feeding
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blessedsol
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i feed mine half a large silverside about once a week.some times brine shrimp.
AQUA DAVE
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You really don't need to feed much, once a month should be sufficiant. As long as you have good lighting and good water quality, your anemone will do fine without feeding every week. You can also feed salad shrimp from the maket cut into smaller chunks. Three chunks per shrimp, so that it makes it easy for the nem to handle. Once a month would be fine though. Any other feeding would be overkill unless you want your anemone to split or grow very large. Also over feeding can foul up you water and cause bigger problems in the long run.
km133688
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tedr is right, Clowns do not feed the anemone. If anything they will steal the food from it. As a correlary, you must feed your anemone if you want it to do well. Light alone is not sufficient.
To Aqua Dave's post, there is much debate over how much to feed an anemone. As he points out, there is a correlation between how often you feed and how big they grow and how often they split.
Most people feed once or twice a week.
I used to feed every day but small amounts.
Dave feeds once a month.
But as Dave says, more food means more nutreints in the water. Also, cutting shrimp up is a good idea, I use chicken sheers to cut my shrimp.
However, I am unclear what Dave means by salad shrimp. Most people agree, you should feed raw thawed meats to your shrimp. Any fresh seafood works good.
"yes sir, how many jumbo shrimp will that be?"
One please
"one pound yes sir"
No sir, not one pound, just one
"???"
good luck, Kevin
To Aqua Dave's post, there is much debate over how much to feed an anemone. As he points out, there is a correlation between how often you feed and how big they grow and how often they split.
Most people feed once or twice a week.
I used to feed every day but small amounts.
Dave feeds once a month.
But as Dave says, more food means more nutreints in the water. Also, cutting shrimp up is a good idea, I use chicken sheers to cut my shrimp.
However, I am unclear what Dave means by salad shrimp. Most people agree, you should feed raw thawed meats to your shrimp. Any fresh seafood works good.
"yes sir, how many jumbo shrimp will that be?"
One please
"one pound yes sir"
No sir, not one pound, just one
"???"
good luck, Kevin
I have an amnome in my reef that I havnt fed in 6+months and it keeps growing. Anytime i tried to feed it, the Cinnamon would steal the food, so I gave up. It still get a morsel here or there, but only when its lucky. In another tank, I have a BTA hosted by a different Cinnamon that brings it any food bigger than he can eat. I drop a large flake (2") into the tank and the fish nibbles off a few pieces, and takes the rest to the nem... Tip: Nothing ever makes sense in a reef tank... 
