small black clownfish : small food?

[boyooso]

I have a small black ocellaris clownfish. I got him a 1.5 weeks ago, I swear he was .75 inches when I recived im via fedex, today I 'd swear it was like 1 inch or larger (I'm sure it is perspective, I have a 3 inch orange female). In anycase, it wont' eat any sizable food. He won't eat the bits of mysis shrimp, he won't bits of shirmp, or any measurable bit of spirulina.... it will actually spit out he small bits of spirulina, but eat the very small bits....

I have found it will eat the super tiny frozen baby brine shrimp & daphnia and very small bits of spirulina.

At this point I am a little less worried about it starving as I am confident it is eating.

But, I am wondering if this is normal, and if in the future it will begin to eat the food that you can actually see

I should also mention that I have noticed it to eat more with a fresh garlic soak....

thanks in advance

 

[Juck]

A tank-raised fish like this will have been raised on dried foods,, so frozen and fresh food might take some getting used to, but I'm sure he'll get the idea eventually.

 

[animatedjing]

Hum thats a bit werid. . . Cuz my onyx clowns came in really small too, but they tried and tried to sallow pelleted foods. Flake and Cyclopeeze was what then mainly ate until they got a little bigger. Mine pretty much ate anything they could fit in the mouth.

 

[dantodd]

I would try meaty flakes. Ocean Nutrition Formula 1 and Prime Reef are both excellent

 

[boyooso]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7980326#post7980326 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Juck
A tank-raised fish like this will have been raised on dried foods,, so frozen and fresh food might take some getting used to, but I'm sure he'll get the idea eventually.

OK, that makes sense, kinda... I guess... really though thanks for the thoughts. for what ever reason I feed mostly frozen food and not flake or other dry foods, i suppose I will try some more dry foods, I guess.

But is is amazing to watch the little fish spit out anything larger than .5mm

thanks.

 

[Jovreefer]

one word ... Cyclopeeze!