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- Philippines
Feeding Carpet Anemones
- Thread starter inkblue
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- Philippines
sorry for sounding ignoramus... rbta?? :bigeyes2:
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- Philippines
Oki... thanks. Do you guys just feed them goldfish or frozen stuff...
- Location
- Queens, NY
Yea, my clown always spits scraps of food into the anemone. Usually I feed my anemone 2 frozen prawns once a week.
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- Philippines
i'll take some pics of them tonite. thanks for selling me the trio Steve, they are awesome to watch!! :afro:
Should I just feed my condylactis anemone raw shrimp from the store? I accidentally bought frozen 'baby brine shrimp' at the LFS and they basically are so small that you can't see the individual shrimp! Should I feed it more than once a week? sorry for jumping on the thread!
Missy Johnson
Masta of Disasta
- Location
- Upper East Side
yeah you can feed him raw shrimp from the store. watch out though, they can grow to be huge and sting everything in your tank with their tentacles.
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- Philippines
hmm, am thinking of making my own food-blend with mussels, scallops, shrimps, etc.
:approve: any suggestions...
:approve: any suggestions...
Missy Johnson
Masta of Disasta
- Location
- Upper East Side
check out brett's recipe....
I only have a 20 gallon tank, so I only make small batches.
Total seafood is about $10 worth, and it lasts me 6 months.
Squid
shrimp (More on it later)
mussles
oysters
small slice of salmon (from my roommate's dinner. shhh don't tell her)
a chunk of cyclopeeze
selcon/selco
some freshly made salt water
Put the seafood in the blender. I also add the juice from the mussles and oysters. Leave out a bit of the shrimp. Add some salt water as needed to thin it down a bit. (Shrimp gets really gummy if you blend it too long. so short pulses are the way to go!)
Drop in the cyclo, selcon pulse again.
add the shrimp you left out and pulse a few times. this leaves some of the shrimp chunky for the fish to have fun with. (ever see two clowns play tug of war with a piece of food?)
Spread the whole mixture into small icecube trays and freeze. I have trays designated for fish food only.
Pull the trays out and let them thaw for a few minutes, and dump into tupperware.
I feed one cube every other day or so. Thow one into a shot glass and add some tank water. I target feed some of my lps, and then just dump the rest in the tank, and a bit in the fuge.
Other notes:
I used to throw a sheet of Nori (from the sushi counter) in with the food, but I realized I didn't have any herbivores to eat it.
I quit putting flake food in (Formula 1 prime reef) There's actually phosphates in proscessed foods. (Most scallops are treated with phosphates as well.)
Good luck!
B
I only have a 20 gallon tank, so I only make small batches.
Total seafood is about $10 worth, and it lasts me 6 months.
Squid
shrimp (More on it later)
mussles
oysters
small slice of salmon (from my roommate's dinner. shhh don't tell her)
a chunk of cyclopeeze
selcon/selco
some freshly made salt water
Put the seafood in the blender. I also add the juice from the mussles and oysters. Leave out a bit of the shrimp. Add some salt water as needed to thin it down a bit. (Shrimp gets really gummy if you blend it too long. so short pulses are the way to go!)
Drop in the cyclo, selcon pulse again.
add the shrimp you left out and pulse a few times. this leaves some of the shrimp chunky for the fish to have fun with. (ever see two clowns play tug of war with a piece of food?)
Spread the whole mixture into small icecube trays and freeze. I have trays designated for fish food only.
Pull the trays out and let them thaw for a few minutes, and dump into tupperware.
I feed one cube every other day or so. Thow one into a shot glass and add some tank water. I target feed some of my lps, and then just dump the rest in the tank, and a bit in the fuge.
Other notes:
I used to throw a sheet of Nori (from the sushi counter) in with the food, but I realized I didn't have any herbivores to eat it.
I quit putting flake food in (Formula 1 prime reef) There's actually phosphates in proscessed foods. (Most scallops are treated with phosphates as well.)
Good luck!
B
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dragonwrasse
Senior Member
- Location
- Fort Lee, NJ
inkblue said:
A while back I read Shimek's booklet on anemones pretty carefully. I think he said natural foods for carpets are fish. I had pretty good success with a carpet for a couple of years until it found the dreaded powerhead. I found that it ate everything, but I stuck to silversides for the most part. IMHO creating a blend just for anemones is not necessary. Small pieces of food that don't fall apart are probably better. With some keen observation on what it ingests and egests, you'll quickly figure out what's best for it.
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- Philippines
well, today since i hadnt done my research or planning, i just bought 2 minnows... i hope it likes them ok, or else... :dead1:
Anyone have a good idea on how to force a anenome to move without hurting it? The condy in my tank came with my rock order- and I really didn't want one in the 1st place as my tank is pretty small. It seems to have lodged itself in the rockwork and has not moved in a week or so. That would be fine if he didn't get any bigger, but if he gets too large... I don't plan on having a species tank, so I will need to get him out at some point!
- Location
- Philippines
I read somewhere to use ice, and it's feet will let go... let me know if it works 
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- Philippines
ok, fed my carpet 2 small minnows yesterday... i guess he was hungry :bigeyes2:
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