New clowns won't eat

[shinok4]

My girlfriend and I just bought two perc clowns, one male and one female. I have had them for two days and they haven't eaten (at least from what I can tell, I watch them when they eat from across the room). I have a 20 gal with 3 small damsels, each about an inch, and the two clowns. I am currently feeding them saltwater fish flakes. Is this something I should be worried about or am I just obsessing too much on this? Also if you have any ideas on how to get them to eat please let me know.
Thanks,
James

 

[rs1831]

The damsels may be stressing them. Try some frozen food with garlic extreme. My two clowns won't touch flakes but any frozen food they go right after. Plus they really seem to like the garlic extreme.
Good luck.

 

[deelucky]

yeah garlic extreme will help i soak my flakes in it or frozen food sometimes both.

 

[lion_crazz]

Hey James, how did you acclimate these guys and for how long?
Can you give us your water parameters? (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, temp, pH, kH, and salinity)

 

[shinok4]

What kind of frozen food? And is there anything i can do about the damsels stressing them out? Well lion_crazz I havent had the money to get the complete saltwater test kit yet but i took a sample to my lfs and all the parameters were perfect. Salinity is at 1.023, that's a little higher then i want it though, so im gonna lower it to around 1.022 tonight.

 

[lion_crazz]

A specific gravity of 1.023 is fine. I keep mine at 1.026 and my fish/corals/inverts are thriving.
How long did you acclimate the fish? How did you do it?
Unfortunately, that is what damsels do, so if they are picking on them, you will need to remove the damsels.

 

[shinok4]

I followed the step by step acclimation process that this site says. well ive never seen the damsels pick on hte clowns. Most of the time hte damsels are on one side of hte tank and hte clowns are on the other.