Clownfish diet?

[fishnchip]

I always though variety is the key to feeding all fish. I feed my fish a little of everything, at least I thought I did until I read this article. Tuna out of a can is new to me and also black worms. I have a small 40 gal reef so i have to really watch how much i feed. So i make my own frozen cubes. Each cube is made of 4 different foods, from mysis shrimp, red worms, omnivore delight, brine shrimp, silverside. I also feed pellets when I just want to mix it up. Each cube of food is 1ml. And I know I'm not feeding enough at any one time. The reason I do so, is so the fish on my reef do there jobs and forage. Every fish has a role and I learned if I over feed they refuge to play that role, not only that in a small system as a 40gal overfeeding can lead to several problems really fast.

Do you buy the food frozen and then thaw it out to make your cubes?

 

[van7271]

Clowns will eat just about anything. When I scrape the glass in my tank my clowns follow along the scrapper eating the algae that is scrapped off.

 

[burtbollinger]

LRS Reef Frenzy Nano at 6PM....then a bit of Rod's Food @ 9:30 PM

 

[Volcmreefer]

Mysis soaked in Selcon

 

[K. Steven]

LRS Nano, TDO, PE pellets, brine shrimp, NLS pellets, Coral Frenzy pellets, PE Calanus, though none of my fish are too fond of the Calanus

 

[DeniseAndy]

I feed such a variety I will just list some of the items: flakes of mysis, brine, veggie, pellets of pristine, pellets of hikari, squid, clam in half shell, brine, mysis, krill, mussels, mixture of other frozen foods for mixed animals, etc. Oh, Nori too.

The clowns love it all, even the nori. They also like fingers if I leave them in too long. Then again, my triggers and puffer like to nibble my fingers too.

 

[jhoop]

Frozen brine shrimp, and Omega flakes with garlic. I have two breeding pairs. They are about 3 years old now.

 

[Cae]

Frozen mysis
Frozen brine
Fluval flakes once a week cause it's got greens in it for their digestion
Vitalis marine pellets. I like these because they are a soft sinking pellet and the fish aren't gulping air while trying to eat.

 

[jeffp1]

My oldest clown will fight the Tang over Nori strips. Also rotate between spectrum pellets and Mysis shrimp daily.

 

[kimwstockton]

We feed our clowns Reeds TDO from the time they are a week old. The TDO brings out the reds and blacks.

 

[fishnchip]

Just wanted to bring this thread back to life and see if anyone has tried any new foods? I've been feeding mine prime reef flakes and mysis but maybe I should be supplementing? Let me know!!

 

[DSC reef]

I would look into some of reef nutritions line like mysis max, roe, copepod max. TDO chroma boost is a great pellet as well.

 

[fishnchip]

I would look into some of reef nutritions line like mysis max, roe, copepod max. TDO chroma boost is a great pellet as well.

thank you! will look into these for sure