pellets vs frozen foods

[droidus]

I give my clown fish a variety of brine shrimp, bloodworms, and pellets. After a while, they stop taking to the pellets, and only eat the frozen stuff. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[James M]

Brine shrimp is like candy, you should switch over to mysis shrimp

 

[DSC reef]

Frozen and refrigerated always seemed to be preferred buy our live stock. If you want to stick with brine shrimp then I'd suggest gut loading live brine with phytoplankton or reefroids as they are not very nutritious compared to mysis. LRS reef frenzy and reef nutrition is what I recommend for frozen and refrigerated.

 

[droidus]

It's actually brine and mysis, sorry.

EDIT: I should also mention, I Have 2 clownfish, a spotted goby watchman, and a pistol shrimp.

 

[droidus]

LRS reef frenzy and reef nutrition is what I recommend for frozen and refrigerated.

What products would you recommend from them for my kind of fish?

 

[DSC reef]

Reef nutrition I would recommend mysis feast, beta brine, ROE and tigger pods. Those foods are great corals too but a little goes along way. LRS reef frenzy is our go to for frozen.

 

[ReeferReefer]

What products would you recommend from them for my kind of fish?

LRS reef Frenzy for days.

 

[lapin]

Live white worms, live black worms, live baby brine, live pods, a live clam once in a while.

 

[Jeremy K.A.]

Rods Food original, hikari, and sanfrancisco bay brand are my favorites. For Hikari and SFBB the list includes Brine Shrimp, Baby Brine shrimp, fish eggs, cyclops, mysis shrimp, diced squid, krill, rotifers, and Ocean Nutritions clams on the half shell as well. I don't feed frozen very often, maybe once or twice a week if I remember. I use Hikari pellets quite often and Ocean Nutrition pellets/flakes every day

 

[LIreefguy]

Lrs reef is a great product. Your fish will love it and great for them

But I just feed the mysis sheet. I get 3 sheets for 25. Lrs is 20 each. I feed a pack a week to my fish

So for me strictly based on money. It’s mysis 7 a week or lrs $20. I choose mysis

But if I had a smaller tank like yours with 4-5 fish I choose Larry

 

[Chilli]

My clown couple eats also no granulate only lobster eggs an brineshrimps, than i startet my feedingautomat because im often not at home (work, work, work....) and now they eat granulate excellent.

 

[droidus]

Is live food a risk?

 

[droidus]

is live food a risk?

 

[lapin]

is live food a risk?

It depends on what that live food is. If your feeding clams, oysters, white worms, black worms, pods and such then the risk is prob very very low as long as its fresh. If its stuff you collected out of the ocean, then yes there could be other things you dont want in your tank. I think the risk is very low. Kinda like a bad batch of salt mix.
If the water is very polluted you might not want to collect your own food.