What do clownfish eat is a recurring question.
Clownfish are omnivore and not picky at all. They eat almost everything and are not fussy about their diet.
This means it is not difficult to feed them.
They like to eat many commonly available commercial frozen foods:
1. brine
shrimp
2. chopped
marine flesh
3. squids
4. cope
pods
5. prawns
6. mysid
shrimps
7 . blood worms
8. mussels
9. white
fish
10. Spirulina
Clown fish seems quite fond of live brine
shrimp, but it it is better do not feed it to them to often as it makes them
hyper.
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Live brine shrimp can be basically used as a treat.
Of course, you need to cut it in small bit
size pieces for them.
They will also
eat dry foods like:
High quality
marine flakes
Freeze-dried or
granulated foods.
Then, most clown
fish also eat algae, which accounts for about 25 % of its diet in
captivity.
The “perfect
diet” is a good balance between meaty food and some greens.
I have recently heard that somebody is
feeding feed dry seaweed only.
I think that's wrong, as they are not
vegetarian.
When feeding with frozen food just remember
that you do not overfeed.
It is quite easy to make such mistake and overfeed
with frozen blocks: a half block twice a week would be perfect for clownfish,
and then flakes in between.
It is much
better to feed them a few times a day
(small quantities), instead of concentrating their feeding once a day.
“Saturation Feeding Technique”
1. Grind, cut, or size the food into small
bite sized pieces that your clownfish
can eat in one bite.
2. You will know it is small enough when the
fish eats it instead of biting,
spiting, biting and spiting.
3. Drop or hand a couple of small pieces to your clowns.
5. Keep on dropping one or a
couple of pieces of food near the clownfish
till the fish either turns their
nose up at it or just continually spit it out
like they would with larger
pieces.
At this point the fish have been fed to
“saturation”.
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