Clownfish storing food

[will?]

I've recently gotten a pair of mature clarkii clownfish, and despite the stereotype, they are doing great, even with the little fish. Despite this, they have one major flaw, that is being their nature of hoarding or storing food. Instead of frozen whole foods, I recently switched to an API brand marine flakes and the fish have been fine on them, but I was just wondering if anyone has had the same experience? The clowns just take and food they can hold (prawn, fish, squid etc.) right back to their cave. They then keep the food and as you can imagine, it creates lots of ammonia. I'd love to feed them some whole foods (although brine shrimp and flakes are working fine) again, and was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience or solution? Thanks

P.s. I think the behaviour is them trying to feed a host, but not realising that they aren't feeding anything, or that they weren't fed enough at their previous home, and feel as though they need to store food.

 

[GARRIGA]

Seems squarely
:rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

 

[Doctorgori]

I dunno, perhaps it is like you said: a modification of thier feeding behavior: mine regularly take food back to whatever host they decide to live in

 

[will?]

I dunno, perhaps it is like you said: a modification of thier feeding behavior: mine regularly take food back to whatever host they decide to live in

That is my best bet, but its wierd that they think they have one, the aquarium they are from didn't have one either, so I can't really explain... But I do have a devil's hand toadstool that's growing fast, so hopefully in the next 6-12 months they might be able to host it and I can feed them frozen whole foods, fingers crossed

 

[Purpledaisy33]

In my fish only tank, the baby clarkii's do the same thing. They eat flakes and frozen mysis "on the spot," wherever they "catch" it. However without fail, when I feed algae wafers, they grab them and run immediately to "feed" them to their fake (silicone) anemone host. It's so cute to watch, but the wafers just pile up there. I guess I need to get a clean-up crew next.