favorite shrimp foods

[john]

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum and think you have a really great site going here. What type of food do your shrimp really go crazy for? I have some cherry reds in a tank set up just for them and I'm still trying different foods to see what they like the most. So can people give some ideas of foods that their shrimp really seem to love more than any other foods? Thanks,
John

[silane]

John,

You can take a look at this thread:
http://www.shrimpnow.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8

Healthy shrimps basically eat everything they can pick up. It is better to give an array of food rather just their favorites.

[Walter]

yup.. for any living thing it is always better to feed a variety of food.. just like humans too :D although i still fail to boil carrots for my shrimps weekly... :D''' will do soon.

[Talonstorm]

My shrimp (amano and cherry reds) go crazy for cooked zucchini. :rolleyes:

Tina

[ralp]

Hi,

the favourite food for my Cherries is the stuff that is in the filter from my fishtank. When i clean and squeeze the filter - i always spare some of the stuff...

Regards. Ralp

[janazr]

My shrimps love frozen bloodworms and algae wafers.


Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum and think you have a really great site going here. What type of food do your shrimp really go crazy for? I have some cherry reds in a tank set up just for them and I'm still trying different foods to see what they like the most. So can people give some ideas of foods that their shrimp really seem to love more than any other foods? Thanks,
John

[Ljung]

read that some feed with boiled carrot.
but all my shrimps dont bother to give much interest.
any suggestion?

[simcb]

read that some feed with boiled carrot.
but all my shrimps dont bother to give much interest.
any suggestion?

Not necssary must feed carrots.... try high iron veg like boiled spinach will have the same effect.

[ralp]

Hi,

maybe not necessary but funny to experiment with different food. In a german shrimpforum they recommend unboild spaghetti. Just put it down into the gravel. My Cherry-shrimps like it.

Regards. Ralp

[dkk08]

Hi,

maybe not necessary but funny to experiment with different food. In a german shrimpforum they recommend unboild spaghetti. Just put it down into the gravel. My Cherry-shrimps like it.

Regards. Ralp

just a question, wouldn't the unboiled spaghetti make the water oily?

[ralp]

Hi dkk08,

not oily - unless you don´t choose to drop some olivoil together with the spaghetti ;)

Seriously - i have just 6 shrimps so they don´t eat very much. After one day i take the pasta out of the water and this is just a small piece of spaghetti. I feed this only the day before the regulary waterchange. Look at some pictures of the original thread: aquarienforum_de/forum/showthread_php?t=22407&page=3 (scroll down). Test it by yourself and post the result :)

Regards. Ralp

P.S.: Is it not allowed to post U R L or is it just stupid me?

[gigahertz]

Well my shrimps prefer Pasta a la clam and with lots of aged parmesan cheese! :joking:

[simcb]

Hi,

maybe not necessary but funny to experiment with different food. In a german shrimpforum they recommend unboild spaghetti. Just put it down into the gravel. My Cherry-shrimps like it.

Regards. Ralp

I guess spaghetti is more like junk food to the shrimp as it contains mainly carbohydrates :p thats good if you are try to fatten them up ..... thanks for sharing ... so far my cherry shrimps loves

1. hikirai crab food best(has almost all essential mineral (good for moulting))
(I realised that sexual activity is higher if u feed the crab food more often(crab food is viagra? lol )) No more shrimps died from incomplete moulting ever!!! yes!!

2. boiled spinach(iron)

3. hikirai algae wafer(mainly protein) ).

So far 10 females pregnant and 3 with eggs. (they are all 3 months old juveniles only )

[Walter]

haha interesting... sphagetti... how is the nutrition like?