feeding clown fish

[ericmcginn5]

so i bout a pair of clown fish a couple weeks ago doing grreat.
but when i first got them they woudnot eat mysis shrimp or furmula one and the store said to wait a few days i did and they still didnt eat so i asked what they feed them and they said dey hatchery diet i tryed that and they ate that so i was wondering if it is a good food? do i need to mix it with something else?
will they start to eat my frozen food?

 

[Wmich2008]

I feed my clowns the dry hatchery diet pellets and they seem to love it. Both have been growing well and have been healthy for over a year.

 

[ericmcginn5]

ok thank you

 

[MSeg]

If you're worried about nutrition, you could soak the dry food in a vitamin/HUFA supplement before feeding?

 

[terrypercula]

Mine pound mysis shrimp. They'll jump out of the water for them lol what kind of mysis did you try feeding? How were they acclimated? And what were they fed at the store you bought them from?

 

[ericmcginn5]

i dripp aclemated frozen shrimp will try to feed it again tomoro and at the store they were feed the hatchery diet

 

[pmcarbrey]

i dripp aclemated frozen shrimp will try to feed it again tomoro and at the store they were feed the hatchery diet

Wait.... you drip acclimated frozen shrimp?????

 

[toky916]

I feed cyclopeaze brings out more color

 

[kiba12]

My clown eats nls pellets and mysis but for some reason doesnt touch the pe mysis, theyre probably too big

 

[benjaminoliver]

Two stickys on here that should help you out with feeding your clowns.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1381958

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=785228

 

[Hzuiel]

It kind of depends on the size of the clowns, what they can eat. If they're really little they can't fit most mysis in their mouth. I fed mine frozen brine and frozen reef planketon(red colored) and they seemed to like it, but so much went to waste no matter how tiny of an amount i tried to feed. I shaved off little slices with a knife from each frozen mini block of food and it was still always too much. I have mostly been giving them float/sink pellets lately and they gobble them. The little one has a hard time fitting the 1mm pellets in his mouth though, so I got some .5mm freshwater pellets from the same company and feed a little of both.