rescue nem

[Arkayology]

My LFS had a silver dollar sized BTA on a piece of LR that I bought for 12 bucks today. It was almost totally bleached white but was fully inflated and looked healthy otherwise. I acclimated it for an hour and placed in into the tank with the LR. It is on the move atm. I am not sure where it is going, but I am sorta wondering about it adjusting to the light.

It came from a tank where it was not exposed to light much and was in a tank with a MH about a foot and a half above the surface of the water. I have a Tek 4x24 T5HO fixture. It will be plenty of light for the nem, but will it take awhile for the nem to adjust to the light? Tank is a 20H with plenty of space for the nem to move around and be happy.

Also, if I cut silversides into very very small pieces, will this be ok to feed it or should I stick to mysis for awhile until it gets bigger?

 

[rcypert]

Feed it whatever it will take. I would try both silversides and mysis.

 

[clowns101]

I think you should have enough light.But please dont feed silversides.There have been reports of it killing peoples anemones!

 

[Arkayology]

I find that many reports of these types of things, you never get all the info. The silversides that *may* have killed some nems may have been bad because they were left out and spoiled, the piece was too big or there may have been a water problem in the tank and the nems just happened to die while feeding because of some kind of stress. Who knows? I have read this about silversides, but there are an equal amount of people who feed their nems these with no problems. I will feed it silversides until I find a problem with it.

 

[syrinx]

You folks do as you will with silversides, but being in the wholesale/retail end of it for years- I don`t use them. Frozen fish food often is semi thawed in shipping. Silversides being gut loaded, are the quickest thing to spoil. Fresh fish does not smell "fishy"-but packaged silversides often do.