OC Clown Face Planting Acans

[outdrsyguy1]

So one of my OC clowns started literally jamming his entire head into my acans and violently shaking his head back and forth to pry open the acans for food. I try to guard them with my feeding tube but even after 10 minutes it'll dive in. I think it's starting to harm the acans.

Any suggestions? I'm thinking i'm going to have to re-home him. The other clowns are watching and starting to look like they might try the same thing.

It's tough to feed the lps because the clowns eat aggressively and learn food comes out the end of the tube and follow it like stink on a monkey. I can try feeding them at the same time on the other side of the tank but that buys me maybe 15 seconds max.

Sometimes I just want to reach in and punch that fish in the mouth!

 

[rk4435]

I have the same problem with a rusty angel. He is not diving in though, just hangs near the tube and snatches.

 

[jdavid]

this seemed silly to me when I first read it, then just now I look up at my tank and what do I see? My snowflake face planting duncans!

 

[kirkwood]

I use a strong to shoot food over my rbta's tentacles. My clowns watch but they won't go in. I did have a melanarus repeatedly bump my gold torch with his head to jar a mysis loose, but he wasn't overly aggressive.

I understand tour frustration, but maybe you could spot feed something different than what u feed the fish or spot feed after lights out. I spot feed ELOS SVC powder soaked in Fuel. There isn't much there for the fish to go after.

 

[jdavid]

I don't think my duncan had any food though, I hadn't just fed. I think he just wanted to faceplant duncans.

 

[chefsung]

you can put a bowl on top of your lps so nothing get to it like a clear plastic sandwich meat tun things and they wont get to it.. that's wat I used to do.

 

[outdrsyguy1]

Thanks for the suggestions. My problem is the acans always seemed to prefer meaty foods like mysis. I'll try some cyclopeeze again and see how it goes. These acans are mounted vertically on a cliff so no way to cover them. The night feeding is a good idea, i'll have to try that and see how it goes. My melanarus wrasse is learning it too, he started nabbing things out of my grape lps coral. Atleast he doesn't face plant.... yet....