well, when they do end up eating, i find my clowns like the best (as well as the rest of my tank including shrimp, and corals) go crazy over blended frozen food. I took about 3 whole shrimp (with shells, feet, head), a 4x4 sheet of nori (seewead, same stuff that is in sushi, just unseasoned) which is shredded, table veges (i used deshelled peas) a crushed vitamin C tablet and half a clove of garlic, 2 pinches of flake food put it all in a blender, boiled a packet of gelatin in a small amount of water (about i think 1/4 cup, maybe less) mixed all the ingredients together, added about 6-7 blocks of mysis and baby brine shrimp (both frozen) mixed and mixed, added a lot of selcon, put it in the freezer, waited about 3 hours, took it out, cut it up into cubes, re-froze it, and now i have some frozen jello for my fish, they love it.
Feel free to mix it up, you can put mussels in, clams, fish eggs, squid, octopus, silverslides, actual fish meat (try to use saltwater fish meat), some add yeast or rotifers or other micro food if they have filter feeders, scallops, etc. Very nutritious, almost all meat/veges and no filler (besides gelatin), you can vary it, if you have lots of herbivores, add more veges, less meat, and vise versa.
From feeding this the clowns have gotten darker, chubbier (in a healthy way), and just overall seem more healthy, and all the corals open up when i feed it which they have never done before with previous food (plain mysis, or brine shrimp, or flakes).
The added selcon, garlic, and vitamin C are all ingredients that are supposed to help the immune system, and i hear vitamin C is a great color enhancer.
So you could try this, and maybe the fish will like it, or maybe they like it when their meals look alive, what i do, is just shove the cube into the propellar of my powerhead which gushes it around the tank in small pieces looking alive.
Good luck and sorry to hear that one of your clowns died, hopefully the other one gets better.
Oh and if its live adult brine shrimp (older than a few days) it would be very healthy if you gut loaded them with some sort of micro food like phytoplankton or selcon, both are extremely high in HUFA's which is very good for saltwater fish.
Feel free to mix it up, you can put mussels in, clams, fish eggs, squid, octopus, silverslides, actual fish meat (try to use saltwater fish meat), some add yeast or rotifers or other micro food if they have filter feeders, scallops, etc. Very nutritious, almost all meat/veges and no filler (besides gelatin), you can vary it, if you have lots of herbivores, add more veges, less meat, and vise versa.
From feeding this the clowns have gotten darker, chubbier (in a healthy way), and just overall seem more healthy, and all the corals open up when i feed it which they have never done before with previous food (plain mysis, or brine shrimp, or flakes).
The added selcon, garlic, and vitamin C are all ingredients that are supposed to help the immune system, and i hear vitamin C is a great color enhancer.
So you could try this, and maybe the fish will like it, or maybe they like it when their meals look alive, what i do, is just shove the cube into the propellar of my powerhead which gushes it around the tank in small pieces looking alive.
Good luck and sorry to hear that one of your clowns died, hopefully the other one gets better.
Oh and if its live adult brine shrimp (older than a few days) it would be very healthy if you gut loaded them with some sort of micro food like phytoplankton or selcon, both are extremely high in HUFA's which is very good for saltwater fish.
