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Feeding Shrooms
I just got my first shrooms and I am wondering what they eat. I thought they just got everything they needed from light, but after reading a few threads I might be wrong. I have a 24 gallon Nano Cube with stock florescent lighting, 10k. They look great and are adjusting well in the tank, just wanted to know what to feed them. They are just plain blue and red shrooms, nothing fancy.
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I don't direct feed anything to my shrooms. They filter feed from the water.
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Should I be dosing the water with anything? I currently feep Phyto plankton and marine crusine to the other inhabitantants.
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cyclop-eeze is a great food for all coral. your shrooms will eat what falls on them. target feeding is not essential.
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Whew! I finally did something right! I don't feed mine either, they get the phyto and what ever happens by.
Like your avatar Fancyfish! One of the best clown pics I've seen for avatars. Are they yours?
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Thanks Allie. yes they are mine. I had the female by herself for over a year and she began to host in my flower pot coral...I traded it for the corals sake I subsequently bought the bubble tip and a small clown. both jumped into the anenome on the first day. The small one almost never gets out. my larger clown comes and goes.
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Here is the full photo. tough to size these down to avatar and keep quality
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Sweet mother of pearl! Nice.
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Very nice pic fancy fish!
To answer the original question, once in a while I'll feed a small piece of mysis to some of my regular (discosoma) shrooms, which is what I assume you're referring to. They don't really need to be fed, but I enjoy their feeding reponse. I target feed my hairy shroom and my ricordeas once a week though with a mixture of mysis, cyclopeeze and selcon.
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Many poeple also use an iodine additive like lugols solution.
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What would be the best way to target feed. I assume that you mean that I should try to feed the middle of the shroom, that kinda looks like a small mouth. Do they acually eat???
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Use teezers, a turkey baster or an eyedropper and aim for the mouth. Yes they actually eat it, if they decide to.
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When target feeding is it best to turn off the flow? So the food sits where you want it or should you just squirt some on them and let it go where it goes with the flow?
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I turn my powerheads off completely.
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Thanks For the advice! I will have to give that a try.
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