what do you feed your clowns?

[gemini aquarius(t)]

so what do you feed your clown babies and at what age also what do you feed your broodstock

thx
xavier

 

[Kathy55g]

The morning after hatch, I feed them phytoplankton enriched rotifers, 15 per ml tank water. I keep the larval tank green and cloudy with live phytoplankton. I feed them rotifers twice a day until about day 8. Day 5 or 6 I feed them rotifers and newly hatched brine shrimp from eggs previously decapsulated. Day 6 or 7 I feed them rotifers, nhbs, and Otohime A, just a dusting. (Day 7 I put them on system water, just a trickle, so they have a continuous water change. Dry food rots quickly, and we want to keep the ammonia down.) I stop with the rotifers on day 8, stop with the nhbs on day 11 when the next hatch needs them, and continue on with Otohime A until the fish are big enough for Otohime B1. I mix in a little dry cyclopeeze, because I like the color it gives them. I feed mine with automatic feeders whenever possible, because I have a day job. My fish eat 3 times a day, and some are ready to be sold (1.25 inches) in 4 months.

I feed my spawning clownfish a cube of frozen mysis or plankton, or spirulina brine shrimp, or mixed frozen Ocean Nutrition formulas 1 and 2 or dry formulas 1 or 2 or mixed frozen seafood with cyclopeeze, or New Spectrum pellets. I feed them a lot, and that is why my display tank is covered in algae. My clownfish started spawning 2 months ago and they lay huge nests every 11 days. I don't care about the algae.

 

[gemini aquarius(t)]

thanks for responding in such detail

i appreciate it