List of Shrimps Food

[simcb]

Sharing a list of how i feed my shrimps(got idea from many websites):

Cherry : Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber

CRS: Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber, spinach and carrot

Yamato: Hikirai Algae Waffers

Care to share what u feed yours?

[silane]

Thank for the list. I add on:


Cherry : Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber, Hikirai Crab cuisine

CRS/Diamond: Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber, spinach and carrot, Hikirai Crab cuisine, Special CRS food that is developed to promote proper moulting.

Before using the Special CRS food, I used to feed all my shrimps with Cichlid Food at times to battle incomplete moulting problem. Cichlid needs high level of Iodine.

[Robert]

Hi,
my shrimps get all the same food, so this list show the food for all of them:

thin raw cucumber slices (I don't cook it, they eat the soft tissue around the seeds also in raw cucumber slices).
special protein-rich pellet foods for guppies
cyclop-eeze in small portions once a week
frozen artemia
normal flake food
soft kinds of algae if I have some (normally there are no algae at all in the shrimp tanks)
other kinds of frozen food like frozen cyclops, daphnia etc. but they don't like it that much in my experience

BTW, I heard that dried stinging nettle (it's a common weed here in Europe) should be a good food to enhance the coloration of the shrimps and also of crayfish. At the moment there is too much snow to find any but I'll test it when the winter is gone.

best regards

Robert

[silane]

Read that cyclop are packed with vitamins and mineral, I tried to feed my shrimps with dried cyclop, but cyclop float around, I gave up on them.

[crandf]

You can try making your dried cyclops into agar cubes or ice cubes. not sure what happens to its nutritional content after freezing or heating though.

[Ljung]

Thank for the list. I add on:

CRS/Diamond: Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber, spinach and carrot, Hikirai Crab cuisine, Special CRS food that is developed to promote proper moulting.



what actually is the "Special CRS food"?
one of those Japanese brand?

[silane]

yeah, that's right.

[Walter]

is it ok to feed mainly on hikira algae wafers? :)

[Jake]

I feed my shrimp HBH crab and lobster bites, sometimes Omega One veggie flakes, an algae disc here and there. Mostly I feed them some homemade food with added vitamins though : My recipe (http://www.plantgeek.net/article_viewer.php?id=18)

[silane]

Walter,
Hikira algae wafers contains mainly material with animal origin and less on greens. Since their nature diet is mainly alage, it is good to supplement them with boiled vegetable. Make sure that the vegetable has not pesticide.


Jake,
Welcome.

Does the leftover of your recipe turn mouldy after 24hours? My shrimp do not touch mouldy food even though they are scavengers.

[Jake]

Leftovers? What's that? :razz:

Seriously though, I don't have leftovers. I break off a little bit, drop it in the tank.. the shrimp swarm on it and it's gone. I've never had it last long enough to mold or fungus.

[simcb]

One thing i notice with homemade food is that it fouls the water very fast. Especially shrimp tanks....they are messy eaters.... water change weekly is a must in this case .....

[Walter]

Walter,
Hikira algae wafers contains mainly material with animal origin and less on greens. Since their nature diet is mainly alage, it is good to supplement them with boiled vegetable. Make sure that the vegetable has not pesticide.


Jake,
Welcome.

Does the leftover of your recipe turn mouldy after 24hours? My shrimp do not touch mouldy food even though they are scavengers.

icic... okie then... i guess i have to feed boiled carrots and cucumbers, thanks :)

[silane]

I was told that shrimps like dandelion very much, not sure if it is the type that can be found locally. Has anyone tried or dare to try? :D

[janazr]

"Special CRS food", is this available from the LFS? And if yes,
what brand ? Or is this a homemade?

thanks,janazr





Thank for the list. I add on:


Cherry : Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber, Hikirai Crab cuisine

CRS/Diamond: Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber, spinach and carrot, Hikirai Crab cuisine, Special CRS food that is developed to promote proper moulting.

Before using the Special CRS food, I used to feed all my shrimps with Cichlid Food at times to battle incomplete moulting problem. Cichlid needs high level of Iodine in their diet like shrimps.

