how does BTA eats?

[vt_snowman87]

i'm wondering how does my BTA eats, it doesn't grab the mysis shrimp i give him.. so i just drop it on him and wait for him to eat it..

how do they eat?? anyone has pics or videos?

from what i observed after it has food, it deflates back all its tentacles, den puffs up its body.. almost thought it was going to die, with the deflated tentacles..

one more thing, i noticed my skunk cleaner shrimp likes to climb up onto the BTA to pick off food i gave it..

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

It takes the food to its mouth. ..here just go to www.karensroseanemones.com She has pictures and will answer all your questions you have about your anemone.

 

[dc]

If you feed them larger pieces of food (I use prime reef) they will grab and move it to their mouths.

 

[Subliminal]

Sometimes you come home for lunch and find your Thompson's Tang was served for their lunch!

That being said, usually I clip off a piece of seafood, like I've been eating a lot of salmon lately, and i put a little raw piece down by it's tentacles and it grabs it and eats it.

 

[Purple Penguins]

at least your trying to figure out how he eats, does he look better than he did the other day? I still say you having an anemone in a 2 week old (now?) tank is not a good idea

 

[vt_snowman87]

oh ya, a quick update on my wrinkling anemone, it's okay now.. full bloom like a flower, pretty.. think i'm really lucky already..

only problem is with the skunk shrimp picking off food from it..