Why don't you feed silversides?
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Damsels R Cool
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i was expecting a pic of a nem eating someone because they were feeding it silversides
dalston
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Me being one of those people...I'm under the impression that as these silverside are not for human consumption, the care into keeping them fresh and frozen is somewhat lax resulting in foul and possibly diseased food.
Thomas McCallie
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So just wondering what sould I be feeding?
OrionN
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What ever seafood for human consumption., make sure no additive or preservative added to it.
tcwoodrn
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Not sure what type of nem you are taking care of, but I feed my GBTA 1/2 cube of mysis 3 times a week. My picassos bring it small amounts of food every day as well. I can usually tell which days to feed him by whether he expands umbrella style (hungry) vs when he just drapes like a willow tree (usually the day after I fed him).
The nem it split from was never fed and is still thriving to this day (it is a few years old).
The nem it split from was never fed and is still thriving to this day (it is a few years old).
OrionN
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If you use frozen fish food for the tank, if it smell bad, don't use it. Animal with a brain (fishes, shrimps) often spit bad food out. Scavenger can utilize spoiled food, but brainless animals (anemones) will ingest things according to chemical stimuli and will take in spoiled food and get infected and will not do well with a spoiled meal. Sometime they recover, other time they don't. Siverside and krill frozen with gut intact will spoil quickly if thaw out. I know that may LFS and wholesaler will just refreeze thaw out fish food then sell them. This is a huge no-no with human food.
IMO, feeding anemones with krill and silverside or other frozen fish food is like playing Russian roulette with their lives. You will never know which feeding is going to be their last feeding. This just my opinion after loosing a anemone and spend time thinking about it for a while trying to decide why I lost that healthy thriving H. magnifica
IMO, feeding anemones with krill and silverside or other frozen fish food is like playing Russian roulette with their lives. You will never know which feeding is going to be their last feeding. This just my opinion after loosing a anemone and spend time thinking about it for a while trying to decide why I lost that healthy thriving H. magnifica
Large Food
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In the wild chances are your anemones dont ever get a peice of food bigger then your thumbnail. When you feed a chunk of silverside there is bone and scale and everything.
Anemones dont get to eat that and it takes them longer to digest. If your luck it regurgiates if not it will rot inside of its body. I had two RBTA's rot from the inside out and come back.
Large Food
In the wild chances are your anemones dont ever get a peice of food bigger then your thumbnail. When you feed a chunk of silverside there is bone and scale and everything.
Anemones dont get to eat that and it takes them longer to digest. If your luck it regurgiates if not it will rot inside of its body. I had two RBTA's rot from the inside out and come back.
Lmecher
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I don't feed mine silversides because my first anemone didn't like them, well it would just let it fall. Since I some people had problems never tried them again. I use krill, large mysis, scallops or shrimp. All fresh or frozen seafood is treated with a preservative. Rinse, rinse and rinse some or it will add phospates to your system. If rinsed well, you can feed any marine based seafood.
rhdoug
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FWIW, I fed my H. crispa chopped up chunks of silversides for the first 3-4 years with no problems. I even fed it whole ones from time to time. I have also fed it whole krill as well. I now feed it only what the tank gets, (frozen mix containing mysis, krill, cyclopeeze, and various other stuff). I just give it a squirt every few days, and it does catch quite a bit on its own when I feed the fish. I have had it for almost 8 years.
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