Clownfish Feeding

[VictorMeldrew]

Hi all

i was just wondering how often you feed your clownfish, once or twice a day? and what do you feed them?

Thanks
VM

 

[SkiFletch]

Hi all

i was just wondering how often you feed your clownfish, once or twice a day? and what do you feed them?

Thanks
VM

Once here. Mine like a mix of mysis/brine/krill/roe (fish eggs from asian market). I also sometimes substitute Omega one marine flakes and/or pellets. When I go on vacation, they get pellets from the autofeeder.

 

[seffieuk]

Same as Ski, once a day - on a mix of

mysis/brine/krill/prawn and the occasional bit of mussel - i use mostly the frozen marine quartet

Seffie x

 

[xxBarneyxx]

I prefer to feed them smaller amounts but over a longer time rather then a large amount all in one go (just person preference really). I normally give them a little bit of flake in the morning then frozen mysis, bloodworm or brine shrimp in the evening. At the weekends when im home I give them about a cube and a bit of frozen food but put it in a little at a time during the day (which goes between 4 fish, 1 fireshrimp and 3 peppermint shrimp). Some days I dont feed them at all though.

I probably overfeed my fish but at the moment its not effecting water quality so I dont see the harm in it (if you go to overboard though it will effect your water). I wouldn't want to dump that amount of food in all in one go though.

Theres pros and cons to both ways (small amounts of food over a long period or larger amounts of food once a day). With small amounts of food over long periods you have to watch your water quality but the fish get a much more natural feeding (rather than one glut once a day which wouldn't happen in the wild). Where as with feeding once a day its less likely to mess up the water quality (but is not as natural IMO). Both methods work though so totally up to you

Personally if I was you with your tank once it is fully stocked I would look into a continuous feeding system with food for both the corals and fish. Have a look at the link below. Not a scientific study by any stretch of the imagination but I have read of other people having good success using similar systems. On a tank the size of mine its not worth the hassle but on yours when fully stocked it might be worth looking at.

http/64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:EbuQT...lient=firefox-a

 

[Colin_T]

if you don't want to breed them then feed once a day or once every couple of days. If you feed them 2 or 3 times a day they will come into breeding condition and start to prepare a nesting site and become highly territorial. However, clownfish are pretty placid even when guarding a territory, (by comparison to most damselfish) and in a reasonable size tank most species won't cause any real problems to the other tank mates.
I feed mine on marine mix, which is a combination of fresh prawn, fish, squid, spinach and various other marine organisms mixed in. Raw prawn is also good for bringing them into breeding condition.

 

[ben1987]

mine get half a block of gamma frozen twice a day. Then if im feeling nice they get a few flakes or pellets aswel.

didnt know they liked prawn though, going to try that