Just wanted to know what the #reefsquad is feeding their clownfish. Livefood, pellet, frozen, flakes etc. Trying to put together the perfect mix so please comment your favorite brands and mixes!
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Clownfish diet?
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All my fish, including the clowns, are fed a mixture of flake and pellets via auto feeder in the morning. Then frozen mysis and brine in the evenings. They get some LRS every few days as well.
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But I've been feeding Dr Tim's make your own frozen food with added garlic, mealworm, and river shrimp.
Fish seem happy and fat. I use three cubes a day for my tank. It's for 6 fish, and all are fat and happy.
But I've been feeding Dr Tim's make your own frozen food with added garlic, mealworm, and river shrimp.
Fish seem happy and fat. I use three cubes a day for my tank. It's for 6 fish, and all are fat and happy.
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I feed my whole tank variety....believing it covers all bases. Alternating days of pellets, flakes, frozen black worms (wife won't let me keep live in the refrigerator), frozen mysis, frozen DIY blend, chopped table shrimp, and whenever I make tuna (using four cans), I rinse the cans in the tank, feeding the bits that come out of that.
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I'm almost exclusively feeding frozen..Hikari and PE mysis, LRS Reef Frenzy, occasionally blood worms as a treat , nori (yeah I have had clowns that ate nori) and NLS pellets.
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Mine gets New Spectrum 1.0mm pellets daily. Every 3 days I rotate between frozen Ocean Nutrition Mysis, Reef Plankton and Krill.
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That's quite the variety! Never heard of using tuna from a can but i think i'll try it!!
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Yeah I've been doing mysis also and they seem to love it!
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Need to try those live brine!!
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I might have to give that a try!!
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Hahahaha!!! My clown does seem to pick at algae around the tank but i've never tried nori haha. If they eat it, why not?
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True thanks for the reminder!!FYI, tuna packed in water, not oil!
Honestly, clowns will eat just about anything. They are among the least picky fish I have ever owned. You are good with with just about any carni/omnivore foods. Good luck!!!
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That's very true! Just want to make sure I'm giving variety and wanted some more ideas as to what i should feed them.
It's pretty easy to make. Just. Make sure you put a piece of cardboard under the tray it could message with. The tray is flexible and WILL spill when you try to move it from where u made it to the freezer. I know this from experience.
They also sell grinders with garlic, peas, shrimp, meal worms, and a few other things to add to the food.
Each tray makes 90 cubes. It usually lasts me around a month to a month and a half. The fish get fed every day, or every other depending on if I remember.
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.
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