Anemones are werid!

[alexknight]

The BTA I have been nursing back to health will only eat one thing. cheep shrimp from John Brook's I have tried. Silver sliders, formal one, krill, almost anything you name it. you can see the last of the shrimp being eaten what a weird guy...

 

[rostato]

how have you been "nursing" the anemone?

 

[perfectdark]

What type of lighting is it under?
FWIW, the meals you are offering it should be small chopped even minced and administered with a turkey baster type utensil.
The reason behind this method is, the food is meant to aid in the recovery of the animal by giving it added nutrients. Consuming a large meal takes a lot of energy for an anemone. So it the added nutrients is lost in the process of consumption and digestion of a large piece of food. Where as chopped or minced food is very easy to consume and doesnt take much energy at all to do. The anemone will benefit from the nutrients while not expending all of its energy on digestion and consumption. HTH.

 

[scubamatt007]

Good to hear from someone in NM....Im from Bloomfield up by Farmington. If you ever have any events down in ABQ let me know....nada up here...petsmart and a LFS in Durango...thats it. Thanks!!

 

[alexknight]

I got it to start eating sliver sliders!! woot woot. and I do chop them up. hey hey! yes someone from NM! I would say really the " only " good store is south west reef they know what they are doing everything is pretty much crap... that anemone I saved from clark's they really don't know what they are doing with saltwater. I think once a mouth there is a reef club, to trade/ frag stuff but I have never gone myself. I am thinking about it. not much of a drive down to alb only 2 1/2 hours in good weather.