eliterecon14
Pajama Cardinal
What sort of things woul an Anemone accept as food?
Anemone foodstuffs
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I'm giving the small thin pieces of the raw unsalted grocery seafood and its mixes. Shrimp and fish, mostly. Sometimes frozen food from LFS: pieces of krill or Ocean Plankton, sometimes Marine Cuisine.
It is for condy and tube anemones.
It is for condy and tube anemones.
mmkeeper
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Gobies, Copperbanded Butterflies, ect
mattleycrue76
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Light, lots of it. And ocasionally as a treat silversides.
burning2nd
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i feed mine one single (half cut most of the time) silver side....
ive seen nemo go back 2 his home, and spit out some of his food... kinda like hes feeding his nem,
ive seen nemo go back 2 his home, and spit out some of his food... kinda like hes feeding his nem,
Silversides, shrimp and other natural sea foods. As mentioned above...LOTS of good quality light!!
burning2nd
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i dont feed my nem... but maybe once a month...
its more a snack.
its more a snack.
KrautBurner
too "edgy" for this place
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eliterecon14
Pajama Cardinal
Bubble tip anemone
Maxx
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Bubble tips arent really fish eaters. I would not reccomend feeding it, (Or any other anemone for that matter), silversides. I've heard waaaaay too many horror storys of bad silversides causing anemone losses.
Click the link in my signature for the RF resource library. Go to the invertebrate section and look up anemones. You'll find lots of helpful info there.
Nick
Click the link in my signature for the RF resource library. Go to the invertebrate section and look up anemones. You'll find lots of helpful info there.
Nick
Tieg
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Not to start any arguments or anything...just giving my opinion
We got this RBTA about 5 months ago and he was about the size of a silver dollar maybe smaller. The LFS actually gave me a discount because he didn't think he was going to make it (was actually probably just getting rid of it because he had it forever):I would feed it a silverside or 2 ever 3 days and now that sucker is big enough to host 2 picassos and actually recently moved from one hole in the rock to another because it was probably to big for the first one. Right now its about the size of a saucer.
I have a GBTA in my 80 gal tank which would not come out much at all and was fairly small. I have started to target feed him the same as the above RBTA and he has actually doubled in size. I'm thinking of maybe trying to introduce a Anenome crab similar to this: http://www.marinecenter.com/inverts/crabs/anemonecrab/
(if anyone has any info on where to get one appreciate a pm)
I also have a buddy and I do this as well...take a baster and suck up a thawed out square of brine shrimp, squid, mysis shrimp etc and just squirt it on the anenome. Variety is what really matters I guess. This probably has not worked for others but for me...it works great. Good luck.
I feed mine finely chopped up Prime Reef Formula 1 once a week (less than 1/2 tsp) and feed the tank and BTA frozen Cyclops from a turkey baster a couple times a week. It was maybe the size of a 50 cent piece 3-4 months ago and now its 2.5 X that size now. I think the clown that hosts in it brings it little treats now then as well. I haven't asked him what he's feeding it though
burning2nd
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i asked my nemo what he feeds his home.. and he said
"what ever i have to throw back up"
(there was some bad words in there 3)
(but ill leave it at that... nemo;s mean)
"what ever i have to throw back up"
(there was some bad words in there 3)
(but ill leave it at that... nemo;s mean)
