Clowns only taking pellet food

[GT350pwns]

Since my clowns made their way into my tank, I have tried to vary the food for them a bit. This mainly included frozen mysis and pellet food. My clowns have since developed a complete and total lack of interest in the mysis (but my cleaner shrimp go absolutely nuts over it) and will only take pellets. Is this a huge issue or will they be fine with pellets as their sole source of nutrition?

They seem healthy and swim around happily with great color. I'm just wondering if I should try to get them back to taking the mysis in conjunction with pellet food.

Also; The female(?) has taken to eating the pellets right out of my hand. Is this going to be an issue with aggression or for the male (as far as him getting enough food) in the future or is she just forever bold around my monstrous hands? lol

 

[davocean]

My clowns eat other foods, but they definitely prefer the NLS pellets.
The only thing to be aware of as far as hand feeding is making sure there are never any contaminants on your hand.

 

[ItzJustinN]

ive been feeding my clowns for over a year with pellets
(ocean nutrition formula one/two)
i have also tried to get them to eat rods and other mixed foods
but they just take larger pieces to their rbta and dont eat until i put pellets in.
long story short, the clowns look great, and are very healthy.

 

[Reefvet]

Many aqua-cultured clowns are raised on pellets because their a good food, can be affordable and easy to feed. I'd say chances are good your clowns are captive bread and eating what they grew up on. That's a good thing.

 

[OrionN]

FWIW, frozen food are way overrated. I feed my clowns exclusively with various flake foods and they breed like crazy with healthy babies. I loan my Onyx to a friend who have a LFS here in Corpus for breeding. They feed the clowns exclusively frozen food, thinking it is better for them. After 3 broods or so the babies started to have deformities. More so over the next few nests then start to not live then not hatch at all. I told them why I think they have problem with the babies but they did not think so. They looking into contamination a water conditions and various factors but cannot fix the problem. I took the clowns back and change the feeding regiment and got thousands of healthy babies from the same pair of clowns.
For fish that will eat dry food I feed them exclusively good and a variety of dry food. I only use frozen food mix into dry food because I have 7 Lyetail Antheas and a pair of Marine Beta that only eat frozen food. If not for these two species I would just use dry food

 

[Roger30]

My clowns are the same way! They eat only pellets! I've tried everything and I end up with a well fed clean up crew! I kinda like it now! No wasted food! Keeps my water clean!