up the garlic roughly, throw into a shot glass, then throw in some tank water and the food....stir, and let sit for a short while, then toss the garlic out and feed the fish.

Zach