Can you feed rics?

[kwiker]

Does anyone here feed thier ricordia mushroom and if so, what do you feed them and how? Just curious.

 

[fishfanv]

i feed mine cyclop-eeze & sometimes even mysis using a turkey baster.

 

[kwiker]

I tried to feed mine brine shrimp with a syringe today. The food stuck to the vesicles. Does the mouth eat it off of the vesicles?

 

[Dan Thrash]

i tried to feed mine cyclop-eeze today. the rics slimed up a bit and caught some of the food, but i dont think any actually made it to the mouth.

 

[All Delight]

I feed mine mysis now and then.

 

[DonavonsReef]

Take a chunk of shrimp or squid & place it on the front disc & watch your ricordia close up around it & suck ti up.

 

[EvilInSin]

We use cut up bit of fish or mysis shrimps. We just turn off the flow in the tank (other wise it just all blows away) and use a turkey baster to put a piece or two on the ric. It moves the food to its mouth and eats.

 

[Dunky019]

I attempted feeding mine mysis but they didn't take anything.. I did just get them 2 days ago though, so I'll keep trying...

I'll try evil's method and turn off the PH's and see if that helps

 

[lessans]

You can't just place it on top of the ric and expect it to eat, although that works sometimes. What I do with mysis is wiggle the shrimp on the tentacles in one particular area of the ricordia. This way you're mimicking the prey wiggling in its tentacles as if it is struggling and then it should start to close up. However, my purple discosomas sp. have pretty much stopped taking mysis. Only my ricordias take mysis.

 

[Dunky019]

K, so I turned off all the PH's in my tank and used a turkey baster type of thing to target feed the mushrooms. After about 5 minutes of the mysis sitting near the mouth, they eventually closed up and sucked the food in

I find some of them eat very very slowly though, and i have to kinda guard them while they eat b/c my cleaner shrimp will take the food from they're mouth.

How often do you feed yours? I think I'll feed a bit twice a week or so.

 

[Lpabsolute]

You can target feed them if you want, but you really don't have to. I feed my tank cyclopeez and brime shrimp. My large hairy mushrooms loves brime shrimp. He will completely close up to make sure he doesn't spill his food.

 

[malkier22]

i feed them shrimp slowly through a TB

 

[All Delight]

When I feed my fish sometimes flake food lands on my rics, they'll eat that too!

 

[psimitry]

w/ my Yumas, the largest mother doesn't eat ANYTHING anymore despite its past where it used to eat like a pig. Now the smaller ones eat food which I would think would be much to large for them, but they take it in anyway.

I would guess that the larger one just munches on plankton that it happens to suck in when it inflates in the morning.

 

[NorthernCF]

raw (not precooked) shrimp. slice it up small, feed away.