Anemone help

[Miketeachme]

I just got an anemone and don't exactly know how to feed it. I have placed krill on it's tentacles and they are taken into it. How can you tell if its eating?

 

[mr_X]

If it accepts the food and pulls it in, it's eating it. What lighting do you have over this tank?

 

[DRCREEFER]

I feed mine very small smooshed pieces of shrimp that I rinse and soak in salt water for a 1/2 hour. If you watch closely when you give it to a tentacle several tentacles will also come in and pull it into its mouth our tube. 1 Rookie mistake I made with feeding shrimp was using a whole small shrimp. It died, Learned the hard way!! I have been very successful with feeding them very small pieces smooshed alittle to help them digest it faster!! Krill is a good choice also! but like any animal a proper diet is vital to health. Anenomes has to be my favorites I currently have 3 and pick up a new one every month. Slow and easy is the key to growing a beautiful reef tank.

 

[DRCREEFER]

how long has your tank been up? soempeople say it takes several months of salt water cycles to start introducing anmones . I started introducing about 3-4 weeks in to mine.

 

[Miketeachme]

If it accepts the food and pulls it in, it's eating it. What lighting do you have over this tank?

I feed mine very small smooshed pieces of shrimp that I rinse and soak in salt water for a 1/2 hour. If you watch closely when you give it to a tentacle several tentacles will also come in and pull it into its mouth our tube. 1 Rookie mistake I made with feeding shrimp was using a whole small shrimp. It died, Learned the hard way!! I have been very successful with feeding them very small pieces smooshed alittle to help them digest it faster!! Krill is a good choice also! but like any animal a proper diet is vital to health. Anenomes has to be my favorites I currently have 3 and pick up a new one every month. Slow and easy is the key to growing a beautiful reef tank.

how long has your tank been up? soempeople say it takes several months of salt water cycles to start introducing anmones . I started introducing about 3-4 weeks in to mine.

Thank you

 

[DRCREEFER]

Something that I have found my sps, lps and anemones really like is called FIJI MUD. I add 1.5 tsp. once a week ( 150 g tank) , I have seen polyps popping all over the place and the anemones love it. Unfortunately i had something going on crazy in my tank and lost 2 more anems last week. I done a 50% water change added some Fiji mud and saved my remaining anem, He is looking very healthy and is eating any grine shrimp, krill and shrimp i give him 2 times a week, plus what ever else he scavenges away from the fish feeding periods.

Good luck and keep posting us some pics.

 

[mr_X]

A spoon full of mud is not going to help anything. the water change did, however.