Clownfish food

[Venzzla]

What fish food do clownfish like best ? I recently purchased 2 clowns and one of the two (female) isn’t eating much. It’s only been about 1.5 days. I have tried Mysis, reef frenzy and live blood worms. I also have tried garlic. Doe clowns typically like brine better ? I also have formula one that I haven’t tried yet.

 

[lapin]

I feed mine.
Live: white worms, black worms, hatched brine shrimp. Sometimes a live clam or mussel when I make a pot for dinner.
Frozen: Spiralina brine shrimp, Mysis, Rotifers, PE Calanus, Rods food
Depending on where you got them and how they were fed they might not be thinking what you are giving them is food.
TDO pellets from Reeds are sometimes used to raise baby clowns.
Mine lay eggs every 2 weeks

 

[KingGrewe]

Clowns sometimes don't eat for a while after moving to a new tank. Mine took about a week to start eating. Just keep trying to feed small amounts of food every day until they decide to start eating. Once they start they'll eat anything you throw into the tank.
I feed mine NLS pellets, Rods fish food, and frozen mysis.

 

[Venzzla]

Clowns sometimes don't eat for a while after moving to a new tank. Mine took about a week to start eating. Just keep trying to feed small amounts of food every day until they decide to start eating. Once they start they'll eat anything you throw into the tank.
I feed mine NLS pellets, Rods fish food, and frozen mysis.

I have heard great things about rods fish. Do you know best place to get it from? LFS doesn’t carry it.

 

[KingGrewe]

I have heard great things about rods fish. Do you know best place to get it from? LFS doesn’t carry it.

Rods tries to support LFS's by not selling online. So the only place to get it is through LFS. You can buy it on websites like LiveAquaria, but then you'd have to pay for 1 day shipping which makes it ridiculously overpriced. If your LFS doesn't sell it you may be able to get them to order it for you, but that depends on the store.

 

[67chevellemalibu2]

I have four clowns that eat pellets, flakes, frozen bloodworms, minced krill and mysis with no issues.

 

[MTBake]

Here's the 2 foods I use the most...

 

[DSC reef]

Our clowns liked reef nutrition refrigerated foods, TDO chroma boost pellets (small) and LRS reef frenzy. Occasionally fed live brine that we gut loaded with phytoplankton and reef roids.

 

[Venzzla]

Rods tries to support LFS's by not selling online. So the only place to get it is through LFS. You can buy it on websites like LiveAquaria, but then you'd have to pay for 1 day shipping which makes it ridiculously overpriced. If your LFS doesn't sell it you may be able to get them to order it for you, but that depends on the store.

Maybe I will order a fish or two to justify the shipping;)

 

[KingGrewe]

Maybe I will order a fish or two to justify the shipping;)

Only reasonable thing to do

 

[Evan28395950]

Yeah 1+ on rods, oddly after I started feeding it, one week later one of my anemone hosted my clownfish for the first time, first time for the months I had the fish. My lfs don’t have it, so I buy at aquashella or in bulk online

 

[lapin]

You can always call or email and ask who in your area stocks it
https://rodsfood.com/

 

[MTBake]

Yeah 1+ on rods, oddly after I started feeding it, one week later one of my anemone hosted my clownfish for the first time, first time for the months I had the fish. My lfs don’t have it, so I buy at aquashella or in bulk online

Rod is, or at least was, a clownfish breeder. If I remember correctly, he was among the first to bring the onyx clown to market. You may be able to reach out him through his website to get his food into your LFS. He's local to me, so Rod's food is at all the decent LFS near me. I've met him at a few shows and his passion for the hobby is nice to see:)

 

[Reef.]

I feed mine.
Live: white worms, black worms, hatched brine shrimp. Sometimes a live clam or mussel when I make a pot for dinner.
Frozen: Spiralina brine shrimp, Mysis, Rotifers, PE Calanus, Rods food
Depending on where you got them and how they were fed they might not be thinking what you are giving them is food.
TDO pellets from Reeds are sometimes used to raise baby clowns.
Mine lay eggs every 2 weeks

@lapin

Sorry I know an old thread but had to ask about this, sounds really interesting, I would like to do something similar.
How do you go about feeding the live clam/mussels? Do you put the open shell in the tank and the clowns just pick at them?
I’m guessing that way as chopping them up, they would no longer be live!