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10-07-2007, 10:29 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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   |  Feeding a Long Tentacle Plate
Any ideas or hints on feeding a LT Plate? I have tried pieces of mysis and raw shrimp, on the end of a feeding spear, directly feeding with hand(dont like putting my hand in the tank too often), syringe, and the Kent Feeding Prong. Not having too much success. _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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10-07-2007, 11:10 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Try offering brine shrimp with a turkey baster or syringe! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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10-07-2007, 11:23 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Hey Tom, Thanks...I have tried that as well, keeping the Cleaner and Coral Banded shrimp away is a task in itself. LOL | |
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10-07-2007, 11:25 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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I used to feed mine thawed out pieces of silversides. I would put them on the plate and let the coral take over from there. _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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10-07-2007, 11:28 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Hey Brandon, Thanks...i just picked up some silversides last night. Tried that his morning, enter the CB and Cleaner shrimps once again..LOL. I am going to keep at it.... | |
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10-08-2007, 10:07 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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Oh yea when I feed my Sun Coral it's the same business. The fish go and peck the food right off of it. It makes me mad but what do you do, ya know? They're wild animals and are just acting on instinct. You could try covering the plate with some kind of plastic bowl. Also try and get the silversides as close to the plate's mouth as possible so it can maybe have a better chance at getting it eaten before the fish have their way. One more thing is you could feed the fish immediately after you put the silverside down there to try and keep them distracted. The problem is the plates are so SLOW in eating. | |
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10-08-2007, 10:48 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Hey, thanks again, Brandon. Yeah, i use a cup over my orange Tubastrea, especially when feeding cyclop-eeze. I take an unused plastic cup with a whole cut out of the bottom and then with my Kent Feeding prong begin feeding. I have thought about that with the LT Plate but it is so large, about 9" in diameter. I am not sure what to use. | |
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10-08-2007, 12:51 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Cut a 2 liter pop bottle in half and use the top half  | |
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10-08-2007, 01:23 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Thank you...I am not sure that it will be big enough...I will, however, give it a try... | |
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