FOOD for anemone

[Kodiak5500]

I just got a BTA, it looks healthy and my Maroon hosted it within 5 minutes! My domino damsel also "hosts" it. It is strange he hangs out with my clown and "protects" him from my yellow tails. He is sleeping in it now.

anyways, what, and where can I get food for my BTA. Shrimp, krill, or whatever they eat. Im not sure where I can purchase this from and I want to get the right kind.

Thanks

 

[ocellaris123]

Go to your fish store and get krill or mysis to feed them. You can soak the food in selcon for added nutritional value.

 

[Kodiak5500]

how big is krill? I know mysis is a small frozen cube. Do I just put the cube in water then suck up the little shrimp with a eye drop thing and squirt it around the BTA?

 

[Thinslis]

How big is your BTA?

 

[Kodiak5500]

huge. ill try to get a pic

 

[Kodiak5500]

Here are some pictures. Whats the largest thing I can feed it? and where can I get it

 

[Kodiak5500]

I cant figure out how to get pictures to load and its ****ing me off

 

[Kodiak5500]

http://img44.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=tank001h.jpg

 

[ocellaris123]

You dont want to feed it anything too large. Krill is roughly an 1-2 inches long. You want to feed your anemone shredded foods no larger than say 1/2 inches otherwise the food will not be digested properly.

 

[asia102485]

Well I feed my 6inch RBTA a whole silverside every 4 days and the next day or two I just see the skin coming out of the mouth.

I know a lot of people dont like to feed silversides but I have had good luck with them and all my anemones are healthy. HTH

 

[Ebisan]

I feed my 12 btas half a silverside. Used to feed them whole ones but they got too big so I have been cutting back on the feedings. Always fed them silversides with no problems. What's wrong with silversides?

 

[REEFERINDC]

I agree with the 2 prior comments above

I agree with the 2 prior comments above

You can also try shrimp and clams from your grocery store.Some people don't feed them at all.Some let there clowns feed them.You decide.

 

[NirvanaFan]

the problem with whole silversides and large krill is that they don't digest them as well or easily as small things with more surface area. Think about you chewing your food into small pieces.

I feed my BTA a finely chopped (no bigger than 1/4") pieces of raw table shrimp, scallops, clam, nori, squid, tuna, and any other seafood I can find. This also gets fed to lots of my other LPS corals (frogspawn, sun coral, hammer, etc).

 

[kb11235]

I agree with reeferindc and nirvanafan, i have always had great experience with feeding my gbta small 1/4 to 1/2" chunks of shrimp from the seafood counter.

 

[cpaseth]

If you're feeding with mysis, how often? Mine is pretty new, only about 2"