How soon should ocellaris clownfish eat?

[ps2cho]

I got 2 of them yesterday afternoon and put them in my QT...
Put bag in the water for about 45mins, then half water change with the tank water, then 30mins later put them in the tank.

I fed them later that night and they didn't eat anything.

Woke up this morning...still food at the bottom. Just using regular flakes.

Could this be normal shock from the move?

 

[Jaypilot]

Clowns are good for this. just about every clown I ever got took about 3 days to a week to eat. The best advice that I could give is try a few different types of food, like NLS, flakes, maybe some frozen foods. Secondly I would say feed them VARY little until they start eating.

I would also recommend not letting food lay on the bottom over night. Vary few clowns will eat food off the bottom of the tank anyway, so all that the food is doing is increasing your bio load. So I would feed very little and then a few hours after that take a turkey baster and pull the left over food out of the tank.

Other then that just give them time and as much space as possible to settle down.