TDO for clownfish coloring?

leighla wolf · Oct 19, 2020

My clowns are SA clowns that I’ve had almost 2 years. They’ve been on SA food this entire time. I’ve been hearing about TDO helping to “color up” the clownfish.
1. Is this a nutritionally complete food?
2. Does anyone have pictures they could post of differences in color change of their clowns?

Reverend Turtle · Oct 19, 2020

Yes it is nutritionally complete.
Here's a pic of my pair. One eating TDO daily for about a month, the other only a week.

leighla wolf · Oct 19, 2020

Reverend Turtle said:
Yes it is nutritionally complete.
Here's a pic of my pair. One eating TDO daily for about a month, the other only a week.

I will definitely be using this!

leighla wolf · Oct 19, 2020

leighla wolf said:
I will definitely be using this!

Which TDO did you choose?

Reverend Turtle · Oct 20, 2020

I went with the small or C2 size. Honestly until I added the second clown, I hadn't even noticed how much brighter the first ones color had gotten.

hikermike · Oct 20, 2020

SA? TDO?

ichthyogeek · Oct 20, 2020

hikermike said:
SA? TDO?

Sustainable Aquatics, and Top Dressed Otohime

Reverend Turtle · Oct 20, 2020

hikermike said:
SA? TDO?

TDO Chroma boost is from Reef Nutrition.

TDO CHROMA BOOST™

Reef Nutrition’s TDO Chroma Boost™ pellets create healthy animals and eye-popping color in many animals. Terrific Betta fish food, tetra fish food, clownfish food and more! “Top-dressed” with Haematococcus pluvialis – excellent source of astaxanthin for nutrition and growth too. Professional...

reefnutrition.com

hikermike · Oct 21, 2020

Thanks

mattzang · Oct 21, 2020

https://reefs.com/2017/11/10/new-product-reef-nutrition-apbreed-tdo-chroma-boost-fish-food/

that goes over coloration and astaxanthin

Reef Nutrition · Oct 21, 2020

These are images from a thread we posted about how TDO really increases coloration in certain species of clownfish (A. percula and A. ocellaris) https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/clownfish-tdo-amazing-wild-type-coloration.342461/

-Chad

leighla wolf · Oct 21, 2020

Wowowow! Great information from the video and from the link! Thank you! Now does anyone know sizing for the food? They’re currently on .8 mm SA pellets and pretty small (about 1.5 inches) and about 1.5 years old or so. They handle these pellets really well and I don’t want them choking! I would definitely like to mix it up because they’re fed 2x a day, little pigs that they are!

Reverend Turtle · Oct 21, 2020

My clowns are only little guys, 1" maybe 1¼". They eat the small C2 easily. Seems the average size of the granules is about 1mm, but there is variation in the sizes.

Labora · Oct 21, 2020

smaller clowns should take small but medium is good for adults ocellaris and young clarkiis.

My clowns love it but I only recently learned that this needs to be refrigerated. Hoping mine is still good as I never have.

Reverend Turtle · Oct 21, 2020

Labora said:
smaller clowns should take small but medium is good for adults ocellaris and young clarkiis.

My clowns love it but I only recently learned that this needs to be refrigerated. Hoping mine is still good as I never have.

Doesn't absolutely need refrigeration, it increases shelf life up to a year or more. If it absolutely had to be refrigerated, they wouldn't recommend it for auto feeders.
I know I was confused about it too, but logically it couldn't spend a week in an auto feeder if it had to be kept cold.

Reef Nutrition · Oct 21, 2020

Labora said:
smaller clowns should take small but medium is good for adults ocellaris and young clarkiis.

My clowns love it but I only recently learned that this needs to be refrigerated. Hoping mine is still good as I never have.

It's ok that you haven't refrigerated it. We recommend refrigeration for long term storage, but some hobbyists don't and have reported nothing negative.

Reverend Turtle · Nov 7, 2020

Just an update, pictures of approximately 1 month and 2 months on TDO. Sorry for the poor quality, I really need a good camera, or a better phone.

leighla wolf · Nov 7, 2020

Reverend Turtle said:
Just an update, pictures of approximately 1 month and 2 months on TDO. Sorry for the poor quality, I really need a good camera, or a better phone.

Yeah your pictures and claim actually convinced me to order some! Haha. My two pigs love it and it has now been added to the rotation (SA, TDO, and Rods once a week as a treat). We shall see how it goes! If anything it’s just a different food for them to enjoy. Apparently I grossly overfeed considering I let each clown eat about 15 pellets....they are now limited to five since my female has developed a box shape. A friend who’s reefed longer than me said she was the most obese fish he ever saw.

it honestly didn’t bother me but I don’t want her developing issues due to obesity.