I have a brittle starfish, a couple peppermint shrimp, and some emerald/ruby crabs. I was wondering if regular shrimp like what people eat is ok to feed them, or if i need to get something else. I am also getting a long tentacle plate coral and a bubble coral in a couple days, and was wondering if and what I need to feed them, or is the light and flow good enough for them to feed off.
Feeding.
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Do you have any fish in the tank? If so, you'll want to feed a good quality frozen food. Preferably a mix of Mysis, blood worms, cyclops, or Rotifers.
If not, then a quality pellet ( which I normally would advise against ) would be better.
If not, then a quality pellet ( which I normally would advise against ) would be better.
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And you would be right. BUT, you don't want to go throwing a jumbo table shrimp in your tank for a hermit to carry behind the rock to rot. The frozen foods I recommended would be mostly wasted in a tank with no fish. Which is why I recommended a small pellet type food. You can better balance whats fed and what is actually eaten.
i didn't do a whole shrimp today. I cut up small pieces and dangled it in front of all of the various inverts until they feed. and if they seemed still hungry i did more, but i didn't do but chunks and let them sit. Everything was eating the food, I wanted to make sure it was good enough to be feeding them. I went to the shrimp because I started with flake, and then pellet, but none of it was getting eaten, except for by the hermit crabs. It has been a couple days so I wanted to make sure they were eating something other than a little algae here and there.
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Flake food is really bad for your tank and not very good for your fish at all.
Pellets are only marginally better.
Cutting up a frozen table shrimp is fine. That's very nutritious. If you want to maximize nutrition, though, you should look into some other types of food. Variety is important in a marine environment.
Pellets are only marginally better.
Cutting up a frozen table shrimp is fine. That's very nutritious. If you want to maximize nutrition, though, you should look into some other types of food. Variety is important in a marine environment.
