How to pellet train clownfish

[s0n1c87]

I bought a pair of clownfish from ML ytd. Henry said they are not pellet trained yet. tried to feed ytd and today with pellet, they are not eating. I even gave a few bloodworm today, they are also not interested.. How long can they survive w/o eating.. I scare before they become pellet train, they might go to heaven alr. :'(

[Jakuson]

buy some live food for them.. maybe try live brine shrimp first?

[brent]

Frozen mysis always seem to work for me.

Assuming that they have been eating at ML, they should be fine for at least 1 week without food. In fact, I think most people suggest not feeding them for the first day.

Once they are feeding on some other food like mysis, one way to get them pellet trained is by mixing the pellets with the mysis.

[Clement_jr]

they will straighten their thoughts when they get hungry

[Marvin Wang]

try soaking with garlic ?

[s0n1c87]

Hmm. This morning I wake up and see them. One of them is fading in color and skin looks abit peeling off like that. They are in the ioslation box inside my main tank as I wanna train them to eat pellet first. Any advise on the fading and peeling issue.? Isit dying?

[braincoral]

Drop a few floating pellets..

Then squashed it with ur fingers..

It will release the pellets smell..

When they hungry. .

They will est..

[kksg2000]

i mixed the pallet with amino acid .. worked Great!

[kksg2000]

i used brightwell maxamino.

[anothermix]

try rubbing ur pellet as u drop them in ur tank it will emit a strong smell. worked well for all my fishes. got them to feed on pellets within the first few days.

[brojj]

Hmm... I thought clownfish eat almost everything when they are hungry, unless they are sick, very sick.

[sty68]

Thought the same

[Happy13]

My clownfish even eat seaweed!

[cutedragon]

Ya man hungry fish is a angry fish lol

[rainmalawi]

I will also want to wean my clownfish off mysis and brineshrimp. Even with mysis and brineshrimp, my clown is not excited during feeding time. He just keep swimming up and down the tank wall. He does'nt swim in the middle of the tank among the rocks. Has been like this for 2 weeks since i got him.

[lazydevil]

are there other fishes in the tank which is forcing your clowns to a corner?

[cutedragon]

Do note the companions should not be aggressive rather friendly species

[Rxcp14]

ask uncle henry what he's feeding it with and just let it be as too much attention may stress the fish instead in my opinion... in any case, next time, need to be alil kiasu and try to get pellet feeding fishes... save the worries... all my clowns were like yours and didnt even feed and couldnt make it last time till i got a few from Ml that was tank bred... good luck!!

[cutedragon]

How ur clowns

[AngGuKueh]

Hey try this... normally clown fish will eat those food that flown faster...Try to use ur wavemaker or return pump water to blow ur pellet pass by them they will try to catch the food... and one or two times they will start eating good luck bro

[brojj]

I believe that the clownfish are too small to eat any pellets. Mouth still not big enough. Normally ML henry fishes have been train to eat pellets & his frozen gourmet. U can try his frozen food if the clownfish still dun eat the pellets. I got few cleaner wrasse from him before and they do eat his frozen food. They are able to survive for 11 mths.

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