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Hi all

 Has anyone tried feeding Maxisoy to their shrimp ?

It's a pellet made from soybean hulls and breaks up like snow. I feed it to Bristlenose and cherries they seem to like it

Interested to see if anyone else has heard of it or tried it

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Never heard of Maxisoy. So I did a search on it and by far the majority of results show that this is Equine feed or horse pellet food.

 

Shrimps are opportunistic feeders, they will eat anything.

 

Got pic of the pellets, and a pic of it in the tank?

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I haven't used maxisoy pellets but I have looked at them before. They contain 8ppm Copper. I don't know what the Copper content in the Hikari shrimp food is but there seems to be a consensus that it's a safe level - perhaps someone here knows whether it's above or below 8ppm (mg/L). 

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I haven't used the horse pellet version but have heard on Facebook that someone is using them successfully and breaks down just like snow.. It only comes in large bags though.

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My shrimp are crazy for snow flake food... Both cherries and tb

Yep. Shrimpies love sugary sweets. Snowflake is pretty sweet for their pallet so they tend to swarm. I like the way snowflake breaks down into chunks so both babies and adults can feed. [emoji1]
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Shrimpy Daddy Shrimp Lover

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Be careful with feeding soy bean hull. Soy bean hull contains significant amount of protein, just like soy bean itself.

 

Protein takes much longer time to breakdown and if you over feed them, it may pollute your water.

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Sprae Shrimp Breeder

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I thought snow food are used as leave in food. If it takes longer to breakdown it's less like to pollute the water. May be I'm confused?

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I thought snow food are used as leave in food. If it takes longer to breakdown it's less like to pollute the water. May be I'm confused?

im with you sprae... Doesnt make since to me.., but i am just a simple country boy lol!
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Shrimpy Daddy Shrimp Lover

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I thought snow food are used as leave in food. If it takes longer to breakdown it's less like to pollute the water. May be I'm confused?

 

It is a pellet and it will bust into fragment after contacting water. Hence, you can remove them. As such, it is marketed as leave in food.

 

However, if you left too much unconsumed fragment in the water for too long, it will pollute the water just like your shrimp wafer.

 

Like what jayc mentioned, don't feed it too frequent and, not too much at a time.

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However, if you left too much unconsumed fragment in the water for too long, it will pollute the water just like your shrimp wafer.

 

Like what jayc mentioned, don't feed it too frequent and, not too much at a time.

 

Thanks for the info. So how long is too long for leave in food like soy hulls? A day or 2 before you take it out?

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It really depending on many aspects.

 

A well designed leave-in food should be one of the following:

  1. Powdery enough to slowly flow down the substrate for feeding the microbes or critters
  2. It is in tiny pieces that you could control the dosage accordingly. This will attract microbes and zooplankton and, the shrimp will consume them. The food should disintegrate within a few days and goes into the substrate. If the food does not disintegrate, it should not contain substances that is hard to be broken down by microbes; this is to prevent pollution of water. 

For the soy hull, it supposed to fall under type 2. But the problem is that it is in pellet form and you can't dose accordingly. If your tank has hundreds of shrimps, this may not be a problem; the shrimps should consume them within 2 to 3 days.  However if your shrimps can't consume them soon enough, it will pose potential pollution problem.

 

IMO. If there are plenty of them left over after 2 to 3 days, you should suck out as much as possible and leave just a couple of pieces in the tank to feed the microbes.

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