[ArcheNova]

Arche's Special-Food:

corn, peas, sweet pepper (all out of preserve, squeezed through a sieve) and bunny-food (these little herbage-worms, you know...?!)

- this slurry is the basis for my DIY-food...

additionally:
common fish-food (divers kinds), dried mosquito larvae, everything else you can find that might be good for your shrimps...

... put the slurry into a syringe (without a canula!) and form a "snake" of it on baking paper. Dry it... Ready!

My shrimps love this stuff!

[Lotus]

Lately I have added dried marine algae to the shrimp's diet. They seem to really like it!

I also feed: Spirulina wafers, flake food, Cyclops-eez flake, shrimp pellets and HBH Crab & Lobster bites.

One tip I read recently for zucchini/courgette is to slice it, blanche it (boil for 30 seconds in water), then freeze it on a cookie tray. Then, you can bag them up and always have a fresh slice for them (once you defrost it). It sure beats having a zucchini/courgette moulding in your refrigerator!

[Veneer]

Processed: Tetra TabiMin tablets; Wardley Shrimp Pellets; various generic tropical flakes (Aquarian, Top Fin, Tetra, etc.); TetraFauna gelpack bloodworms; Tetra freeze-dried tubifex; San Francisco Bay Brand freeze-dried krill; Wardley floating turtle sticks; Tetra cichlid pellets

Vegetable matter: blanched spinach & kale; bananas; tomato; sweet potato

Live animal matter: crayfish (Procambarus sp.), guppies, loaches (Schistura sp.), and various indigenous minnows

[rain-]

I give my shrimps (Neocaridina/Caridina 'Ceylanica' (adults) and Neocaridina palmata (adults and babies), soon also others) discus granules, New Life Spectrum granules, shrimp pellets, spirulina tablets, frozen artemia and cyclops, freeze-dried bloodworms, Cyclop-Eeze, regular flakes, blanched spinach, nettle, sweet pepper, peas, green beans and my self made food (tofu, green beans, peas, sweet pepper, parsley, spinach, rye bran, rice, garlic powder, eggs, calcium supplement and vitamines blent all together in a blender to a solid mush and frozen, doesn't spoil the water when you feed only the amount that gets eaten within an hour or so) meant for apple snails, but all my other creatures love it too. They seem to enjoy everything I offer :)

[BSK]

So far i only feed them hikari algae wafers.
I break them into smaller bits and distribute over the entire tank so they
can have different buffet areas for the 100+ shrimps.

I have malaysians, greens and yamatos shrimps.

[diki]

Just wondering if any of u feed your shrimps with the food for the turtles? Is it recommended? Actually that is what I doing now... :D I was thinking since turtle have shell, shrimps also have shell, is it suitable for them? Since the food always float, I need to soak for a while, squeeze out the bubbles before they can sink.

[simcb]

Just wondering if any of u feed your shrimps with the food for the turtles? Is it recommended? Actually that is what I doing now... :D I was thinking since turtle have shell, shrimps also have shell, is it suitable for them? Since the food always float, I need to soak for a while, squeeze out the bubbles before they can sink.

Hi diki,

I never tried turtle feeds before. Of course you can feed it to your shrimps if they like it, you can also create a balanced shrimp diet with a mixture of different feeds which would probably keep them happy. :D

[gr81]

Hi,
what are you feeding your shrimps?
I use, defolied artemia, flake(crisp) fish food or tabs for plecos.
All of these have big problem to me. Pieces are too small, or can be easily braked to small peaces and then drop down to gravel.
On some pictures(here) I see shrimps are eating something bigger (often pinkish).
So what are guys feeding your shrimps? What the pinkish "tartie" is? ;)
I found crushed snails useful. Shimps can eat it with no garbage. But my snails slowly disapear and it is probably not best food.

[Annya]

Hi,

I feed mainly pellets for fish living in the bottom area of the tank and crayfish, occasionally banana (my shrimp love banana and it usually attracts the entire tank population). I also tried feeding boiled carrot, but they didn't care about it. Before I fed normal flakes for fish and it worked well.

