What does a rose anemone eats?

NaztyStang3121

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Hello,

i want to know what does a rose anemone eats. I have had it for 2 weeks. i try to feed it frozen krill but nothing. i want to know how to feed it and what to feed it. thank you for your help...
 
the meaty chunks in rods food,

got pictures of the anemone, lots of the unhealthy anemones sold at LFS refuse to eat.

frozen krill, are you defrosting the chunks? my nems love krill.
 
I feed mine silversides. You can get a package of them frozen at the LFS for pretty cheap. Depending on the size of the anemone, you may have to cut the silverside in half. Make sure you thaw it out
 
I'm not sure every BTA will eat foods that it is offered if it is deriving adequate nutrition from your lighting. I have a whole series of clones that will not eat anything that I offer them and I've never been able to figure out why. They grow pretty large and reproduce so they're doing ok without being fed by me. I have others that will eat every time I offer them something.
-B
 
My RBTA eats mysis.
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They are even getting a bit unruly and its hard to get the food around them to feed the fish. :eek:
 
well, i got compact lights, but i got a rbta and a sabae anemone, and both are the bottom and under a rock so they dont get light. now how do i move them around with out hearding them... the white sabea anemone eat some krill yesterday. but the RBTA not is sticking, also is making wier stuff. like last night it got very small tiny. i hope it does die because when it opens it was bing and beutyful. but i need to move then from under the rock.
 
Is your tank only 3 months old? New tank syndrome and or allopathy. A sebae requies intense lighting. It is not advisable to keep different species of anemones in the same system, I know some do but experts advise against it. Did you research these animals before you added them to your tank?

I coppied this off wetwebmedia.
Compatibility:

THE big question with most large anemone stocking is whether they can be maintained with other Stinging-celled life, particularly hard and soft corals... among other Classes and Orders... as well as other Anemone species. The simple answer is yes, this can be done... with certain provisos.

Delbeek (2002) related the keeping of Entacmaea with other species in a large semi-open system of some 350 gallons at the Waikiki Aquarium. ("...including a Merten’s sea anemone Stichodactyla mertensii, several Heteractis crispa, and a large number of E. quadricolor (these had multiplied via fission several times over the years producing over twenty offspring)."). Note the size/volume of this system... Keeping anemones in small systems with other Cnidarians, including other anemone species is NOT advised... there being too much chemical and physical and biochemical-physical negative interaction to warrant the health of all livestock. Starting with initially smaller specimens, taking care to place the "less aggressive" species ahead of more so, distancing all appropriately, and being very diligent re your maintenance (water changes, activated carbon...) allows for more likelihood of all getting along... with the anemone placed last. Even then, the onus is upon you to keenly observe your livestock. Should other stinging-celled life proliferate, grow too close to your BTA/s, they may become very unhappy, try to move, shrink to tiny proportions, or outright die.

More than one cloned BTA can survive quite well in the same system, and this can be not only a pleasurable way of populating your system, but a useful trade-in item to offset your hobby addiction's costs.

Sebae Anemone
The Sebae Anemone, Heteractis crispa, is one of the more difficult anemones to acclimate to the home aquarium, but it can do fine in surroundings where the correct environment is provided. Sebae Anemones require a strong lighting setup and will likely wither and fail with anything less.
 
Hello,

well i got two anemone now. one is sabea and a red bubble tip. i had the tank runing for almust 3 months. the sabea is doing well i quest i feed it yesterday and it eat it all. but the RBTA is not doing good. to tell you the true is that i didnt understand the article you wrote. when i out them in the tank both anemone when down to the tank and theya re under the rocks so they are not getting light. now how do i move them to the top of tank. i also want to put more color in my tank. what should i get the is reef safe, thank you for your time.
 
Pretty fish you have there. What are your water parameters (temp., ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, specific gravity, ph, etc.)? Also, what type of lighting do you have? My RBTAs like the usual foods, silversides, squid, scallop, shrimp, krill. I've had mine under PC, T5 and MH and they eat regardless.
 
I agree, Karensroseanemones has great information. I have one parent BTA and 3 clones from it that I have not ever been able to feed. These anemones will take and hold whatever I offer them, but then they release it 100% of the time. I think it's kind of interesting that none of these clones will feed. They sit under 400W MHs and appear to be getting enough nourishment as they grow to over 6" in diameter. I have other BTAs that will feed on whatever I offer them.
-B
 
well i think is a clone anemone, because when i got it i heard the guy saying the he had split it. and my sabae does it. now how do i move them around whats the process
 
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