Picky Eaters

[CHG107]

I have been in the hobby for a few years now and have yet to run into this issue with any clownfish. I have always fed my fish San Francisco bay marine cuisine frozen food and all my previous fish have loved it. I recently broke down my 45 gallon and downsized to a Biocube29. My first additions were a pair of ORA Snowflake clowns and they have been doing great thus far. The only thing is they will eat one or two pieces then basically put the food in their mouth and spit it back out repeatedly and eventually just not eat it at all.

I am a light feeder so I know they are hungry, like I said they will eat a piece or two but then have no interest. I know they are hungry so not sure what is up. Is there a food that clownfish really love that I should switch to, or something I can do to my food now to make it a bit more enticing? I have always liked the price point on the San Francisco bay food but if my clowns need something better then I will get it for them.

 

[TheDecisiveHand]

I just ran into this issue I think. I think they only feed them pellets or flake to keep it cheap. They might not be used to good food yet. Plus living in a small tank so far they are pretty stupid.

All I know is mine did the exact same thing but I didnt try pellets because they both jumped out of my tank. They are the only fish I have had jump out on me in 10 years by the way, so I hope you figure it out.

I think they need something cheaper.

 

[Nina51]

i feed this...
http://arctipods.com/

i have a 14g cube with 2 snowflake clowns, a royal gramma, a cleaner shrimp. also have a 29g cube with 2 snowflakes, dwarf cherub angel, orange spotted goby, and a firefish. they ALL love this food! i'm a very light feeder, i just put a drop in at a time. usually after 3 or 4 drops, they're full. i rarely see any of this food drop to the bottom. when it hits the circulation pumps and flies all over the tank, it's like a freaking rodeo with fish falling all over each other to get to it.

 

[FTDelta]

Nina51 - looks like this one is on my must have list for fish food.

 

[CHG107]

I had a dracula goby jump out on me once ($130 down the drain) so I learned that lesson. Weird enough I gave them a little flake food and they went nuts over it. I would rather not feed them that to often though.

The dealer locator says there are no stores close by to me that sell the arctipods . Well I guess I will see if I can order it online somewhere then, I really liked my 7$ price but the little guys gotta eat! Here is a picture of them as well, they seem to love the tank and look healthy.



And here is one of my main distractions that keeps me from working on the tank sometimes....

 

[Nina51]

Nina51 - looks like this one is on my must have list for fish food.

i'm lucky i can get it locally (well, sort of...my only lfs is a little over an hour away).

your clowns look great. here are 2 of mine.
<a href="http://s6.photobucket.com/user/Ninapearl/media/clowns1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/Ninapearl/clowns1.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo clowns1.jpg"/></a>

whippet or greyhound? LOVE the stripes!
here are my distractions.
<a href="http://s6.photobucket.com/user/Ninapearl/media/bath2-5.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/Ninapearl/bath2-5.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo bath2-5.jpg"/></a>

 

[CHG107]

She's a 65 pound greyhound. Retired racer, got her straight from the track a few months ago and she's such a sweetheart. Loves to just be lazy and squeak a few toys here and there. I also have two italian greyhounds as well (just a miniature version of a greyhound).

 

[Nina51]

awesome! i've always heard that the retired racers are couch potatoes. all of my danes have come from rescue. i'll put my lazy danes up against your lazy greyhounds any day of the week. couch potatoeing is a fine art around here.

 

[CHG107]

Haha o yes that's all she is. She just follows me around going from one dog bed to the next