Feeding a sebae anemone, help...

[palmer]

OK. What's the correct way to do this? I've tried small pieces of shrimp and fish (after trying to find the mouth of the thing) and I believe I've been successful one time. I've had the sebae for about 3 weeks and it looks great. The trouble I am having is trying to keep the cleaner shrimp away from the peice of food. They dig it out and take off with it. I have a slong skinny piece of plastic with the food on the tip of it and stick in directly in the sebae. It reacts quite quickly but if I don't have the food right on the mouth, still not sure where it is, I'm constantly chasing off the shrimp, stressing out the other aquarium fish. Any suggestions on how to do this 'correctly'? Feed how often? SIze is about 5" 'diameter'.
54 gallon bo-tank
175 watt MH
130 Actinic blue PC's

 

[crazy4reefs]

you can try distracting the shrimp while you feed your anemone. my cleaner shrimp will go to my hand when i put it in the tank. i feed them small pellets of food to keep them busy while i feed the anemone.

 

[thomas712]

Had the problem many times before, they are just like children squabling over the food. You really have to give them a chunk first so they can go off into there corner and chow while you feed the anemone.
You will have to watch the little buggers though as they may finish and then still steal from the anemone.
Thomas