Ricordea eating or angry?

[Sink_or_Swim]

Does it look like this ric is trying to eat this piece of mysis or does it just look angry because a shrimp landed on it at the same time my giant turbo snail just bulldozed past it? (I may have gotten my answer as I type this - it looks like it's totally closing up and sucking the shrimp into its mouth, and now it's opening back up! That's cool, haven't seen that before.) LOL

 

[CoralB]

That’s how mushroom coral eat by closing up in to its self . Totally normal !!! . Once it’s consumed it will open back up

 

[CoralB]

St Thomas mushrooms and og’ s are fun to feed as well

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

That’s how mushroom coral eat by closing up in to its self . Totally normal !!! . Once it’s consumed it will open back up

Good to know! Maybe I'll try feeding my others - I have a huge fuzzy mushroom that is splitting currently, and I bet it would eat some shrimp too. :)

 

[CoralB]

Make sure you keep the feeding small in size , their mouths are small . I cut and grind up shrimp with a little reef roids and make a paste . I have a long feeding tube and put a sparingly amount on all my shrooms once or twice a week .

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

Make sure you keep the feeding small in size , their mouths are small . I cut and grind up shrimp with a little reef roids and make a paste . I have a long feeding tube and put a sparingly amount on all my shrooms once or twice a week .

I'll try that - I have some Reef Roids. Will discosomas eat it? Seems like they'd have trouble hanging on to food. I just target feed the reef roids or oyster feast around them and they seem happy. Didn't realize how hangry my ricordeas were though!

 

[CoralB]

Most anything that has a mouth I believe benefits from feeding either in the water column or direct feeding . I make a thicker slurry that sticks to the mushrooms ( discoma’s as well )and other coral ( like my Goni’s and torches, giving it time to eat it or time to close up and pull it in . Now that being said finding some to be finicky as to what I feed them used to be a issue especially like if I had changed the formula lol!!! and there will always be some that never close when manual feeding . Watch out for opportunist creatures that can and will take the food out from off them .

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

Most anything that has a mouth I believe benefits from feeding either in the water column or direct feeding . I make a thicker slurry that sticks to the mushrooms ( discoma’s as well )and other coral ( like my Goni’s and torches, giving it time to eat it or time to close up and pull it in . Now that being said finding some to be finicky as to what I feed them used to be a issue especially like if I had changed the formula lol!!! and there will always be some that never close when manual feeding . Watch out for opportunist creatures that can and will take the food out from off them .

Guessing my cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp and emerald crabs will need to be watched - they'd probably try stealing food!