Many mistakenly believe that clownfish are herbivores and ought to be fed pellets derived from plants and vegetables.
In truth, Clownfish are omnivores and require both meat and vegetables in their diet.
In your selection of what to feed a clownfish, make sure you choose pellets high in vitamins.
In the open water, clownfish eat whenever they can.
They feed on small shrimp, algae, zooplankton and copepods.
In the winter, their diet naturally contains more vegetable matter and in the summertime, their diet is comprised mostly of protein from meat matter.
Clownfish have a characteristic of feeding when the opportunity presents itself and thus have an innate instinct to horde food automatically.
They are not able to travel far from their anemone host without risking themselves becoming food as well, and thus need for food to come near them.
In addition, they also have a built-in instinct to protect and feed their host anemone.
Because of these instincts, the clownfish eats small bits and pieces of food and takes the larger pieces which it can't eat in one bite to its anemone host either for storage or for the anemone to eat as well.
What to feed a clownfish will depend on your availability.
They eat a varied diet continuously and if your schedule does not permit you to feed them nutritious food throughout the day, you will need to feed your clownfish very nutritious food regularly.
In deciding what to feed a clownfish you might want to consider saturation feeding.
This requires food to be cut or ground into bite sized pieces small enough for your clownfish to be able to eat it in one bite.
You will know the food is small enough when the clownfish doesn't spit it out.
Drop some pieces into the aquarium and give the clownfish time to eat the food before offering more.
They tend to store extra food causing your aquarium to become polluted, so a little at a time is best.
Continually drop food for your fish until he starts to spit some out.
This is when you know you have fed your fish to saturation point.
You will need to feed your clownfish a varied diet of shrimp, Ocean Nutrition frozen formula one and two, Cyclop-eeze, a combination of spirulina flakes, table shrimps, clams, scallops and Selco.
One of the staples in the clownfish diet would be brine shrimp which tastes extremely delicious to them.
This tastes very delicious to them.
Make sure that in making your decision as to what to feed a clownfish that you fortify whatever you choose to feed them with vitamins.
Aside from what to feed a clownfish, another concern of yours might be when to feed it.
Once a day is good enough, as long as you feed them to saturation point.
This is sufficient to keep their health in optimal levels and at the same time maintain a clean aquarium tank.
Feeding them to saturation with high quality food will let you skip days if you need to, which gives you a lot of convenience.
©Vanessa Tabora 2009
In truth, Clownfish are omnivores and require both meat and vegetables in their diet.
In your selection of what to feed a clownfish, make sure you choose pellets high in vitamins.
In the open water, clownfish eat whenever they can.
They feed on small shrimp, algae, zooplankton and copepods.
In the winter, their diet naturally contains more vegetable matter and in the summertime, their diet is comprised mostly of protein from meat matter.
Clownfish have a characteristic of feeding when the opportunity presents itself and thus have an innate instinct to horde food automatically.
They are not able to travel far from their anemone host without risking themselves becoming food as well, and thus need for food to come near them.
In addition, they also have a built-in instinct to protect and feed their host anemone.
Because of these instincts, the clownfish eats small bits and pieces of food and takes the larger pieces which it can't eat in one bite to its anemone host either for storage or for the anemone to eat as well.
What to feed a clownfish will depend on your availability.
They eat a varied diet continuously and if your schedule does not permit you to feed them nutritious food throughout the day, you will need to feed your clownfish very nutritious food regularly.
In deciding what to feed a clownfish you might want to consider saturation feeding.
This requires food to be cut or ground into bite sized pieces small enough for your clownfish to be able to eat it in one bite.
You will know the food is small enough when the clownfish doesn't spit it out.
Drop some pieces into the aquarium and give the clownfish time to eat the food before offering more.
They tend to store extra food causing your aquarium to become polluted, so a little at a time is best.
Continually drop food for your fish until he starts to spit some out.
This is when you know you have fed your fish to saturation point.
You will need to feed your clownfish a varied diet of shrimp, Ocean Nutrition frozen formula one and two, Cyclop-eeze, a combination of spirulina flakes, table shrimps, clams, scallops and Selco.
One of the staples in the clownfish diet would be brine shrimp which tastes extremely delicious to them.
This tastes very delicious to them.
Make sure that in making your decision as to what to feed a clownfish that you fortify whatever you choose to feed them with vitamins.
Aside from what to feed a clownfish, another concern of yours might be when to feed it.
Once a day is good enough, as long as you feed them to saturation point.
This is sufficient to keep their health in optimal levels and at the same time maintain a clean aquarium tank.
Feeding them to saturation with high quality food will let you skip days if you need to, which gives you a lot of convenience.
©Vanessa Tabora 2009
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