Placing your anemone once you get it home can also be a challenge for aquarium hobbyists.
Carpet anemone food.
They ll usually eat anything made of flesh including brine shrimp clam meat whole shrimps and feeder fishes like goldfish and guppies.
In general you ll find that carpet anemones can be absolute hogs.
The long tentacle anemone needs to be fed 1 or 2 times a week.
When healthy this anemone is very sticky to the touch and when they grasp something or someone it is very difficult to convince it to let go without damaging the animal.
Some feed anemones standard aquarium fare such as cut fish or shrimp on a regular basis while others refrain from feeding these tentacled pets any food at all instead allowing the symbiotic algae living within the anemones to produce all of the creatures nutrition.
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Because of their symbiotic algae carpet anemones need intense lighting to do well.
The ideal foods for anemones are protein rich foods such as scallops clams shrimp and mussels.
The experience of almost every carpet anemone owner is that most of their fish will eventually be eaten.
Feeding carpet anemones are voracious eaters and all species should be fed weekly to bi weekly depending upon the health and size of the animal and the lighting conditions in the aquarium.
You can feed your long tentacle anemone chopped shrimp krill and mussels fresh chopped fish from your grocery store as well as frozen carnivore preparations.
Carpet anemones should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items shrimp shellfish fish and krill to name a few attained from your local grocery store chopped to about 5mm in size.
Carpet anemone should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items shrimp shellfish fish and krill to name a few attained from your local grocery store chopped to about 1 4 inches in size.
To accelerate the growth of your anemones feed them once a week or more often.
Carpet anemones should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items shrimp shellfish fish and krill to name a few attained from your local grocery store chopped to about 5 mm in size.
All overflow and other similar areas should have their intakes covered with a sponge to prevent damage should the anemone go wondering around the aquarium.
In the natural habitat anemones eat zooplankton and fish they catch with their tentacles.
