When To Feed Gbta
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sebrofjr
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It normally receives most of its food from its internal bacteria through light .
To supplement though, I feed mine a piece of silverside once a week. I will give it some clam/squid for treats every now and again.
If you feed more often, it will just grow much faster. If you feed it a lot, it can encourage it into splitting (which some ppl do).
To supplement though, I feed mine a piece of silverside once a week. I will give it some clam/squid for treats every now and again.
If you feed more often, it will just grow much faster. If you feed it a lot, it can encourage it into splitting (which some ppl do).
WaffleWalffle22
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While the way of feeding Toddrtrex said will work (sometimes), I like to use this method... 
1. When you buy a BTA/RBTA and get it home, let it move around overnight and get settled. Then, the next morning I feed them so that they will stay in that spot that they are in.
2. I feed my anemones a bunch of mysis shrimp twice a week and I feed them the left-over mysis from daily feedings for my fish. Mine also seem to like the diet of live Jawfish!
That is the way I maintain my anemones and none of them have moved from the spot I've put them in originally except for an occasional anemone that want to move a few inches into another hole in the live rock. Hope this helps!
1. When you buy a BTA/RBTA and get it home, let it move around overnight and get settled. Then, the next morning I feed them so that they will stay in that spot that they are in.
2. I feed my anemones a bunch of mysis shrimp twice a week and I feed them the left-over mysis from daily feedings for my fish. Mine also seem to like the diet of live Jawfish!
That is the way I maintain my anemones and none of them have moved from the spot I've put them in originally except for an occasional anemone that want to move a few inches into another hole in the live rock. Hope this helps!
Sistom
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I also like to feed my new anemone's as soon as they find a suitable spot and open up. I just added a GBTA about 2 weeks ago and this week his tips were starting to look a little white so I started feeding him daily and he loves it. I bet he would eat several times a day if I would feed him. I started him off with frozen mysis or brine shrimp mixed with some cyclop-eeze (dry) and have switched him to half a silverside with cyclop-eeze this week. His white tips have already went back to normal and I'm still trying to figure out his feeding requirements. My RBTA is completely happy with a single feeding a week.
The first week with this GBTA was definitely different than my RBTA. For some reason he would shrivel up back into his cave and actually puke his insides out (as bad as that sounds). He would sit like this for 4+ hours and I swore he was dieing but after some time he would open up again and look perfectly happy. It doesn't happen as often now but It did scare me at the time. BTW all of my parameters are spot on and I think it was just his way of adjusting to the water and expelling waste.
Good luck with your GBTA!
The first week with this GBTA was definitely different than my RBTA. For some reason he would shrivel up back into his cave and actually puke his insides out (as bad as that sounds). He would sit like this for 4+ hours and I swore he was dieing but after some time he would open up again and look perfectly happy. It doesn't happen as often now but It did scare me at the time. BTW all of my parameters are spot on and I think it was just his way of adjusting to the water and expelling waste.
Good luck with your GBTA!
Sistom
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When I received my GBTA he did settle lower in the tank than my RBTA. This lower placement in the tank and his constant "hiding" for the first week probably did play a role in his fading tips. I suspect that my increased feeding brought him out into the light more so it was probably a combination of the feeding and longer light exposure that quickly cured his white tips.
The lighting in my DT is a 36" Nova Extreme T-5 Fixtures with 2 actinics and 2 daylight lamps. I'll admit, the bulbs are about at the end of their lifecycle and I have a new set arriving this Friday. (2 ATI Aquablue Special and 2 ATI Blue Plus if anyone's interested). I'll be changing the bulbs one at a time over the course of a week or so to let my reef adjust to the new lighting.
The lighting in my DT is a 36" Nova Extreme T-5 Fixtures with 2 actinics and 2 daylight lamps. I'll admit, the bulbs are about at the end of their lifecycle and I have a new set arriving this Friday. (2 ATI Aquablue Special and 2 ATI Blue Plus if anyone's interested). I'll be changing the bulbs one at a time over the course of a week or so to let my reef adjust to the new lighting.
