Everyone list your clown loaches main food
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- Canyoncarver
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Everyone list your clown loaches main food
So like the title states, what is your clowns main diet
- Graeme McKellar
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I vary their diet as much as I can but the two main foods I use would be New Life Spectrum 3mm sinking pellets and HBH Shrimp Pellets.
My Clowns are 5" - 7" so the larger pellet size suits them well. They also get zuchini,live black worms,krill,Hikari carnivore tabs and algae disks,bloodworms and brine shrimp. Cheers Graeme.
My Clowns are 5" - 7" so the larger pellet size suits them well. They also get zuchini,live black worms,krill,Hikari carnivore tabs and algae disks,bloodworms and brine shrimp. Cheers Graeme.
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Hi there,
Main foods are :
Tropical Flake
Algae tablets
Blood worm (frozen and freeze dried)
Cucumber
Courgette
Some treats are :
Sweet corn
Melon
Chicken
Fish
Prawns
Lettuce leaves
I tend to vary their diet as much as I can; although some of it depends on what we eat as well (I always give them some of our seafood/salad)
Stonecoloured
Main foods are :
Tropical Flake
Algae tablets
Blood worm (frozen and freeze dried)
Cucumber
Courgette
Some treats are :
Sweet corn
Melon
Chicken
Fish
Prawns
Lettuce leaves
I tend to vary their diet as much as I can; although some of it depends on what we eat as well (I always give them some of our seafood/salad)
Stonecoloured
whatever's in the fridge that has a fishiness: conch, prawns, tinned tuna, salmon. Also hard-boiled eggs, zucchini, cucumber, akee, chicken heart, dead lizards/frogs I take from the cat, carrots, clams, crab, lobster, pill-bugs, compost-maggots, ant eggs, "scuds", aloe, assorted pond-snails, guppies, live algae and watercress and whatever they seem to find in the substrate... which seems to be a lot. They also do well on angelfish eggs. Take care not to feed anything that's freezer-burnt. Also take care that your prawns are not from places that use particular antibiotics/chemicals in the rearing process as these are often fish toxic (not to mention human carcinogenic).
Oddly they don't really like earth-worms.
Staple is actually high-end "Science Diet" cat food, as the wife's hypochondriac/spoiled rotten cats won't eat it once it gets stale in the bowl. Fish love it and are looking brilliant for it.
Oddly they don't really like earth-worms.
Staple is actually high-end "Science Diet" cat food, as the wife's hypochondriac/spoiled rotten cats won't eat it once it gets stale in the bowl. Fish love it and are looking brilliant for it.
"I can eat 50 eggs !"
- Canyoncarver
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Thanks for the replies. I guess I have to perform a search to find my own posts? I have a couple of clowns approx. seven inches in length. I have tried a couple of different veggie treats with no luck. They nibble a little bit but just are not interested. The only treat I have found they absolutely go crazy about is bloodworms. They have spent most of their lives eating a variety of bottom feeder specific foods. I read an article on natural habitat and behavior of clown loaches recently and one section got me wondering. It stated that clowns are naturally carnivorous but are omnivores when they have to be. So I grabbed their food to look at the ingredients and sitting next to it is a bag of sinking carnivore pellets. I dropped a few in and the clowns went nuts. They absolutely love them. The problem is I have a couple of other fish(in other tanks) that eat these also and I just cant afford to use this as a daily diet and am looking for some alternatives. I will defiantly go through your suggestions and give them a try.
New Life Spectrum Thera+A ( main food)
TetraMin tropical crisps
Tetracolor tropical granules
TetraVeggie flakes
Whiteworms 2 x week
Brine shrimp 2 x week
TetraMin tropical crisps
Tetracolor tropical granules
TetraVeggie flakes
Whiteworms 2 x week
Brine shrimp 2 x week
10 Sidthimunkis, 6 yoyos, 7 clowns, 1 bicolor, 1 sterbai, 1 Angelfish, 15 zebra danios
! Remember that nothing can take the place of routine water changes to keep your water clean and your fish healthy !
! Remember that nothing can take the place of routine water changes to keep your water clean and your fish healthy !
Their favorite food is garden snails. But they only get these snails in the rainy season.
Their main diet is a mix of Almost Natural Tropical Fish Food products: Some are more algae and vegetable based, other foods are fish and shellfish based.
I also feed brine shrimp, bloodworms and many other frozen and freeze dried foods, plus the home made frozen food based on Martin's recipe.
Their main diet is a mix of Almost Natural Tropical Fish Food products: Some are more algae and vegetable based, other foods are fish and shellfish based.
I also feed brine shrimp, bloodworms and many other frozen and freeze dried foods, plus the home made frozen food based on Martin's recipe.
38 tanks, 2 ponds over 4000 liters of water to keep clean and fresh.
Happy fish keeping!
Happy fish keeping!
mine eat a diet like the above (flakes, algea and shrimp pellets, sinking pellets, zucchini...they get treat of blood worms once or twice a week). I wish I offered more (any) live foods.
Every once in a while I have caught a garden worm (they are very speedy, so this was hard to do....
They LOVED it.
I am thinking about figuring out how to grow my own worms. I have read about "worm composters", so why not just a "worm farm" under the sink. I am alittle nervous it might stink, but I guess only if overfed, right?
I do not know how to do it, but I'll bet there are some out there who are already raising their own worms for the fish.
How hard can it be?
Every once in a while I have caught a garden worm (they are very speedy, so this was hard to do....
They LOVED it.
I am thinking about figuring out how to grow my own worms. I have read about "worm composters", so why not just a "worm farm" under the sink. I am alittle nervous it might stink, but I guess only if overfed, right?
I do not know how to do it, but I'll bet there are some out there who are already raising their own worms for the fish.
How hard can it be?
glenna
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