I wonder if anyone has tried apples? And how is it with spinach? I would like to try, but I'm concerned about the pesticides and fertilisers. Have there been any confirmed casualties in your tanks after experimenting with apples or spinach?

PS. There is entire thread about feeding shrimps. Just search the archives!

[milalic]

Hi,
what are you feeding your shrimps?
I use, defolied artemia, flake(crisp) fish food or tabs for plecos.
All of these have big problem to me. Pieces are too small, or can be easily braked to small peaces and then drop down to gravel.
On some pictures(here) I see shrimps are eating something bigger (often pinkish).
So what are guys feeding your shrimps? What the pinkish "tartie" is? ;)
I found crushed snails useful. Shimps can eat it with no garbage. But my snails slowly disapear and it is probably not best food.


Hi...I feed mine

- HBH crab and lobster bites
- Sinking alage wafers
- Spirulina tablets
- Vegetables
- High protein cookies bought on aquabid

Cheers,
Pedro

[Beviking]

I feed Tetramin flakes and granules, algae wafers, bottom feeder tablets, spinach, cucumber, zucchini, frozen blood worms and brine shrimp, and home made pumpkin/spinach treats. My gravel is pretty small plus the snails take care of leftovers (if there are any).

[silane]

Has anyone feed shrimps with carrot? I heard that it improve color of CRS, I wonder is it a fact or a myth.

[milalic]

Has anyone feed shrimps with carrot? I heard that it improve color of CRS, I wonder is it a fact or a myth.


I give them carrots. Still see the same color.

[Nickel]

Has anyone feed shrimps with carrot? I heard that it improve color of CRS, I wonder is it a fact or a myth.


I feed them with carrots occassionally. To see effect, they have to eat a lot of carrots raw carrots constantly to get the orangey pigment into them. Same for humans.

Since we boiled it till soft (which can be quite long boiling), I think it actually do not have any effect, including Vitamins in the carrot, no matter how much they eat.

My shrimps look still the same after eating carrots. However, I noticed if the substrate or background is dark coloured, the schrimps' colour become more intense. I observed that in my shrimps. I may be worng here. Anyone has same observation too ? (sorry a bit off topic as thread is on shrimp food :D )

[YuccaPatrol]

I bought a small can of Omega One Veggie Rounds before reading this thread.

Ingredients: Whole Kelp, Spirulina, Whole Salmon, Cod, Whole Herring, Seafood Mix (including krill, rocksfish, squid, clams, salmon eggs, and octopus) , wheat flour, lecithin, astaxanthin, L-Ascorbyl-2-Phosphate (vitamin C source), natural and Artificial Colors, Vitamin A Acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, Vitamin E supplement, Vitamin B12 supplement, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, folic Acid, biotin, Inositol, Tocopherol (Preservative), Ethoxyquin (preservative).

Protein 34%
Fat 8%
Fiber 6%
Moisture 8.5%
Ash 15%
Phosphorus (0.5%)
Omega 3 2%
Omega 6 1%

It looks pretty good. I can't figure out why they would need to put artificial colors in a sinking wafer that would probably still be brown all by itself.

No copper in it at all and kelp and spirulina are the first two main ingredients.

What do people here think of this food? Does anyone use it?

[Herbie]

Hikari Crab Cuisine and Algae Wafers, occasionally Omega 1 flake food. That's about all...no DIY concoctions :)

[TheTeh]

For my Tigers and Cherries, I feed them once daily (rotating) with minute amount:
British King catfish pellets, Tetra Pro Color and Vegetable crips, Hikari algae wafer, Hikari Catfish sinking wafer, hikari crab cuisine, Hikari Lionhead pellets.

This is the order of their liking. They absolutely love the BK catfish pellets and the Tetra Pro crips!

