Quality Fish Foods for Clownfish
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Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
ha. ok ok ok. once i get everything organized in there, i will.
It's pretty hard to compare foods, IMO.
I've raised a trio of tank raised ocellaris into a spawning group using a particular feeding regimen, but knowing that it is better or worse than something else seems virtually impossible to me without a lot of careful comparisons that almost none of us ever do.
That said, they seem to be thriving and are very colorful on Arctipods (7 times per day on a dosing pump), dried cyclopeeze in the AM, a cube of frozen Prime Reef in the pm, and a frozen cube of Ocean Nutrition mysis later in the pm. This, of course, feeds a bunch of fish, not just the clown trio.
I've raised a trio of tank raised ocellaris into a spawning group using a particular feeding regimen, but knowing that it is better or worse than something else seems virtually impossible to me without a lot of careful comparisons that almost none of us ever do.
That said, they seem to be thriving and are very colorful on Arctipods (7 times per day on a dosing pump), dried cyclopeeze in the AM, a cube of frozen Prime Reef in the pm, and a frozen cube of Ocean Nutrition mysis later in the pm. This, of course, feeds a bunch of fish, not just the clown trio.
RubberFrog
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How much do you guys feed your clowns?
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
i have been feeding my clowns several times a day every day. i want them super fat. and they are happy to oblige.
i make my own food. yellow fin tuna, wild salmon, oyster,clams, squid, octopus, mussels, mysis, cyclops, spiralina powder, 3 types of kelp, 2 types of nori.
then i use nls pellets.
i feed my clowns 6 times a day.
then i have a big can of freeze dried cyclops that i put into a condiment squirt bottle that i squirt in the tanks 2x a day. clowns go ape for cyclops squirted in the tanks.
i got my temp up to 84 and my salinity down to 18ppm to get help them eat so much.
then i use nls pellets.
i feed my clowns 6 times a day.
then i have a big can of freeze dried cyclops that i put into a condiment squirt bottle that i squirt in the tanks 2x a day. clowns go ape for cyclops squirted in the tanks.
i got my temp up to 84 and my salinity down to 18ppm to get help them eat so much.
jscarlata
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this is all great info, ive been watching my semi picassos for a while now and i feel as though they are looking for something specific that im not giving them. My lights come on around 5pm, i usally get home from work around 6:30/7. so the first feeding i do is right after i say hi to my family, i run down and put a mix of dry food into a feeding ring, i use Ocean nutrition Formula 1, nls pellets, some formula 2 and maybe some prime reef flakes or brine flakes as well.
At that feeding they eat quite well, usually voracious. Later in the evening after I eat, i will defrost a mix of frozen foods and put small amounts in every few hours until i go to bed or lights out around 1am. I noticed that they eat well on the frist batch of frozen i put in, but then subsequelty they just swim up to everything and pass it up. then they swim frantically back and forth, dodging their heads left and right, sort of like what oscars do when they see you by the tank, the "feed me" dance...this happened last night and i tried little bits of each dry food separatley, and they took nothing. then i tried little bits of frozen food separatley, but again they took nothing (mysis, super brine, clams, prime reef). i finally opened up some Nutrimar Ova and they attacked it, but the eggs are sooo small, i doubt they got their fill. I have tried giving them green sea veggies, formula 2 flakes and spirulina flakes and they seem to have little to no interest in the veggies. my concern is that out of all the fish, these seem to be growing VERY slowly, barely at all. the bigger of the 2 clowns is always pacing the front of the tank nervously. They have been in the tank since sept, all the other fish are healthy and growing, there are no fish bullying them either. there is some good info on foods here, i was just wondering if there were other suggestions, on both diet as well as their behavior, the constant pacing has be a little worried...
note, after i defrost my forzen food, i rinse it in RO, then soak some Selcon and a few drops of vitamin c, and occasionally a drop or two of garlic
At that feeding they eat quite well, usually voracious. Later in the evening after I eat, i will defrost a mix of frozen foods and put small amounts in every few hours until i go to bed or lights out around 1am. I noticed that they eat well on the frist batch of frozen i put in, but then subsequelty they just swim up to everything and pass it up. then they swim frantically back and forth, dodging their heads left and right, sort of like what oscars do when they see you by the tank, the "feed me" dance...this happened last night and i tried little bits of each dry food separatley, and they took nothing. then i tried little bits of frozen food separatley, but again they took nothing (mysis, super brine, clams, prime reef). i finally opened up some Nutrimar Ova and they attacked it, but the eggs are sooo small, i doubt they got their fill. I have tried giving them green sea veggies, formula 2 flakes and spirulina flakes and they seem to have little to no interest in the veggies. my concern is that out of all the fish, these seem to be growing VERY slowly, barely at all. the bigger of the 2 clowns is always pacing the front of the tank nervously. They have been in the tank since sept, all the other fish are healthy and growing, there are no fish bullying them either. there is some good info on foods here, i was just wondering if there were other suggestions, on both diet as well as their behavior, the constant pacing has be a little worried...
note, after i defrost my forzen food, i rinse it in RO, then soak some Selcon and a few drops of vitamin c, and occasionally a drop or two of garlic
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E.intheC
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This is a great thread. I was reading a bit today about their diet in the wild, and it looks like most clownfish consume zooplankton and leftover fish from their host anemones. They also eat algae.
My clowns have never been too picky, but I want my pair to start breeding (and produce healthy young), so I've been paying much more attention.
I've heard most Rod's food contains garlic. I'm not a fan.
My clowns have never been too picky, but I want my pair to start breeding (and produce healthy young), so I've been paying much more attention.
I've heard most Rod's food contains garlic. I'm not a fan.
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