Is there a guide for caring/feeding a RBTA?

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Just introduced one to my tank - wondered around all night and picked a perfect spot on a rock. Just not sure what to feed him or if he'll eat the myseis that I feed the fish. Never had an anemone and i'm trying to find a good guide for care?!
 
When I have feed my BTA I feed them tiny pieces of raw shrimp, fish or scallops, feeding them once every 2 weeks. Anemones have slow digestive tracks so you do not want to feed so often that the food in sitting in the gut growing bacteria.
BTA's typically under the appropriate lighting do not really need supplemental feedings. In the wild a BTA is not catching fish, zooxanthellae and some off the waste provided by a residing clowns provide enough nutrition.

I am not an advocate of feeding Silversides.

Check for expelled pieces of food after feeding.
 
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