so i just had one of the coolest experiences with my tank yet! i thawed out a cube of mysid shrimp and took one in a tweezers to see if there would be any interest at all, and immediatly one of the shrimp swam over and grabbed it! so then i tried it with my hand and it took a second for one to feel me and make sure i wasn't going to eat him, but then he climbed onto my finger and started nibbling away at the mysid!! it was soooo cool!
so i fed until none of them swam over to my hand any more (everyone in the tank was really excited about it, the amphipods were all out, the crabs went crazy, all of my brittle stars and tubeworms had their arms way out, it was great!) and none of the sexies seem to be interested in eating anything after the feeding (not going around, picking at rocks, etc) so i think this will work to deter them from the zoas.
my question is, is there any way to promote healing in the polyps now that they've been brutalized? the yellow polyps got hit the hardest it looks like. they'll probably just come back on their own, but i was wondering if there was anything i could do to help the process?
when my peppermint took his first bite of mushroom, he was doomed. these guys got away with eating a couple of polyps just cause they're so sexy. the world isn't a fair place!
