Do you ever feed your anemone live food

[danny zubot]

What stood out in my mind about the above statements is that you feed your anemone daily. I used to feed mine once or twice a week at the most and it faired well. With proper lighting an anemone shouldn't require daily feedings, wouldn't you agree?

[Delphinus]

Me? With the exception of my ritteri I don't actually target feed my anemones more than once per week. Anemones for the most part aren't gluttons. Likely they do catch food intended for fish, so they are probably getting more than one realizes anyhow.

My ritteri does get a small amount of mysis every day though. It's just easier that way, this anemone has a high metabolism and does require a lot more food than other species. It's one reason the anemone puts a HUGE load on a tank. I have to feed my CBB mysis daily (only food he eats besides live oysters or live clams or whatever I can find at T&T for him, so I always have some mysis going anyhow).

[digital-audiophile]

There is a lot of conflicting information on the web though, some suggesting fedding all the way from once a day to not required at all.

I feed my two small guys daily becuase there are reeally really small, I am trying to help encourage growth. My big BTA I'll feed maybe every 3-4 days, but I am thinking that maybe I should scrap the silversides.

[Delphinus]

Hey Greg, my suggestion, feed the anemones a generous splop of mysis from a turkey baster say every 2-3 days to encourage growth. If you prefer to level out the growth, cut back to say weekly.

Honestly, I hardly ever feed my BTA's anymore. I try to shoot them a splop of mysis whenever I think of it, but there's no regularity to the routine. I've tried everything from feeding generously every day to not feeding for well over a month, and to be honest I've never really noticed any difference in growth rates. It's like they decide how big they will be. What did vary, is how often they would split. When I fed them super generously, I got more splits in a year. When I fed them less, I got fewer splits.

[digital-audiophile]

I will cut back on the mysis and see what happenes.