Do Crystal Red or Cherry Shrimps Eat Riccia?

[yeoyl87]

Does CRS or Cherry Shrimps eat riccia?

[chingkt]

Dont think so. my riccia is growing very well with cherry around.

[Hong]

They just feed on the micro-organism on the plant.
Kept riccia and alot of cherry shrimp together before in a 2footer, the riccia are blooming nicely.
No worries about the shrimps feeding on them.

[Shadow]

don't think so, I don't think cherry/CRS strong enough to cut/chew riccia

[Matt]

I was told that Shrimps are scavengers, they only eat rotten or decomposed matter. so probably dun eat Riccia but they do pick on Micro-Organisms as pointed out by Hong.

[yeoyl87]

do crs or cheery feeds on hair algae?

[Anthen]

they don't eat green hair algae but yamatoes do.. i do have green hair algae in my tank and i manually pull out the hair algae instead of using yamatoes.. after reducing co2 and reduce light duration from 15hrs to 12hrs, hair algae stops..