Picky,picky....

[macperry]

I need some new ideas for some foods that have worked for other people out there with finicky anems. I hane a Sebae crispa that will not eat anything I have offered it over the last 2 months. The rest of my fish are having all sorts of fun with the food the anem lets float right off its tentacles.....HELP!

 

[Random Aquarist]

Will anemones eat phytoplankton? I want to culture some for my corals and clowns when I setup my tank.

 

[catdoc]

Silversides (that's all mine will eat, but they're bta's)
Shrimp
Squid
Blender mush

 

[macperry]

I use Cyclop-Eeze, comes in a red frozen popsicle looking pacgage. I just squeeze the frozen stuff up out of the top of the package, and swirl it around in the tank for a couple of seconds. The percs and chromis go nuts, the Nassarius snails come up out of the sand bed, the skunk cleaner shrimp starts dancing.....but the question is....does the anem get any of it for itself?

 

[Random Aquarist]

Why don't you just squirt it directly into its mouth?

 

[Flighty]

When an anemone is not doing well it can lose the stickiness of its tentacles. I have had luck feeding the tank, waiting a minute until the anemone detects the food in the water, then holding the food directly to the mouth. Even if the tentacles are nonreactive the stomach tissue that comes out usually has some stickiness to it.

 

[GSMguy]

nems need meaty foods no brine shrimp or phyto they like silversides everyone has luck with silversides soaked in garlic,selcon, and cyclopeze. my nems dont turn that down