nem feeding

[bill4t]

can I just run down to the local food market and buy any raw fish or shrimp to feed my gbta or is there only certain fish you can feed nems?

 

[Maaka]

I feed mine the frozen uncooked medium shrimp cut into small pieces that you can get at any grocery store. then i have heard you can also feed it silversides but i have heard good and bad things about these so i stick with the shrimp.

 

[bill4t]

cool so ill go to kroger and get some uncooked shrimp then lol thanks I bought talapia yesterday cut it in small peices and then nem ate it but spit it back out 10min later not sure why

 

[Daddeo]

Make sure the pieces you feed it are cut up small enough for it to digest properly. Otherwise the food will rot inside the anemone.

 

[sirbazz]

Make sure the pieces you feed it are cut up small enough for it to digest properly. Otherwise the food will rot inside the anemone.

Question to the knowledgeable if I may.....

Has this actually happened to anyone?

My, (short), experience with our BTA is that it will spit out partially digested food rather than let it rot internally.

 

[KCombs]

...Id say yes, although said rule never applies to your expensive fish thats suddenly disappeared even though you thought it was too large to be eaten by your GBTA

 

[Drew707]

Thaw out a silverside ..cut it in half and that should do it..I like thaw mine with musks syrup for extra flavors

 

[Drew707]

Mysis shrimp**

 

[LitiGATOR]

How do you feed an anemone mysis shrimp since they're so small?

 

[Drew707]

Turkey baster or something like it..just thaw it out and suck it up and gently blow it into its

 

[BonsaiNut]

Be cautious with raw seafood. There are a number of us who are pretty confident we have killed anemones with bad food. The stories are all pretty similar - healthy anemone, been in same tank for years, one day you feed it raw food, no other changes to tank, next day it is dead/dying. This particularly applies to shrimp and silversides.

For what it's worth, there is no reason why you HAVE to feed your anemone raw food. There are tons of prepared foods out there that will work fine. I don't feed raw food any more because of this reason.

 

[jvdub20]

One of my clowns stole a small silverside from my snowflake eels mouth last night and feed it to my anemone. I was laughing the entire time. That clown is fearless.

 

[steelhead77]

There is no need to feed it. As long as you have good light, and an established tank, it will get everything it needs from the water column. These are very rudimentary creatures that, in the wild, have no-one coming by and dropping mysis, silversides or anything else down their gullets. These creatures actually require very little care and even thrive in "dirty" water. Broadcast feed your tank once a week and that is all it needs. I have quite a few in my tank no and I NEVER target feed them and they are absolutely thriving.

The less interference from you, (hands in the tank, etc.) the more the livestock in your tank will thrive.

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I agree with steelhead77,mine would catch the mysis that would land in it's tentecles.