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| In a tragically funny example of my mantra to folks to not feed their anemones unnaturally large chunks of food (whole shrimp, whole fish, etc)... an example: http://www.sareefkeeping.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3565 They really will regurgitate large meats. Moreover, it's more often done at night, after feedings... leaving the keeper to think their anemone is well fed, but really the anemone starves slowly over time for yacking after each feeding and getting little to no appreciable nutrition via target feeding with big chunks. For anemones at large, feed zooplankton-like substitutes... especially for the smaller anemone species. Mysids are a fine choice, for example. Feed them in a saltwater slurry to the anemone.
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| Eew. Thanks. 
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What about the Corallife "Invert. Smorgasborg?" I've been target feeding mine with this a while--do you think this is a good choice or not? Thanks
Eric
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I prefer to feed anemones fresh or fresh-frozen meats of marine origin such as mysid shrimp, pacifica plankton, minced cocktail shrimp, etc
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| Anthony, I have a recipe of the following: 1/2 Tilapia 1/4 Scallop 1/4 Shrimp I blended this up w/ some Kent ZoeMarine and froze it. I'll thaw it before feeding in some RO/DI water and then squeeze as much "juice" out of it as I can and roll it into a ball w/ some freeze-dried cyclopeeze. The ball is about the size of my pinky nail. The anemone ate this quickly, but I was suprised to see (i had fed the lysmata ambonensis a pellet to keep it away) the female clown bite at the mouth of the anemone. I had to shoo her away with my hand and once the anemone had completely closed its mouth over the food, she was allowed back in and left the mouth alone. I'm wondering if this is something that simply happens or do i need to (like the shrimp) feed the tank and while everyone's eating, then fed the anemone. thanks, Matt ps - joyce's book came yesterday. imo, the pictures alone make it worth the price, but the information looks great as well (what i've read so far). I wonder if she has plans for a revised edition?
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| whatever type of meats used... always remember that it should be like marine zooplankton... amphipod size or smaller (even amphipods are huge as zooplankton goes and anemone food) think minced or smaller for the meat bits
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| Anthony, The food is minced, but I ball it up. If I put it in the water column, it will break apart in the water column. Is this all right? thanks, Matt
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for the larger species and specimens it is well enough, though not ideal IMO. But this is not a good recipe or habit to recommend to anemone keepers at large. Anemones will regurgitate this ball just like oversized fishes fed or captured.
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| Anthony, As always, thanks for the information! I'll begin to feed smaller pieces. Matt
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| I might be paranoid, but I am also in the habit of freezing any fresh seafoods overnight that will be used to feed any fish / coral or invert out of fear of introducing parasites / intestinal worms and such. Chuck
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