Clowns not eating...

prosnow · #1 04-09-2006, 09:22 PM

Can get my clowns to start eating...i've tryed mysis, and brine shrimp now, even soaked the food in garlic...can anyone offer some advice ??

OCDP · #2 04-09-2006, 09:28 PM

What kind of clowns are they?
What are your tank paramaters? (salinity, ammonia, nitrite)
What's your pH?
Did you acclimate the fish?

Haha , lots of questions hey. Have you tried flakes or pellets yet?

prosnow · #3 04-09-2006, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OCDP

What kind of clowns are they?
What are your tank paramaters? (salinity, ammonia, nitrite)
What's your pH?
Did you acclimate the fish?

Haha , lots of questions hey. Have you tried flakes or pellets yet?

salinity - 1.025
ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0
PH 7.8

they are true perc's, and yes i did acclimate the fish, the lfs salinity was 1.020 so i dripped them for over an hour and a half.

nope havent tryed pellets of flake yet

Ruth · #4 04-09-2006, 09:52 PM

How long have you had them for? It is not unusual for fish to go a few days without eating when first introduced to your tank however clowns are generally piggies and start to eat fairly quickly. If your tank has been established for a while, and I think yours has, there is probably quite a bit for them to eat in the tank so I wouldn't be too worried about it unless it stretches out to more than 5 or 6 days.

prosnow · #5 04-10-2006, 01:50 AM

they've only been in there since friday, so hopefully they do start eating more..there finally swimming around more and more..they seem to keep there distance from my hammer coral tho, found that kind of weird, but we'll see what happens in time i guess

naesco · #6 04-10-2006, 04:22 AM

Put some food in the tank and stay away from the tank (out of the room) for a day. By showing our concern and monkeying around the tank every hour, we often scare new arrivals.

seashells · #7 04-10-2006, 06:19 AM

Try hatching some brine shrimp and feeding the tank. When I introduce a new fish into the tank I usually give live food the next day. The brine shrimp are quick and easy. Usually get a good feeding response.

Doug

Willow · #8 04-10-2006, 06:23 AM

cyclopeze

prosnow · #9 04-10-2006, 06:30 AM

sucks my friend is out of town, i could have just grabbed a pinch of cycopeze to try on them, oh well i'll hit up one of the store's 2 morrow and pick some up and give that a try i guess,

Ruth · #10 04-10-2006, 12:13 PM

Try and get your hands on some of the frozen if you can. The fish seem to like it a lot better.