My new anenome feeding technique (1 Viewer)

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I came up with a new way to feed my BTAs tell me what you think.

I had two problems, my BTAs would spit up chunks of food if they were too large and also it was difficult for me to get enough small pieces of food in the anenomes mouth before it either floated into the water column or the clowns dug it out. Giving an anenome frozen food is not good so feeding cyclop-eeze or mysis didn't give my BTAs much to snack on. So I started pulverizing mysis shrimp and mixing it with cyclop-eeze and a couple of table spoons of tank water. I stick that into a pipet and put it right over the BTAs mouth. As I slowly squirt out the food the BTA closes all around allowing me to give a lot of food to it. I have yet to see anything spit out and it is so easy that I am feeding 5 days a week.

When I have a little left in the bowl I stick the pipet in the water and slowy squirt it into my female cinnamon's mouth. She loves getting a mouthful of cyclop-eeze without chasing little small pieces around the tank. She gets so excited when I put the pipet in the tank she almost jumps out to get at it. I have to watch it though I was kalking a aipstia today and she wanted to get a mouthfull of that to because it was in a pipet.

 

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Good idea. 1 ?? though. Why feed it 5 times a week?? That really is not necessary. JMO

 

[Guest]

how often should you feed it? i have a small BTA, and im trying to get it to grow some before i get a clown for it... and why cant you feed it frozen food? LFS gave me frozen brine shrimp and said to give him a piece half the size of a dime.... what should i be doing?

 

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I would try a small peice of fresh shrimp tail, or some silversides. Not whole silversides but a nice size peice. Feeding once a week should suffice if you have enough lighting to support its photosynthesis.

Small hunks of shrimp are easy to handle. And if the anen spits it out, its easier to fish our of the tank before it rots in your system...

just my 2 cents. and alot easy to feed and make. I but 75 cents worth of shrimp from Wally-mart, and it usually nets about 8-10 shrimp, and I feed a 14+ inch ritt, and 2 small BTA and it still lasts about 14 days.. Peel, and soak in selco/selcon, and feed. No mixing, no pipetting, and NO SPOILED HANDFED fish!!

 

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I have more than enough light for them 300w VHO on a 25G. The idea is to make them fat, happy, splitting BTAs. As long as they are not spiting up the food it is good for them. I would like to set up my 58G soon take all my coral out of this one and leave just a ton of BTAs. The whole pipet thing is easy for me it takes less than a minute to feed them. Also Cyclop-Eeze gives them a nice red color. When I fed shrimp every once in a while I would find it spit out. Other times the BTA would close up and the fish would pry the shrimp out leaving the BTA with nothing.


eric281- You don't want to feed anenomes forzen food because they are almos 90% water and the frozen food can kill their tissue or so I have read.