Seabae Anenome feeding?

[bigdoug]

I have been researching these and havent been able to find much on feeding, is frozen shrimp a good food for them? Or krill? And how often to feed? I am interrested in one for the future and want to be prepared. Any tips for the care will be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[garygb]

I'm new to this species, but have found that mine likes shrimp, squid, silversides, krill, and PE mysis. Mine is a rescue and is as white as snow. I'm target feeding it a small amount daily. If yours isn't bleached, less frequent feedings would be appropriate. From what I've read, some crispa owners don't target feed their anemones at all, just letting them catch whatever they snag when the fish are fed. Others feed weekly or so.

Hopefully others with more H. crispa experience will chime in.

 

[bradleym]

I have SOME experience but also no expert, I have 2 and I feed both twice week. Thawed silversides or mysis for me. My biggest one picked a spot where all my flow turns down the tank wall so he also gets all the leftovers everyday when I feed tropical flakes to my fish, and he loves that too. Both were rescues, and I fed every other day then. But they are doing well enough that I feed them with all the other nems twice a week now.

 

[bigdoug]

I'm new to this species, but have found that mine likes shrimp, squid, silversides, krill, and PE mysis. Mine is a rescue and is as white as snow. I'm target feeding it a small amount daily. If yours isn't bleached, less frequent feedings would be appropriate. From what I've read, some crispa owners don't target feed their anemones at all, just letting them catch whatever they snag when the fish are fed. Others feed weekly or so.

Hopefully others with more H. crispa experience will chime in.

thanks, what kind of shrimp?

 

[garygb]

Fresh shrimp from the seafood dept. (for human consumption).

 

[bigdoug]

thanks garygb i was wandering about that, would be a lot more cost effective than fish food. now is it true cocktail shimp is bad due to the preservatives?

 

[rhdoug]

I just give mine whatever the tank is getting, usually a mix of frozen mysis, cyclopeeze, krill, and various other frozen foods. Just an occasional squirt from the turkey baster. I usually just let it get whatever it can during normal tank feeding, but I do feed multiple times during the day. In the past I have fed it whole krill and silversides, but I don't give it large pieces of food anymore. I personally wouldnt give it a whole shrimp at once, but chopped pieces. I have had it for a bit over 8 years. IME they are not picky eaters.

 

[bigdoug]

rhdoug good to hear, i am going to try one and see how it goes, i currently have 2 rock nems(hitchhickers) that i target feed once a week via the turkey baster, they really go to town on mysis, the rest of the time they fend for themselves. since i do not feed much, only 4 fish in a 125gallon would you suggest target feeding more often? say a couple times a week? the seabae i have on hold has been at the lfs for 2weeks and eats well there, it is roughly 8in around.

 

[rhdoug]

A couple of time a week sounds good. Is it white or tan colored? If it is white (bleached) it may need to be fed a bit more often until it regains its color.

 

[bigdoug]

it has a light tan tint to it. looks pretty healthy compared to some pics i have seen of healthy vs unhealthy ones.

 

[rhdoug]

sounds like a good one. Good luck with it.

 

[bigdoug]

Photo Update

Photo Update

Here are a couple pics of the sebae, the clowns have taken to it well, and i have target fed it twice this week. It is a Krill eating machine.

And one with my emerald crab posing on the left.

 

[garygb]

It's looking good.

 

[rhdoug]

It looks great, much better than mine did -- it was tiny and white when I got mine.

 

[bigdoug]

It looks great, much better than mine did -- it was tiny and white when I got mine.

I wached it at the LFS for a couple weeks before my purchase. It was the nicest looking one they have had in a while. People seem to snatch up the "bleeched" ones quick. It is taking a small piece of Krill every other day, and whatever the clowns share. It would not take the silver sides.

 

[jasonrp104]

When I got mine it was just a little whiter than the one you have. I let it get comfortable for about a week, then I spot fed it at least twice a week (no more than 3 times) with either chopped krill, chopped shrimp, or marine cuisine. Aftrer a few months, it had all color back and was starting to grow fairly large so I dropped the spot feeding down to once a week. Now I'm just letting it catch whatever it gets when I feed the clowns because it easily takes up a third of my 45 gallon tank

 

[rhdoug]

I took some pics of mine a couple of days ago and thought I'd share.

and here it is for size - the tank is 3 ft across.

It is still growing, but slowly. I have had to move several corals away from it over the years, including the yellow leather in the middle top. I am interested to see what happens when the large orange acan finally gets too close in the next few months. It will be difficult if not impossible to move that coral as it has encrusted the rock completely from 2 teeny polyps.

 

[bigdoug]

rhdoug, that looks great! :thumbsup:

 

[garygb]

That's a nice one rhdoug, is it attached to the rock or buried into the sand bed?

 

[rhdoug]

It's hard to say. Looking from the end of the tank you can see the trunk extending down deep through the rock work, but then a rock blocks the view. If the base is not buried in the sand it is close to it. It moved a little bit from higher on the rock to its current position about 4-5 yrs ago. Back then it was definitely anchored to the rock.