Feeding sebae anemone
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Eric Boerner
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7977064#post7977064 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dantodd
still bigger than krill. Also, lots of people refer to different sizes of shrimp as "cocktail" shrimp....
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Totally depends on your luck I guess. Almost all of the silversides from San Fran Bay that was getting were smaller than the size of guppies. Hardly a meal for an anemone unless you fed it 8 or 9.
Still though, I preffer Krill over silversides. I have yet to see any anemone refuse krill. Scallops, Clam and live feed goldfish are a good variety.
Amphiprion
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By far, the best silversides (besides fresh ones 
) are the ProSalt brand (with Fish King a close second). What impressed me with pro salt is that they were larger and their slime coating was still intact, unlike most other brands IME. I have never seen as quick a response with any other brand, so if you can get them, all the better. You are more than welcome to feed other types of foods, etc., but IME, a good whole fish meat like silversides is all that is necessary for optimum health.
) are the ProSalt brand (with Fish King a close second). What impressed me with pro salt is that they were larger and their slime coating was still intact, unlike most other brands IME. I have never seen as quick a response with any other brand, so if you can get them, all the better. You are more than welcome to feed other types of foods, etc., but IME, a good whole fish meat like silversides is all that is necessary for optimum health.
55semireef
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agreed<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7982461#post7982461 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Amphiprion
By far, the best silversides (besides fresh ones
about 2 years ago I bought a 2 inch sebae that was bleached (yellow) and I had it on the bottom of my 29gal. I have a 1.5 - 2inch sand bed. It's foot was secured to the bottom glass. I fed it about a .5 inch piece of silverside (prosalt) every other day. it grew to about 8 inches in a little over 18 months and I increased the size of the silverside accordingly. Under 130W of pc it browned up nicely in about 6 months. It only moved once from one end of the tank to the other to where it found a suitable current. It housed a pair of perculas also. I ended up giving it to a friend with a 220 gal w/ MH lighting. Last time I saw it it was huge. anyway the moral of my rant is that I credit alot of my success with the heavier feeding of the quality Prosalt silversides. Prior to that I fed mysid and brine but it didn't respond as well. It was when I switched to the silversides that the growth took off and the zooanthelae started growing.
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Eric Boerner
Coral Cutter
Same, I have great success with shrimp, clam, and scallops. They really should have a varied diet, not just silversides.
Amphiprion
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Really? Silversides were just about the only thing (short of fresh shrimp and other seafood) available for fish food around here ten years ago. I couldn't trust the local seafood due to mercury (used it at first, though), so silversides were my only alternative. They are the only food I have found that are sufficient to encourage frequent spawning behavior in H. crispa.
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