Answer=no. I love feeding my bluegill and Ctenopoma ghost shrimp, and im shure they love it 2 haha.
Is it wrong to feed ghost shrimp to fish?
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In a month or so I am going to start keeping brine shrimp around in the 1g tank my betta is currently in (finally switching tomorrow!). Then I can feed my fish live food as part of their diet. Hopefully I can do it when they are small bc they are more nutritional then.
you want to feed bbs if you want some nutrition the adults dont have much of anything going on nutrition wise.
I think you may have been the one to tell me this in the first place.
Anyway, back to ghost shrimp.
because thats my opinion not everyone elses. But yea I get what you mean. Poor little things all I hear is *Wack* *Crunch*. The bluegill enhaling super quickly is the wack sound. Its like a small vacuum. and the cruch is the exoskeleton of the shrimp being crushed by the Pharyngeal teeth.
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Meh, they are mostly sold as feeder shrimp anyway. In nature they would probably have the same fate anyway.
^yeah there are many types of shrimp that are fed on. And well my predatory fish get a kick outta huntin them.
A common misconception that should stop being spread. The chitin which composes the "nutritionally worhless" shell is a good source of protein to those creatures like fish that can metabolize it and is very important factor in the fin development of fish.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/...35:EODISO>2.0.CO;2?journalCode=unaj20#preview
You may not be able to get the whole article, but it's in there.