Clownfish not eating much

[Tofu Brady]

I have a snowflake ocelaris clown and it a juvinile ive had it for 2.5 weeks with another ocelaris and the other is a bit smaller but is eating more then then the other there like 2 inches ive tried tdo pleets small size and frozen brine shrimp is the clown just picky because it only eats like 1-3 pellets or 1-3 brine shrimp is it just picky pls help

 

[vetteguy53081]

Any unsual signs such as:
White and stringy poop
Cloudy/haze on their face or skin area?
Rapid breathing ?

try feeding mysis shrimp
flake food

It may be finicky also

Ammonia < .03
Nitrate < .4
ph 8.1-8.3
salinity 1.024-1.025
temp 77-79

 

[Tofu Brady]

Any unsual signs such as:
White and stringy poop
Cloudy/haze on their face or skin area?
Rapid breathing ?

try feeding mysis shrimp
flake food

It may be finicky also

Ammonia < .03
Nitrate < .4
ph 8.1-8.3
salinity 1.024-1.025
temp 77-79

No white stringy poop ive seen parameters are good im thinking mabye just finicky no rapid breathing

 

[Alexopora]

Any unsual signs such as:
White and stringy poop
Cloudy/haze on their face or skin area?
Rapid breathing ?

try feeding mysis shrimp
flake food

It may be finicky also

Ammonia < .03
Nitrate < .4
ph 8.1-8.3
salinity 1.024-1.025
temp 77-79

Agreed on mysis. If you have access to frozen mysis, get some. And get some garlic, chop them finely and mash them with water. Soak the mysis in the garlic water and feed them to your clowns. That always works for me in stimulating their appetite.

 

[Tofu Brady]

Agreed on mysis. If you have access to frozen mysis, get some. And get some garlic, chop them finely and mash them with water. Soak the mysis in the garlic water and feed them to your clowns. That always works for me in stimulating their appetite.

If they are 2 picky could they starve they eat some of the pellets then spit some out is this bad i have the tdo pellets could i soak the brine in garlic water??

 

[Alexopora]

If they are 2 picky could they starve they eat some of the pellets then spit some out is this bad i have the tdo pellets could i soak the brine in garlic water??

I’m not sure if they are just being picky or is there an underlying cause (being ill or stressed), but it doesnt hurt to try soaking your pellets and brine shrimp in garlic water to help stir up their appetite. When I first got my clowns about 8 months ago, the smaller and submissive one which i assume is the male, wasn’t eating and had white stringy poop. Soaking their food in mysis did help him eat and not spit out his food as much. 8 months later, he’s still with me.