Quality Fish Foods for Clownfish

Ron Popeil

Love them clownfish.
Have we improved our food selection at all for a high quality fish diet?

What foods should I be feeding that I am not?

Mysis, cyclopeeze...sure.

What pelleted foods should I look into? Flakes?

Any new foods on the market that show promise?
 
Rod's Food just released a breeders blend that is supposed to get fish to breed. Pretty new so I don't know if there are any reviews yet but Rod's has always made quality food.
 
I pretty much only feed the New Life Spectrum Thera A pellets at this point. I used to feed the frozen Formula One, but certain batches would make my skimmer go crazy. I have percs, orange skunks and akindynos that breed every 10 days or so, so it must not be too bad. The proof in the pudding would be the quality of the larvae, but I'm not trying to raise any babies at this point.
 
I prefer the elos pellets to NLF. Fewer phosphates and they don't dirty the water as much.. Also, You can really smell the difference when you compare them

I feed most elos and one a day something else.. Either homemade recipe from the wittenrich fish breeding book, mysis, cyclops, or sometimes brine shrimp to stimulate aggressive feeding..

Do any breeders out there have success feeding their broodstock with automatic feeders? It takes me a lot of time to feed all my pairs.. Not cool.
 
at reefapalooza i received a sample of food from reed mariculture. i was telling one of the guys there about blue stripe clowns and their annoying habit of losing their vibrant colors.

TDO - EP2 was the food sample i was handed.

Top Dressed Oto
high astaxanthin formula
sized 2.3 mm x 2.3 mm

it appeared to be a very high quality food that certainly piqued my interest. anyone else tried this line?
 
at reefapalooza i received a sample of food from reed mariculture. i was telling one of the guys there about blue stripe clowns and their annoying habit of losing their vibrant colors.

TDO - EP2 was the food sample i was handed.

Top Dressed Oto
high astaxanthin formula
sized 2.3 mm x 2.3 mm

it appeared to be a very high quality food that certainly piqued my interest. anyone else tried this line?

This is what I feed fry. A-C2. EP2 is biggest they make.
 
i think i might try some. they write on their website that its for adult and juvenile fish. ill look into it.
 
I just ordered my 6 month supply, I don't feed frozen everyday.
2 packs Rods food, 1x 16oz PE mysis, 1 nutrimar OVA.

I also feed NLS thera A.
I have heard great things about the TDO
 
I feed the typical PE-mysis and cyclops. I also feed Reef Caviar (a brand of fish eggs), and blender mush. I don't feed any dry foods, or manufactured frozen mixed foods, like Rod's.

At the moment, I only have one pair of perculas that's spawning. The clutches are more than 500 eggs. They spawn about twice a month, but I haven't really kept track. I'm not raising the young either, so???????

You may not believe this, and I honestly wouldn't if I wasn't seeing it for myself, but I purchased a very small pair of picassos. The larger of the two, had a pretty bad under bite. As it's growing, the under bite is getting less, and less, noticeable. I honestly thought this was strictly a genetic trait, and that skull shape was fixed at a very young age. If this change continues at its current rate, the fish probably won't have an under bite at all, by the time it's an adult. The only explanation I can come up with is the good diet. I feed them very well, two or three times a day.
 
i just received a pound of the TDO EP2 and a few ounces ofthe the Otohime EP2. my clowns seemed happy to consume it.

I still have plenty of the NLS pellets and a fresh batch of Ocean Nutrition flakes in the green container.

I think this, paired with the occasional mysis, scallop and shrimp (anemone food) should be a pretty rounded diet.

and with the new chrys i received, hopefully will maintain their color. fingers crossed.
 

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