How Often Do you feed Your BTA?
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Verduzco
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What do you feed. I've tried silversides but they end up spitting out. I've squirted brine shrimp and I guess they've taken some in. Regardless all my nems do well and grow. Green LTA with pink tips just split a 3rd time and my Sherman reds were splitting almost every 2 weeks.
MelissaKathryn
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I'd like to know the same please! Great question!
Twice a week. Chopped squid
o2manyfish
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I got 2 small green BTA what will be 2 years this coming Labor day.
I put 1 in my display tank under halides and 1 in my outdoor sump.
The indoor bta split and made two that were about 4" in the first few months.
Then I started dosing alot more kalkwasser and the anemones began to flourish and color up much more.
The outdoor BTA split and left me with one which is 18" and one 12"
The indoors (there were 2) both split at the same time about 8 weeks ago and I ended up with 4 8-10".
And this past week one of the splits spit again, but split in 3 directions at once.
So I now have at least 2 jumbos outside, and inside between 6 and 7.
I don't feed them anything. They get only what the fish bring them.
Dave B
I put 1 in my display tank under halides and 1 in my outdoor sump.
The indoor bta split and made two that were about 4" in the first few months.
Then I started dosing alot more kalkwasser and the anemones began to flourish and color up much more.
The outdoor BTA split and left me with one which is 18" and one 12"
The indoors (there were 2) both split at the same time about 8 weeks ago and I ended up with 4 8-10".
And this past week one of the splits spit again, but split in 3 directions at once.
So I now have at least 2 jumbos outside, and inside between 6 and 7.
I don't feed them anything. They get only what the fish bring them.
Dave B
afamousjohnson
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+1 I feed them nothing. They work themselves into a position to feed in the wild and will do the same in a tank in most cases(I have seen them have to be moved manually for success before). They walk where they need to feed not to kill corals. Dog eat Dog. But ya I feed mine nothing and they thrive.
Dtech07
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Twice a week either a small piece of raw shrimp, squid, fish. These thing would be what would be available in the wild and BTA can take months to starve to death and when they do its to late to save. I know I can't put enough food in my tank like the wild with crashing my tank so I provide small amounts to support them.
Eckolancer
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Never feed them they catch what they can. Have a couple splits every month.
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TheClownGuy
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Bubble tip doesn't require a lot of food as they get most of it from the lights but feeding it will help it grow faster to the size you want. People that dont feed their nems I am sure it gets scrap from floating food when one feeds the fish. I feed my atleast 1 a week with krill mysis shrimp table shrimp octopus salmon and sometime pellets yes pellets.. No silversides. Feeding them manually along with lighting will make your nem grow faster but if you want to slow their growth don't manually feed it.
SeahorseKeeper
Where's the mysis?
I never spot feed any of my anemones.
LivinTheSwreefLife
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I feed whatever I'm feeding my clown triggerfish: raw table shrimp or tilapia (cut into bite-sized pieces) defrosted and soaked in Selcon, usually once a week (or whenever I remember). My nem grew from about 2" to being over 1', and has split once (each clone is now 1')
