Shrimps Questions

[BFG]

Aquarius, from my experience, the cherries, tiger, bumblebee will find their own food amongst the moss. It is imperitive that if you want to keep a large number of these sp of shrimp, you need to have a large amount of moss for them to roam about and find food. But you can also give additional food to them if you like. I have been using Hikari's Algae Wafer with good results. It comes in small miniature disc and you need to break it off into smaller piece to give the shrimps more pieces to bite. I don't feed them that often as they find their own food amongst the moss. They also moved about amongst the other plants that I have in the shrimp tank. There are food that they consume that we don't often see.

Hope this helps!

[EXcalibur]

hi aquarius,

Besides letting the shrimps to find their food among the moss, I also feed carrots on a periodic basis to cultivate the redness as well.

[aquarius]

Thanks guys for sharing your experiences!
Hi Excalibur ; did you boil your carrots first b4 feeding your shrimps or you just cut and put inside?
From what i've read up i now have a better understanding why people tend to keep their more expensive and beautiful shrimps in a "special" shrimp tank cos it appears that it's quite a challenge to keep and have them thrive in a Hi-tech planted tank due to all the complexcity involved like fertilisation, kh, Co2 etc etc.

Would like to know if anybody has kept tiger, bumbubble bee, CRS etc in a hi-tech 3ft or bigger planted tank? What are the difficulties that you faced making them thrive?

[Justikanz]

The fish!!... In such tanks, usually the fish either comes first or the fish entered the tank first... And they attack the smaller shrimps when they are introduced into the tank and they also tend to eat most of the food... My cherries either are all wiped out or are in hiding as I had NEVER seen them since the day I placed them in my 4 footer...

[aquarius]

Bought 20 pcs of tiger and 20 pcs of cherry shrimp recently. A few from each of the species has since died. My tank has some hair algae and i've not seen them eating it. As for the brown algae on the nanas... they only eat a bit. My observation is that they are not good algae eaters unlike the yamatos which would have cleared all the algae by now. I've also noticed that the two species are very shy cos most of them can be seen hiding behind a piece of moss covered Driftwood which i placed standing upright where it is dark.