What do you feed your S. Gigantea?

Conrad25

Conrad25

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So I was curious what everyone feeds there S. Gigantea carpet and how you feed it etc.(Like cut it up to a billion pieces, one piece or how small sized?) Also how often do you feed yours? I have heard so many variations and noone gives specifics on this stuff it seems.

I picked up a 14" S Gigantea and its been in the tank for a week now and has settled in very nicely. I have fed it a piece of raw shrimp twice. First time I cut it up and it didn't get everything. Second time I fed two halfs and it took it all in a matter of a few minutes.

Thanks in advance for looking and responding!:fun2:

Conrad
 
I feed mine what ever I have on hand at the time. They're not real picky. I feed every day sometimes and others every two or three days. Depends on how busy I am. Always small pieces though.
 
Good to know. I just was worried about over feeding it. I like to feed corals every other day if I can and a few select daily along with the fish. Also didn't realize that the smiley I picked did that lol. Thanks for the info

Conrad
 
I know of no negative symptom that has been linked with an anemone over eating. I believe it would be next to impossible to over feed an anemone.
 
Randy I would chop everything into small pieces. They dont have to work as hard to digest. When settled in the tenticals will become long about 1". I will give mysis ,cut up shrimp, anything but silversides. I havent had luck with them at all.
LOL
 
Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Always small pieces though.

How small?
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They can eat large food, but they will often discharge the food before it's fully digested. I usually feed pieces about the size of mysis. I like feeding crab legs because the meat is stringy. I can pull it out of the exoskeleton and cut it into groups of thin strings about 3/8" long. I can then feed clumps of this and it's like feeding them food that's been chewed up. I try not to feed any bones, exoskeletons, or scales. The anemone typically won't digest these parts and will simply discharge them later. I feed my anemones nothing but meat and they don't really poo. This tells me they are digesting most, if not all, of what I feed them. I did recently have a fish die off in one of my tanks. (stupid mistake:hmm3:) I figured, why let the meat go to waste? I fed the fish to my anemones. About 12 hours later both my "carpets", haddoni and gigantea, were discharging slimy clumps of scales, skull, and other bones. If they can digest a 2 to 3 inch fish in 12 hours, I think it would be really hard to over feed one. My anemones are rather large though. I guess it's the good groceries.:lol2:
 
My 16 inches Gigantea ate a 4 inches Purple tang and digested it in 1 day. The bone cone out the next day.
 
EC,
Be careful with dead fish in the tank as food for anemone. They maybe spoiled and kill your anemone. I used to keep CB butterfly in the tank and feed him clams. One time, at the end of the day I took the leftover clam and feed it to my anemone. One of this meal and my thriving Magnifica was dead in 1 week. After this happened, thinking about it, I think the bacterial laden clam meat must have infected and kill my anemone. When you loaded the inner of an anemone with lots of live bacterial, it cannot be good for it.
 
They weren't dead long enough to begin decomposing. Most of them were still alive. Once it was obvious they weren't going to make it, I figured it was a more humane to feed them to the anemone than to let them suffer in the tank for hours.
 
I think i'm going to continue to feed raw shrimp as it seems that it loves it and I take a half a large shrimp, make it three pieces and feed it. I did try some squid and it seems ato be a lot more dense to feed than shrimp and I decided to chop that up like crazy to make it digest easier. Me personally I wouldn't chance feeding a fish. But if it was still alive and on its way out the door, it may be alright. But also makes me curious as to why its downhill which would make me not want to do it that way..... But I hope I don't have any fish on the way out the door to have to make that decision any time soon

Thanks for everyones responses.
 
I used a syringe with needle and inject Selcon and baby liquid vitamin (for human babies) into the shrimp before I feed it to the anemone. I am not sure if it did anything. It is a much better way of feeding vitamin for the anemone.
 
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