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How do you get a Clown fish to eat?

How do I get my fish to stop eating feeder fish and start eating frozen foods?

  • I have a small clown knife that I got 2 weeks ago. He's about 2 inches right now. He had been fed guppy feeder fish all the time at the pet store. I feed him small goldfish but I think it's kinda sad to give him live food and I want to feed him frozen bloodworms but he won't eat it. How do you get a fish who has always eaten live food to start eating frozen food? I don't want to keep giving him feeder fish because I feed my other fish frozen food and I'm too lazy to buy goldfish every week.

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    This is a tough one (I too am wanting to find secondary food sources for my native tanks where I have game fish in them right now), but it can be done. First - do NOT feed your CK Goldfish (Goldfish are dirty, disease carrying feeders that if feed too much of will only give your main fish disease, and you headaches). Mix the diet up - feed him/her minnows (Rosey Reds, Chubs and Shiner Minnows) and then get yourself some frozen bloodwormsm, and just mix it up. Believe me - he/she will eat when faced with either starving or eating. It may take a couple of days of not feeding the CK to get them to that point, but keep this in mind...A Healthy Fish is a Hungry Fish! Peace! and good luck! *****EDIT***** Actually - wtfazzhole2000 makes a really good point. Some species do have problems digesting Bloodworms, and in fact are only semi nutritious. But - being carnivores, the CK must be fed chunks of meaty foods such as chopped beef heart, prawns, fish meat. They prefer to feed at night time, and you can still continue to feed them the feeders, just don't use Goldfish any longer IMHO.

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stop feeding it 4 a day then feed the fish frozen food but let it thraw 4 a while your will start eating when it hungey try that hope it helps

Shane S

First of all frozen blood worms is bad for any tank. It only increases the amount of organic material that will break down in your tank, and by volume if you look at the label most only contain 5% protein. which is like eating watermelon, it is all water and carry next to nothing in nutritional value. Look at the labels of frozen bloodworms vs. dry foods. 5% vs 45% tells you that dry food if he will eat it is alot better. To train him to eat dry food slowly just add less feeders and more pellet foods in, another alternativeis to cut beef heart( you can freeze them and they are dirt cheap to but) into small pieces that resembles the size of a feeder you are using, most large fish will gravitate to beef heart and it is alot safer to feed your fish with than feeders which can carry parasites like anchorworms. Good luck.

wtfazzhole

How often do you feed the fish? Skip a feeding and then try a few blood worms. Don't go to long without feeding him though. Some fish never take to the change of going to frozen food. Good Luck

tinar92

Try getting him to eat pieces of earthworm first. The movement may stimulate a feeding response. You can cut them up (they have five hearts) into manageable pieces. Once he is onto a second source of food, he may morereadiliy take other types of food as well. Also, mysis shrimp are a much cleaner and meatier source of food.

Alicia Marie

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