[zyblack]

Erm..does anyone here feed spirulina tabs to their cherries? My cherries devour it fast and I noticed a couple of them are turning bright red. Wonder if the tabs has anything to do with it? :huh:

[YuccaPatrol]

I feed OSI veggie wafers which are made mostly of kelp and spirulina.

I have also recently found a food which is finely chopped and dried seaweed which they love.

[kuni]

Generally to say, protain based food is good for breeding, and plant based food is good to improve color. In Japan, many breeders have own tips in this ballance.

[silane]

Generally to say, protain based food is good for breeding, and plant based food is good to improve color. In Japan, many breeders have own tips in this ballance.


I ever seen a hobbyist's tank, he feed 100% frozen blood worms, his CRS are big and almost all the females are bellied with tons of eggs, maybe that explain why high protein food is good for breeding.

[cheetf]

Was told blood worms not so healthy for the CRS. Is that true? Anyway mine were not interested the last time I tried it.

[silane]

Mine was on the contract, they like frozen bloodworms most. Once feed them with bloodworms, they will ignore other type of food.

Not too sure if frozen bloodworm is not healthy, understand that a number of members are feeding their shrimp/CRS with frozen bloodworms.

[Aqua Essentials]

It's quite amazing how advanced you guys are in terms of what you actually feed your shrimp. Over in the UK shrimp knowledge is on the whole, quite sparse and most people feed their shrimp only algae that grows in their tank etc. I suspect this is the reason why it's uncommon to have breeding shrimp over here.

I am very interested in this special CRS food - does anyone know where I could get some from?

Richard

[richietay]

Guys, i bought the wrong stuffs-Nutrafin Spirulina algae flakes instead of the tablets type.
Suppose is the same, any comments??

Fed it to my cherry shrimps and they love it, the flakes look kind like boiled spinach, piece by piece.

[Shadow]

Does the spirulina algae flakes sink to the bottom?

[ahdex]

Do youu mean the algea wafer? If yes, they do.

[Shadow]

I mean the "Nutrafin Spirulina algae flakes" that richietay said.

[richietay]

Shadow, the flakes do sink.

[fatboy]

At the moment I have cherry reds, amano and tiger shrimp, along with one lonely Aegla (the rest dies) and various filter feeders. Since they're all in the same tank they eat the same things:

Hikari crab pellets - they ALL love these
Tetra colour pro crisps - always popular but I don't see an improvement in colour
frozen bloodworm - amanos especially like these and eat live ones too
frozen squid - shrimp ignore this
frozen daphnia - usually ignored
small catfish pellets - can't remember what type. they're tiny ones.

They still spend most of their time grazing plants and the huge filter sponge I have. The filter sponge seems to be a great source of food - they all love it. It's only hikari pellets that bring them all down from the trees for a feast.


For a while hikari was not imported as all japanese pet foods were restricted in the EU. I tried Tetra Variety Wafers and nothing ate those, not even the amanos and I've seen them eat poo out of each others bottoms, the dirty beasts. Thank god hikari are imported again, they're my favourite food..

I've got a macrobrachium rosenbergii and he eats anything meaty - frozen krill/bloodworm/squid, live snails (I breed them in a bucket), any flake food etc. It also ate 2 mollies I put in with it to see if it was a killer. :(

[gabeszone247]

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j33/Gabeszone/ShirakuraDSC01202.jpg
Heres a picture of the food I feed my shrimps, the name is Shirakura. It's mainly made from seaweed and my CRS and Cherry go nuts for it. At first my CRS wouldn't touch it but after a few days they loved it!

[Shrimper06]

Hikari crab pellets - they ALL love these
Tetra colour pro crisps - always popular but I don't see an improvement in colour
frozen bloodworm - amanos especially like these and eat live ones too
frozen squid - shrimp ignore this
frozen daphnia - usually ignored
small catfish pellets - can't remember what type. they're tiny ones.

They still spend most of their time grazing plants and the huge filter sponge I have. The filter sponge seems to be a great source of food - they all love it. It's only hikari pellets that bring them all down from the trees for a feast.


