Bubble Tip food poll, what and how often do you feed your BTA?

[nimoryan]

So I am curious what you all feed you Bubble Tip anemones and how often.... Trying to get a idea as there seems to be a lot of different thoughts out there. If you can answer these three questions for me I would really appreciate it. I used to feed mine in my old tank a rotation of Silversides, Shrimp, Calamari from the local fish market.... but when I looked on the forums here there is a wide base of varied opinions on this so... I was wondering what a poll would say.....

What do you feed

How often do you feed

Comments on the above....


Thank you all.

 

[skinz78]

I got rid of all my bubble tips but when I had them I just fed them brine shrimp every other day.

 

[Gp2]

Krill every other day

 

[DrTrey]

I just feed mine a bit of Rod's food once or twice a week, along with the occasional piece of shrimp

 

[btkrausen]

Mine would get Mysis from my clowns feeding it, and then I would give it half of a silverside every so often. You could tell when he was hungry by how fast he grabbed the silverside. Some days, he'd just kinda let it be, others, it would be in his mouth within a a minute or two.

 

[chappy]

had a tank full for over a decade and i go years with out feeding them

 

[Viva'sReef]

Never did feed mine directly. The clowns would feed it when they were too full though

 

[Emoney]

Fed mine Silverslides and he loved it! (fed him on accident when feeding scolys saw that he liked it and fed him a few more) also herd it helps them split

 

[Ericm1205]

i got 6 bubbles and 1 LTA and 1 gig. i never feed mine directly and never silversides. read too many silverside horror stories with nems dying from spoiled food to try and feed them silversides.
i do feed my tanks heavy so they do get fed indirectly mysis, cyclops and whatever blows into them.

 

[beaner_12]

i feed mine every 3 days, brine shrimp and a big piece of shrimp at the end.

 

[jiffy]

i was wondering this same thing, because i would imagine ur nitrate levels going a lil high from all the feedings (every other day).. in the begginning i was feeding every few days (mysis, brine, blood worms, maybe live brine every now and then). plus id have to feed my fish first otherwise nemo would just eat all the food (obviously not the best relationship between the two, seems to benefit nemo way more!).

 

[Reef@holic]

I feed once every other week sometimes I go longer than that and mine have always looked great

 

[VelasCorals]

My clowns would feed mine. I would also feed whole silversides. So awesome to watch it pull a while fish in. I only did that about once a month.

 

[CHALICEKEEPER]

My clowns fed it mysis and about 1 time a month i would give them silversides thats it

 

[Viva'sReef]

Not sure about you guys but I would NEVER put silversides in my Reef. Those things are nasty, stinky, oily, nitrate bombs.

Using them for feeding larger aggresive FOWLR tanks is ok, but not a Reef IMHO

 

[frickenfragger]

Everyother day or so I feed one krill. Also gets some indirect feeding as well I would think.

 

[mjplumber]

I feed mine once a week with shrimp and sometimes silversides, haven't had any issues in two yrs

 

[Anthony Calfo]

Daily...mysis soaked in Selcon, high protein (vitamin enriched) sinking pellets and a small amount of Coral Frenzy (or the like...basically a mix of superfine zoo- and phyto plankters).

I cut my RBTAS ni half every 10-20 days, so the heavy feeding is needed obviously for growth and healing

NOTE: feeding is mandatory for growth and reproduction...lighting alone will not work. Do not feed nitrogen sources...that is fuel for life in our tanks. It just needs to be managed mindfully like anything else

 

[skinz78]

Hey Anthony welcome to R2R!

I know you have some real nice Nems and lots of research behind keeping them so to me your word is gospel!

 

[Baboo11]

Brine Shrimp for Anemones?

I just got my first RBTA (ooooohhhh! It's so exciting!!!)...I hadn't heard of feeding them brine shrimp until reading this forum - how do you do it? With a syringe? The brine shrimp I have are frozen & thaw into a soupy mess....also, can I feed this anemone frozen (thawed) shrimp from the grocery store? Sorry if these are simplistic questions, but I am a newbie! Thanks! :angel: