How often do you feed there shrimp?

[Loach]

Hi guys,

Was just wondering how often and how much you feed your shrimp. Also, can you please state the tank size, food given and a rough number of shrimp in the tank.

[lachie1998]

30cm cube

15 crs/cbs

15-20 red cherrys

i feed twise a week with hikari shrimp cusine at about a little pinch.

In future i would like to try some other foods like benibachi and shiraku.

[JPN07]

It all depends on how many shrimps you have in your tank and feed accordingly. For example, i have one standard 2 ft tank with only about 10-15 Crs and i feed them once every two days (small amount). I also have another tank (2.5x18x18) full of adults, juvies and shrimplets; i feed them once a day. i use boneo wild, shirakura, ebita and benibachi foods. My shrimps go nuts for shirakura.

[Sprae]

23L nano

35-40 shrimps of all ages. Mainly CRS with CBS, RCS, DRN, DAS

I feed every 3 days with kale tablets, hikari shrimp cuisine, spinach and special treats. I have plenty of moss, IALs, algae in the tank for them graze on. Also only clean my pre-filter sponges every 2-3 weeks

[Loach]

Thanks for the replies everyone! Keep them coming lol.

[doctr-dan]

30cm cube

About 30-40 crs, cbs

Half a kale tablet or shikura wafer, or 3-4 sera shrimp cusine pellets

Wednesday and sunday

[Sanoptic]

30 litre

About 20 RCS

Feed them every day morning & night with small pinch hikari shrimp cuisine.

[619torrey]

I feed mine whenever I feel like I have too :) I feed biomax

[Ace027]

I feed mine once a day, I have 6 2x1x1 tanks and feed them hikari, sera, biomax, red bee shrimp and IAL.

Ace

[Triggs]

20L nano, A dozen Cherries or so.

Feed them once a day and skip every third day. I feed them 1 mini wafer or 1 granule per 2 shrimp.

I feed them a mixture of; Hikari Mini algae wafers, Hikari sinking wafers, and my secret food Tetra colour sinking gold fish granules (Ingredients list sounded good on it)

[NoGi]

4' x 2' x 1.5' tank with US Fissden and some strato. Also have 2 small squares off rose and bushy moss. I feed when I remember could be weekly could be twice a week. I have an IAL in there and daily food drops for fish so plenty of food for the shrimp anyway.

[lin]

i feed mine a little everyday

[lostartz]

It was recently pointed out to me that I was well over feeding. In fact I had about 15 shrimp in a 2 foot tank, and was leaving a pice of random food such as azoo, shikira, ebita in there for them to eat. What I noticed is over 3 days the food would go moldy and seemed quite untouched, lucky i was using a feeding dish. It was suggest to me that there was plenty of food for my shrimp to eat in the tank and that was a reason why the foods were largely untouched. I did some further reading of overseas forums and found that if food was left uneaten by the time you turn off the lights that food should be removed. Iv stopped feeding my shrimp now, just got some ial in there for them to graze. I will try spinach as a main source of food, thanks for the heads up dean.

[jacet]

good thread mate.... i was looking for some sort of guide as i really dont know how much and how often to feed.... I am feeding every day except fridays with a 3 different foods and mullberry leaf and other green veg.....

[planted]

since putting all my shrimps in the one tank around 4ft "400ltrs" approx 250-300 CRS/CBS iv'e been feeding shirakura wafers every 2-3 days, approx 8-10 wafers at a time and all gone the next morning.

then feeding shirakura micro powder once to twice a week in between that and also adding shirakura mineral powder after water changes every 2 weeks or so.

tried feeding Biomax too but they go no wear near as crazy for it as they do the shirakura wafers...