What can I use to prevent my fish from stealing food from my Ricordias?

[lessans]

What can I use to cover my ricordias to prevent my fish from stealing food from my Ricordias?

 

[pdwife]

feed the fish first. Then use a feeder pole of some sort to keep the fish away, just jab at them, they will flee.

 

[chrisstie]

skewer time

 

[kiknchikn]

LOL... my fish leaves my ricordeas' food alone.. but my blue leg hermit crabs are relentless little jerks! I use my 10 inch forceps to pick them up and toss them across the tank. It's actually pretty fun... like a really slow version of that arcade game in Chuck E. Cheese where the alligators come out of a cave and you bash them in the head with a mallet. Good times.

 

[BigScott]

THATS FUNNY...i target feed mine with a turkey baster..

 

[lildraken]

yeah I had the same problem with my fireshrimp. he would pull food out of me rics' mouths as they were swallowing. Now I just give him his own big piece of food first. then I just have to stand guard with 12 inch tweezers while the rics eat sloooooooowly!

 

[deansreef]

how do the rics eat in the ocean???

 

[kiknchikn]

As far as I know (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) in natural settings rics don't generally have large meaty food fall on their "lap" like that, and if that did happen it would likely be stolen just like in our tanks. Instead, rics eat small bits of organic waste and plankton that land on them or that they catch with mucus nets. Rics mostly survive through their symbiotic arrangement with the photosynthetic zooanthellae in their tentacles and oral disc.

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[doesheya]

Re: What can I use to prevent my fish from stealing food from my Ricordias?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8810057#post8810057 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lessans
prevent my fish from stealing food from my Ricordias?

What is it you're feeding them, and how often? thnx......dosh!