Hey, just got my first batch of cherries, and I was wondering about feeding them. I have them in a 5 gallon with a small school of neons and a buttload of MTS and ramshorns. I'm not too worried about them finding food, but for the little treat here and then, would algae wafers be better, and would giving them shrimp pellets (wait for it) be in bad taste?
feeding red cherry shrimp
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they love shrimp pellets,.. and aglea wafers
but they really like bio film, and no see ums in the tanks,.. they will be fine just give something now and again for them,.. they find it quick and arn't shy about taking it off of mts,..
Get frozen bulk spinach from your grocery store. When it is frozen smash it up with a hammer into tiny bits. Give them some of this every now and then they go nuts for it! Snello also works. I also feed calcium supplements (without vitamin d). Hikari i think sells special shrimp bites for inverts, i have used those and they love them as well!
they'll eat most anything.
I feed mine, spirulina wafers, shrimp pellets, crab bites, and Veggie & Calcium sticks from Kensfish.com
having only a few shrimp though, I wouldn't feed them every day, maybe every 2 days or so..
I feed mine, spirulina wafers, shrimp pellets, crab bites, and Veggie & Calcium sticks from Kensfish.com
having only a few shrimp though, I wouldn't feed them every day, maybe every 2 days or so..
Yeah, I put mine in monday and dropped in a chunk of algae wafer. Within minutes, that 1/4 of a wafer was a golfball size glob of ramshorns and MTS, with no room left for the shrimp. They were mailed to me, so they are all still teeny-tiny. I do catch them grazing on the sponge I redneck engineered to put on my filter intake a lot.
I feed mine Hikari Algae wafers and blanched zuchinni, and they swarm all over it in a matter or seconds.
question: why is it that zucchini is the preferred vegetable for RCS? do they not like other green veggies, or is there a specific reason for the zuke? i've been wondering this for a while now...
I feed mine algae wafers, green beans, zucchini, lettuce they aren't too picky. I even started putting a little ocean nutrition formula 2 frozen food in there that is for my saltwater algae grazers lol.
Because zucchini is only suitable for human consumption when made into chocolate zucchini cake with chocolate chips. :Angel:
Zucchini cookies are even better!
I feed my RCS every type of fishfood I have. Crab pellets, shrimp pellets, shrimp pellets w/ calcium, BBSE, Ken's Cichlid Supreme Flake, Ken's flake with nutrarose, veggie wafers, algae wafers . . . They are not overly picky and neither are my spixi's and other snails.