Magnifica and table shrimp- shell on or off

[Flighty]

Which way do you guys do it when you feed table shrimp to a magnifica, shell on or off? Why? any problems either way?

Cooked/ uncooked too. I know people say uncooked like in the wild, but since we have seen concrete evidence of spoiled food causing problems, why not cook it to be safer?

Just curious what everyone else is doing.

 

[keefsama2003]

shell off dont want it accidentally puncturing the anemone even tho they are soft there is stilla possibility

 

[catastrofe]

No help here. . .my mag would only eat Silversides. And only Sally's Silversides at that!

 

[Flighty]

I leave the shell on the "feet" of the shrimp where is soft and take off anything hard like the part over the back and the tail. I'm thinking there may be good nutrition in it (iodine?) but I really don't know.

 

[keefsama2003]

YOU could inject small amt of iodine and selcon/zoecon into the shrimp with a syringe also so that it doesnt dilute into the water and goes directly to the anemone.

 

[sonofgaladriel]

I take the shell off too, but most of my fellow local reefers don't. No harm done apparently either way. But, like you, I think the shell would make it harder to digest and I don't want my nems going through any unnecessary stress. It's hard enough to keep them happy with water quality/lighting/flow/etc. issues, let alone indigestion!

 

[keefsama2003]

YEAH thats why i inject food for my bta its not a magnifica but still anything that gives it nutrients and helps keep things a little simpler keeps them happy

 

[bwest]

For my BTA i've been feeding it preshelled uncooked from wegmans. It seems to be taking it very well.

Also, thats a great idea about injecting it, I never thought of that.

 

[keefsama2003]

did it with my green haddoni i had in my first tank and the haddoni was a mere 26" in diam that i could measure before i got rid of it so i figure if it worked once watch out.

 

[delphinus]

I hardly feed shrimp or prawn anymore to my anemones (feed mysis instead) but when I did, I'd give them a few cut up pieces, shell and all.

 

[Jadran]

I feed em frozen seafood mix available from local fish market.. mossels and shrimps are cooked, next to them there are squid & octopus pieces in the mix.. they love it and dont seem to be choosy

like to play with them while I feed em. I let them touch and stick to food item with their tentacles, then I pull piece left/right like it would be prey which is trying to get away... Its interesting to see how new anemone's tentacles get more sticky over time..

of course, they catch some missids when I feed the tank....

 

[illcssd]

I usually dont peel the uncooked shrimp i feed.....I don't feed cooked shrimp because i feel that cooking it would take out alot of the nutrients in the shrimp that would be good for the anemone. I figure in the wild if they catch anything with a shell the clown doesn't de-shell it for them, so they probably don't need it unshelled. My magnifica has never had a problem with the shells.
fwiw
--austin

 

[Flighty]

Mario, does that mix smell chemically to you? I have something similar and it smells like chlorine to me. They do seem to love the octopus bits though.

 

[keefsama2003]

im going to start feeding my bta shelled shrimp then to see how it likes it.

the tentacles arent sticky yet but its eating like a champ so im hoping it will get that nice sticky feeling soon

its definately not bleached but hard to tell the color as its inbetween rose and green right now

 

[Jadran]

not really, not this one at least, its just freshly cut sea food.. on market there are also some cheaper ones with some suspicious fake red crab and lobster pieces inside which I wouldn't dare to feed but this mix looks ok..

Sea food cant be kept frozen for long time (they say) so I don't keep it longer than 30-40 days..

maybe option would be to buy some fresh squid, octopus, mossel, shrimps and make one yourself ? cheap risk free and nutritious..

 

[Flighty]

I make my own fish goo and use a whole octopus with the other ingredients through a meat grinder.

I do sometimes feed that to the magnificas, but I don't know if the nori and plant stuff is good for them. They do eat it though.

 

[OrionN]

Very old thread but:
I feed things as fresh as possible. I live by the Corpus Christi Bay so I sometime get oyster and just feed them oyster scoop from the shell. I feed my Magnifica with various sea food that I injected some Selcon in it. This did not seem to hurt the anemone. I am not sure if it help them.

 

[Jadran]

old thread indeed

Im still into the frozen foods..since then I gave up sea food mixes, not that i dont trust them, but shrimp tails kinda feel better. to imports and fragged haddoni i feed mysids.

 

[knot-hard]

I feed my haddoni pellets. No chance of spoiled food there.