For a while hikari was not imported as all japanese pet foods were restricted in the EU. I tried Tetra Variety Wafers and nothing ate those, not even the amanos and I've seen them eat poo out of each others bottoms, the dirty beasts. Thank god hikari are imported again, they're my favourite food..




Thanks for sharing:) This is very helpful!

[silane]

Hi Gabe,

I am wandering why seaweed has became the main ingridient for CRS food, why is seaweed used?

[silane]

Hi fatboy,

Have you try Hikari Algae Wafer? It is a popular shrimp food in Singapore.

[Adam]

Hi everyone,

I've been a member here for a while now but this is my first post. Up until now I didn't think that I had anything worthwhile to add as I am very new to the hobby.

I have tried a lot of different foods with my RCS, here's a list of what they get offered:

Hikari Crab Cuisine.
Hikari Carnivore Tablets.
Hikari Algae wafers.
Tetra Pro colour crisps.
Tetramin Tropical Flakes.
Tetra Prima Discus.
Interpet Tropical fish flakes.
Interpet Adhesive Tablets.
JBL Novo Plecochips.
JMC catfish pellets. 48% protein
JMC high protein fish food. 54% protein.
Cyclop-eeze. 57% protein
ZM Catfish pellets. 55% protein
ZM Discus granules. 55% protein
ZM 400(granular fry food) 60% protein.
TMC frozen seaweed.
TMC frozen blood worm.
Sanfrancisco Bay brand frozen baby brineshrimp.


I pretty much feed the shrimp what I give my fish and I like to vary their diet.
I made the mistake of feeding them frozen blood worms two days in a row one time and I had a job to get them back onto the dry feeds. I don't feed the high protein feeds a lot for fear of polluting their tank, their diet cosists mainly of algae wafers. High protein feeds are fed at two/three day intervals. I haven't noticed a marked improvement in colour with any particular feed.

Great forum by the way. ;)

Adam

[Shrimper06]

What a variety your shrimp get! You probably have a lot of baby shrimp with all that feeding. Thank you for sharing:)

[gabeszone247]

I have no idea why is seaweed a good food but the Japanese seem to think its good for CRS and also good for people too. Im sure theres more than just seaweed in the food. I dont see spinach growing in any creeks either lol

[wifi]

I have tried a lot of different foods with my RCS, here's a list of what they get offered:

Hikari Crab Cuisine.
Hikari Carnivore Tablets.
Hikari Algae wafers.
Tetra Pro colour crisps.
Tetramin Tropical Flakes.
Tetra Prima Discus.
Interpet Tropical fish flakes.
Interpet Adhesive Tablets.
JBL Novo Plecochips.
JMC catfish pellets. 48% protein
JMC high protein fish food. 54% protein.
Cyclop-eeze. 57% protein
ZM Catfish pellets. 55% protein
ZM Discus granules. 55% protein
ZM 400(granular fry food) 60% protein.
TMC frozen seaweed.
TMC frozen blood worm.
Sanfrancisco Bay brand frozen baby brineshrimp.


Hi Adam,

Welcome to the forum.

How do you prevent the food from turning bad as your know, shrimps eat little and a pack can last for long time.

[fatboy]

Hi fatboy,

Have you try Hikari Algae Wafer? It is a popular shrimp food in Singapore.

I've tried these and they never get eaten. I usually use a small piece so it's easier to tell if small shrimp have tried it and I've never noticed shrimp eating it.

I have lots of natural algae in my tank and don't get rid of it because the shrimp like it. Perhaps that's why they don't eat algae wafers?

[Adam]

Srimper06, my fish get a varied diet so I figured why treat the shrimp any differently. Unfortunately no babies yet but I have only just started and for a while I was losing shrimp like crazy until I figured out why. Hopefully they will get down to business soon. ;)

Wifi, good point about the food going off. All the food listed apart from the crab cusine is primarily to feed my fish. I have five other tanks, not including the shrimp tank, full of hungry mouths to feed. Fish food doesn't last long at my place. :)

Adam

[NULL]

I was told that shrimps like dandelion very much, not sure if it is the type that can be found locally. Has anyone tried or dare to try? :D
Dandelion is a hated weed here which often are feed to rabbits, so I wouldn't be suprised if some are using it more out of economical than nutritional reasons.

