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Hello folks, It's me again. I have a tank with Taiwan bees for a month now, etc etc. Because it spent so much time cycling, there was a lot of biofilm built up. This whole time, the shrimp have been living off of just the biofilm / algae and one IAL (barely eaten) and one square inch of boiled mulberry leaf (eaten after 1 week). When I tried to give pellet shrimp food, they mostly ignored it, until last night when I left just two small chunks in and it finally got eaten after a few hours. There are only 10 small shrimp in 6 gallons, so maybe the biofilm can grow faster than they can eat it? The majority of time, I can see the shrimp grazing. Of the three (different) pieces of driftwood, the pacific driftwood has been thoroughly picked clean, but the malaysian driftwood untouched. They'll graze the substrate in the section with S. repens but not the same substrate with the DHG. (Not sure why they don't like all of them equally?) If I also add Bacter AE occasionally, will the shrimp need pellet shrimp food supplementation? It would be nice to run a tank where I only occasionally drop something in and don't have to do the thing of preparing a feeding dish and removing it after a few hours to avoid water pollution. If everything goes well, then in a few months I'll have more shrimp and maybe I'll have to ask this again.

Yep they dont eat it directly it dissolves into the water.Food for bacteria hence indirectly for shrimp.

As far as I am aware the BacterAE helps the biofilm grow, which the shrimp then eat but I didn't think the shrimp eat the BacterAE direct, though I could be wrong, the shrimps do get excited when you add the BacterAE? Simon

Dont they eat biofilm?Biofilm=food?

There are too little shrimps.Can get by without feeding actually.If they are hungry they will rush to the food and fight over it(natural).U have enough biofilm from the decaying wood and mulberry leaves.I believe biofilm contains many types of bacteria which should be enough especially for now.

They might live on biofilm alone, but it's good to supplement their diet with variety.

It looks like scutariella, but I can't tell from the videos if they easily detach and re-attach.

It is. Anubias and bucephalandra can be imported, plants & seeds, as long as you get the permit to do so