Anemone questions :)

[10galclowns]

Hey guys I have a green bta that iv been working on to get its color back. What do you guys feed your anemones or recommend feeding them? Has anyone uses like frozen shrimp from the grocery store?

 

[seamonkey84]

Human grade food from the store is the choice that DIY food blenders go with. Just make sure it's washed real well before you feed/freez it. If you buy frozen, check for preservatives. Get a variety of seafoods too, like whitefish, shrimp, clam, squid (frozen cariety packs work well). Chop up into pieces (or get a cheap food processor just for this purpose) lay the bits/mash flat in a ziplock and freez. A heck of a lot cheaper pound per pound to buying unregulated fish food.

 

[Trex]

The smaller the pieces of food the better. If the anemone is spitting anything out in a day or two, the piece was too big.
I, personally, haven't fed any of my anemones in about 9 months now, but when I did I used either PE mysis or frozen (( thawed )) krill.

Did it lose its color in your tank, or did you purchase it that way?

 

[10galclowns]

I bought it that way.. My baby rbta is doing awesome and I never feed it. I'm trying to get the color to come back and iv never done this before :) got the anemone cheap and I love the size of it :) so does my clowns well my Picasso loves it.

 

[10galclowns]

So would frozen shrimp that humans eat work? I know I have some and I could get a cup of my tank water and defrost it cut it up in small pieces and try feeding it.

 

[Connie]

Yes, that would work. I feed mine table shrimp, scallops, krill, mysis in small pieces. I have fed it pieces of silverside when I was out of the other stuff, but that should be your last resort IMO. Feed one or two times a week.

 

[10galclowns]

I just feed it a small piece of clam and it took it right in :)

 

[10galclowns]

Now that problem is fixed now I have to fix the Picasso beating up on my platinum problem.... The joys of saltwater tanks lol

 

[zemuss]

I feed mine weekly and it seems to be doing well. It was a very small nem about a quarter in size. So I am being patient because the Clowns would rather hug a bubble coral.

 

[Pkunk35]

I'd like to make a suggestion to use wild caught shrimp preferably from US or Canada (if you are local to these regions). There are multiple reasons to not purchase farmed shrimp one of them being chemicals being used during farming and I doubt this would be good for the nem.

For more links as to why, people can PM me.

 

[10galclowns]

I'm thinking about taking my platinum clown out and putting it in my dads tanks

 

[10galclowns]

My dads tank had ick about 3-4 months ago and we haven't had a fish in it since so I'm trying to drip water into the container where the platinum is to try my best for it not to get ick

 

[10galclowns]

So I came home tonight and found the coral banded shrimp in my dads tank trying to eat my baby platinum so I put the platinum back in my tank..... Thinking about starting up a 5 gallon tank to separate them..