Clowns eating better?

[discostew]

Hey all i have 1 week old clowns in my mixed reef tank. First saltwater fish. Some concerns about feeding. Recommendations are feed as much as they eat in 1-2 minutes. I know clowns on arrival can take some getting used to. They did not eat first two days. I have frozen PE mysis, tdo chroma pellets and ocean nutrition flakes. I turn pumps off and let pellets drop and they may mouth 1 and then spit it out. The mysis they will take and swallow 2-3 bites and then rest falls to bottom. I then turn on pumps and they may take a few more bites of small particles. But i basically feed one mysis piece at a time by hand. Is the 3-4 bites of food enough food for them? Similar situation with flakes. They take 2-3 bites on way down then some more when i turn pumps back on. They will only eat what flies past them they won’t really leave their corner.
How do i know they are getting enough? These are small clowns. I want to avoid over feeding the tank as there is already some algae on rocks, but not sure if what they are getting is enough. I would love for them to eat the pellets. Would mysis and flakes be enough?

thanks!

 

[lapin]

How do i know they are getting enough? These are small clowns. I want to avoid over feeding the tank as there is already some algae on rocks, but not sure if what they are getting is enough. I would love for them to eat the pellets. Would mysis and flakes be enough?

For now thats fine. They will eat more as time goes on. Try a few pellets for time to time. Maybe the pellets are too big. Since we dont know what they were raised on we cant match the diet they were used to getting. You can also try other frozen foods.
Tank raised clowns might never move from their corner much, too chase food.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

personally I try to offer as much variety as possible, I have about a dozen different foods that I alternate. I also dont believe in counting the food pieces that go into a tank, we dont feed the fish, we feed the tank. You mention you have a mixed reef so I imagine you have pods and amphipods and different kinds of worms, different bacteria's, etc... there are thousands of lives in the tank that need to be fed.

 

[discostew]

It’s a newer tank (2 months). Pods yes, some rock algae. No worms or other hitchhikers that i know of. Are the dry blood worms and brine nutritious or are they snacks/fillers?

personally I try to offer as much variety as possible, I have about a dozen different foods that I alternate. I also dont believe in counting the food pieces that go into a tank, we dont feed the fish, we feed the tank. You mention you have a mixed reef so I imagine you have pods and amphipods and different kinds of worms, different bacteria's, etc... there are thousands of lives in the tank that need to be fed.