feeding clown knives

[vtnamezeboi]

i want to buy this clown knife. he is about 10 inches. the owner at the lfs says it only eats live. but IMO i think the damn owner is an idiot overall. can i get the clown knife off of live? the co-owner said he can starve himself to death if he doesn't eat what he wants to eat. will he eat frozen prawns?

 

[rallysman]

I got a clown knife @ 16" and was on live only. I starved him for 2 days and he ate shrimp right away. Now it will eat anything that I offer. They are easy to convert off of live IME

 

[ZOO YORK 207]

i give mine @12" canadian earthworms and dry foods like sinking carnivore pellets, krill, etc.

 

[Steve_89]

I got a clown knife @ 16" and was on live only. I starved him for 2 days and he ate shrimp right away. Now it will eat anything that I offer. They are easy to convert off of live IME

Mine is around 12" and the same thing applied...starved for 2-3 days and it now takes everything.

So IME as well..they were easy to get off live.

 

[vtnamezeboi]

do they usually eat things that float or sink

 

[ethnics]

mine is about 8 inches and i have him on floating hikari pellets. he gobbles them up fast as hell. i was so excited the first day i saw him eat haha

 

[vtnamezeboi]

they dont look too active

 

[ethnics]

there nocternal, they go nuts at night or when u turn the lights off. mine go buckwild when the lights are off n i feed him. cK's are cool

 

[flamenco-t]

I used to feed my fish with live feeders then I lost a jardini to bad goldfish feeder and develop fin rot.

I starve the whole tank for 4 days, raise the temp up to 84 deg (raises their metabolism) and start chunking market shrimp and pellet. You'll be surprise how quick 10 pieces dissapear in matter of second.

stan

 

[piscavore pisces]

took me over a week of starving my royal to get him off live fish. now he takes silversides, smelt and shrimp. nightcrawlers too as treats once in a while.

they dont look too active

i had the same problem. my knife was always hiding except when lights were out. what i did was get a bunch of plastic plants to float on top and they cover almost all of the surface. that combined with only feeding when i turn on the lights has made my royal a lot more active. he actually gets real lively the moment i turn on the lights because he knows its feeding time. it might take a while but it worked for me.