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mohammadali
11-17-2013, 11:12 PM
Hi reefers i was wondering what do you guys feed your anemone ?

Magickiwi
11-17-2013, 11:27 PM
Hi reefers i was wondering what do you guys feed your anemone ?

Which one?

- RBTA
- Green Carpet
- Carribean Rock
- Neon tube

mohammadali
11-18-2013, 12:52 AM
RBTA & GBTA and any other anemone
i wanna feed my RBTA a piece of salmon if its safe

Madreefer
11-18-2013, 01:01 AM
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
You don't need to feed them.

HaZRaTTy
11-18-2013, 01:48 AM
I feed them chunks of shrimp after feeding the eel.

You don't need to feed them but that doesn't mean you can't / shouldn't

mohammadali
11-18-2013, 02:24 AM
i just gave about a penny size salmon fish to my RBTA

xenon
11-18-2013, 02:26 AM
We feed our BTA's silversides.

When we notice they start loosing the bubbles on their tips we know its feeding time. :)

martinmcnally
11-18-2013, 08:22 PM
I feed my RBTAs whole raw shrimp about one every 2 weeks or so. They are growing like crazy.

Madreefer
11-18-2013, 08:59 PM
I feed my RBTAs whole raw shrimp about one every 2 weeks or so. They are growing like crazy.

Wouldn't you rather have more space for other cool corals?

martinmcnally
11-18-2013, 09:41 PM
I am regretting having 2 huge RBTAs actually haha. Maybe time to sell one.

mohammadali
11-19-2013, 10:44 AM
lol i kept like as big as a softball size fresh salmon but i sold my tank today :( mo more RBTA
im thinking to get a carpet anemone purple one got a 65g red sea now :) if the carpet anemone would be okay in there

msjboy
11-19-2013, 04:36 PM
I feed nothing to my rbta ( split from one giant one to 4 - sold one, have 3 remaining) and green bubble tip nems (started with one, now probably 9 - 11 of them)... they seem to thrive just on light alone... all in a Red Sea max 34 gallon tank.

Magickiwi
11-19-2013, 05:11 PM
Carpet nem: gets either silversides, raw shrimp, or mysis
RBTA: sometimes gets pieces of raw shrimp or mysis, it doesn't enjoy eating as much as my carpet nem
tube nem: mysis and pieces of chopped raw shrimp
rock nem: mysis or pieces of chopped raw shrimp

Can't seem to get my rbta to eat much of anything. Just doesn't get hungry but it has great color and the tissue seems very healthy, doesn't bubble up though. My carpet nem on the other hand... I could empty a whole bag of shrimp into it if I wanted. That thing eats and eats and eats. The rock nem is pretty selective about when it wants to eat. I think it probably gets a lot of fauna from the sand as well as pellets etc. dropping from heaven. My tube nem eats like you'd think a ballerina would, so graceful and gently. It picks a mysis out of the water and slowly puts it in its mouth.

Do I need to feed them? I dunno. Do I like feeding them? Yep! And they seem to like it too.

SanguinesDream
11-19-2013, 05:43 PM
After two separate incidents of this....

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll40/Mamaterra_album/Nem.jpg

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll40/Mamaterra_album/20130809_144951.jpg

I started feeding my nems but then got this....

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll40/Mamaterra_album/Nem2.jpg

and copious amounts of anemone poop, so I am going to go a little lighter on the feeding.