A lot of the anemone would have problem with pH spike. My Magnifica and Gigantea got deflated when my Kalk pump malfunction and pump Kalk in too fast. Almost kill them but I detected and correct the problem on time.
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Anemone’s have a symbiotic relationship..
So at this point you’re probably asking yourself
Source: A Biology of Sea Anemones by J. Malcom Shick
I doubt the amount or type of food will keep your nem where young it, they move to areas of suitable flow and light. That is what makes them happy. The key is to know your nem, how much flow and light is required for the speciesI'm trying to feed my new bubble tip anemone a quarter cube of food daily to try to get it to not move from its current spot . . . no idea if it's helping or not, but it makes me feel better!
What can I use to dose phosphates? Mine are pretty much a zero @ .01ppm. I’ve tried over feeding. Po4 won’t raise.That's fantastic news @Robin Haselden . My only goal in helping is to try to help people enjoy as many of them as I can. They are the reason I got into this hobby.
Brightwell aquatics makes a product called neophos that essentially doses p04 (fyi im no expert). I believe its about $15 for 500 ML and they also make neonitro for nitrate. hope that helps !What can I use to dose phosphates? Mine are pretty much a zero @ .01ppm. I’ve tried over feeding. Po4 won’t raise.
Thank you so much! Yes I did find that one- I ended up ordering a food grade disodium phosphate recommended by Randy HolmesBrightwell aquatics makes a product called neophos that essentially doses p04 (fyi im no expert). I believe its about $15 for 500 ML and they also make neonitro for nitrate. hope that helps !
It cant keep up with digestion. If you feed it every day, it will swell a little after feeding. After a few hours, it will shrink back down to normal size. When you do feed it, offer small bits of food and only offer a few bits to it. Basically the anemone should get the same amount of food the clownfish does, and it should be in small pieces so it's easier for the anemone to digest. If you put large pieces of food ( such as a whole prawn or shrimp) on the anemone, it will engulf the food and spend a few hours trying to digest it, then regurgitate the remaining pieces which will float off in the tank and cause water quality issues.I've noticed the more often I feed my nem the more they get "bubbled/inflated" (they were always stringy). May just be coincidence I dont know.
I've noticed the more often I feed my nem the more they get "bubbled/inflated" (they were always stringy). May just be coincidence I dont know.
When I want an anemone to grow I feed it. I feed anemone when I first get them so they have the energy to heal.
My Gigantea grew from 3 inches to 18 inches diameter in ?10 months or so with feeding. Without feeding they grow very little. I have a lot of fish so nutrients in my tank is not a problem, and I have ultra high light for my tank.
It is just common sense that feeding equate growth. If Mother Nature/God does not mean for my Gigantea to eat, my Gigantea would not have mouth nor strong stings to kill and eat fish. A Gigantea can kill and eat large fish. Strip the fish down to the bone and regurgitate the clean bone out too.
Any animals with symbiotic, may get some nutrients from it's symbiotic organism, but these animals do have mechanism to synthesize complex molecules and structures they needed to growth (making more cell, more membrane, muscles ...). Anemones may get some simple sugar and minor compounds from zooxanthellae but they do synthesize most everything they need themselves. The thinking that food feed to anemones have no direct benefit to the anemones, only direct benefit to the zooxanthellae is a fallacy. There are plenty of anemones that do not have zooxanthellae, and live solely on the food they catch (cold water anemones).
Even anemones that are completely, or mostly bleached will eat and grow. They will eventually recovered their complement of zooxanthellae, but many live and grow for prolong periord of them without, or without adequate zooxanthellae.
We are experienced in our tank Aptasia (the anemone in this article) living completely in the dark with minimal or light growing and multiplying strictly on the food they catch. We all know that to eliminate Aptasia, we got to eliminate the ones that grow in the overflow tubes and sump. Without eliminating these Aptasia, they will multiply and will return to our DT. These Aptasia live solely on food they catch, not light.
Food directly benefit anemones and zooxznthellae. Feeding will result in healthier anemones and faster growing anemones. You many or may not want this to happen, but these should be no category far reaching conclusion that the article/and OP seem to come up with.