Clowns and anemones

[Lee Keen Hoong Ernest]

Hi everybody,

Will appreciate if you guys can help a newbie like me. May i know how do i
feed my anemones? I've been told that their diet consists of crustaceans and
small fishes. Will fresh water shrimps like the ghost shrimps do? And how do
i go about feeding it? Is there any special techniques?

Thanks

[richard reynolds]

all you have to do is populate your tank with tons of small fish that make an easy meal :)

ok seriously you can place pieces of thawed krill or silversides or just about any other
meaty fish like product search around there are a zillion recipies, take that chunk and
move it around the top of the anemone when he grabs it up and swallows then your done, try
to feed them every few days

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richard reynolds



Lee Keen Hoong Ernest > wrote in message
...
> Hi everybody,
>
> Will appreciate if you guys can help a newbie like me. May i know how do i
> feed my anemones? I've been told that their diet consists of crustaceans and
> small fishes. Will fresh water shrimps like the ghost shrimps do? And how do
> i go about feeding it? Is there any special techniques?
>
> Thanks
>
>

[Don Geddis]

"Lee Keen Hoong Ernest" > writes:
> Will appreciate if you guys can help a newbie like me. May i know how do i
> feed my anemones? I've been told that their diet consists of crustaceans and
> small fishes. Will fresh water shrimps like the ghost shrimps do? And how do
> i go about feeding it? Is there any special techniques?

Sal****er food is probably better than freshwater. E.g. krill, Formula One,
squid, etc.

Feeding is easy. Thaw (if frozen), and just toss the chunks by hand into the
nest of anemone tentacles, near the mouth (center). If healthy, the tentacles
should be sticky and should grab on to the food. Then the anemone will
inflate the outside, and suck in the mouth area, until you see mostly the
anemone column, with a little tuft of tentacles at the top. That's how it
drags the food into its mouth area.

-- Don
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Don Geddis http://reef.geddis.org/

[Andy Weir]

I've never fed my bubble anemones directly in the two years they have been
in my tank. I guess they get whatever is in the water column or whatever my
clowns give them, though I've never really seen that happening.

[Lee Keen Hoong Ernest]

Thanks everybody. I'll go try out right away.