Clownfish not eating much

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I have tried feeding them flakes and brine shrimp and they have eaten some but not much they still look healthy but i have had them for a week now and i want them to eat i ordered a sinking pellet to try that is coming wednesday but does anyone have any other ideas of what i can do?
 

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I have tried feeding them flakes and brine shrimp and they have eaten some but not much they still look healthy but i have had them for a week now and i want them to eat i ordered a sinking pellet to try that is coming wednesday but does anyone have any other ideas of what i can do?
I soaked hikari marine s pellets in RO water briefly to soften them and they really enjoyed that
 

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I would find out what your lfs feeds their clowns, and then get some of that. When I first got my clowns, they wouldn’t eat anything except what they had been fed at the lfs.
 

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Or live food. White worms, Black worms or Frozen mysis
 

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