Anemone question??

[tehawesome]

So here is my question. I was curious is there any types of seafood or frozen meats i can get from the local grocery store to feed my anemone?? If so how would i prepare them??

 

[glxtrix]

You technically don't "have" to feed your nem. They get nutrition from your lights as well as any food fragments that pass by when you feed your tank. If you have hosting clowns, they will also feed the nem by either bringing it food, or eating their poop. Sick I know, but that's what happens in the wild. Feeding it won't hurt, but you don't need to buy anything special for it. Nems will eat just about anything. A little bit of thawed brine or mysis never hurts if you feel like feeding.

 

[tehawesome]

I wanted to feed it once or twice a week to help it grow faster and I was just curious if there was anything I could but at the grocery store instead cuz frozen is a bit expensive at LFS.

 

[dakota9]

Publix Seafood Medley, but take out the one cooked part (I think its mussels or oysters). Personally, I just feed my nem what ever I'm feeding the tank that day, Cyclopeze, Barf or typically, just flake food through a turkey baster (lesser chance of nitrites building).....

If you feed seafood to your nem, or even silversides or something, make sure you mush it up well first. Too many people make the mistake of giving food too large in particle size to a nem, and they just expel it and the food sits and rots in the tank unoticed.

 

[chriswkbrd]

I used to go to the farmers market and buy shrimp, scallops and squid. I would cut it up in small pieces and freeze them in ice cube trays. Then I would just melt one when I was ready to feed it. That's what I would feed mine, probably over doing it, but it did split 2 different times.

 

[dangit2001]

yea I feed mines shrimp all the time. I have 4 anemone's and just give them a small piece of shrimp or sometimes salmon.

 

[shrimpy brains]

Yes, all of the above or any raw seafood with no additives. I like to get a mixture of whatever is reasonably priced, put in a blender with some vitamins and a little garlic extreme till I have very small pieces and freeze in small portions. Then thaw out and serve as needed.
I still get Nori sheets, mysis and emerald entree for specialized feeding.(seahorses, LMB, tang etc.)

 

[tehawesome]

Oh wow i didnt know they could eat all that stuff. Thanks for the help ill check my store tomorrow for that stuff.

 

[dakota9]

Back 15 years ago, I read an old and now infamous article written by one of the peripheral "experts" of the day that suggested one could/should feed chucks of beef to an anemone. I'm not advocating nor suggesting that anyone try this but just mentioning it to point out how far we have come in this hobby.

Hard to believe someone would consider such a thing.

 

[shrimpy brains]

Dakota9;505408 wrote: Back 15 years ago, I read an old and now infamous article written by one of the peripheral "experts" of the day that suggested one could/should feed chucks of beef to an anemone. I'm not advocating nor suggesting that anyone try this but just mentioning it to point out how far we have come in this hobby.

Hard to believe someone would consider such a thing.

Wow, that's scary! Now, they don't even suggest feeding freshwater fish to Salt Critters!

 

[jeffmuse]

I have 3 anemones, and I feed them mysis shrimp once per week... they all seem to love the mysis!

 

[dakota9]

Shrimpy Brains;505411 wrote: Wow, that's scary! Now, they don't even suggest feeding freshwater fish to Salt Critters!

True. I haven't owned a lion fish in 20 years, but wonder what they are fed now days when they only want live food.

Once a week, I used to stop and get 3 or 4 feeder guppies that I kept in a fish bowl beside my tank. The lion fish ate nothing else but live food.


I wonder what I would fed now in the same situation? Ugly Damsels?