[i_Snail]

Dandelion is a hated weed here which often are feed to rabbits, so I wouldn't be suprised if some are using it more out of economical than nutritional reasons.

My Amanos loved boiled Dandelions (as much as Spinach) the first time I dropped them in and I have yet to try it on my cherries. Not sure about nutritional values of Dandelions but at least I know they are chemical free from my front lawn :D

A big Hello to everyone from a newbie by the way :happy2: Cool forum :2thumbsup

[MyShrimps]

Hello,

dandelion might be a valuable food for shrimps.
For example it contains carotinoides. Not as much as Spirulina, but dandelion is cheaper than Spirulina, too. ;)

I feed my shrimps boiled dandelion leaves quite regularly. They don't like it as much as boiled stinging nettle but they eat it.
But they only eat it boiled, not raw.

Besides, dandelion is healthy even for humans. For example you can make a salad of the fresh (not boiled) dandelion leaves. Well, I have to admit, the taste is a bit strange. But spinach tastes strange, too. At least for me. :p

Peter

[natsuboku]

I'm feeding my CRS with those specially made for CRS by Hikari brand. But none of my CRS eats them. Was wondering why.. cause it has been 3 weeks since i got them and they are still picking food from moss n my ADA gravel :undecided

[MyShrimps]

Hi natsuboku,

that seems to be quite usual when the shrimps are new in a tank.
As long as they find enough natural food they prefer to eat that and don't eat much of the artificial food one feeds them. Don't worry, that natural food, like algae for example, is very healthy for the shrimps.
Later they also eat other food.
At least that's my own experience with my shrimps.

Peter

[natsuboku]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your information, will wait awhile more and see if they will start eating the food I give. Because they don't seem to grow any bigger since the time i bought them, still arnd 1.3cm :undecided

[maestro]

Has anyone feed shrimps with carrot? I heard that it improve color of CRS, I wonder is it a fact or a myth.

I was wondering if the beta-carotene in carrots would would discolor the 'whites' in CRS? I imagine that it would enhance the 'red' colorations.

[Invader Xan]

I usually feed my shrimp with Hikari Algae Wafers or Hikari Crab cuisine (my rice prawn comes running for them!). Sometimes, I like to treat them to some Tetra Delica jellied bloodworm, too.

Oh, and every now and then, I add some live daphnia to the tank. :) I don't seem to see many cyclops since putting the shrimp into the tank, either. There used to be quite a few when it was newly cycled...

[NULL]

"Waterflees" are great, they eat floating algae, and it's fun to see shrimps chasing them "jumping". =)
When I had CRS, and when the pumps didn't moved the water too much, I had Moina* in it. They are similar in shape to dafnia, but light pink of haemoglobin(and nutritious in some way...).

My Amano are fed on Tropical's shrimpfood and theirs spirulinawafers(so they lay of my moss).

* Daphnia belongs to Family Daphniidae, Moina to Family Moinidae. Both are in the Order Cladocera

[BlackwidowWoman]

:cool: Hi everyone im new here, you all have a fantastic site, im learning many new things.:cheesy:
Im just getting into RCS and cant wait to get some but after my tank has cycled first. Anyways just curious to how many of you use food with Ethoxyquin in it? I dont know if this has been brought up befour or not but Ethoxyquin is a pesticide that has been known to cause serious deadly effects to crabs/both land and water types, crayfish, shrimp and all sorts other animals, it can cause deformities, sickness, color loss, blindness, eating disorders, non breeding probs, failure to thrive and death. Case in point i had probs with foods that was fed to over 75 land hermit crabs that had Ethoxyquin in it and it did cause alot of probs with these crabs, death and deformities, shakes, not eatting right, no will to thrive and blindness let alone awful times molting. After i stoped using foods with this in it i never again had any probs with my colony of LHC's. I know one thing i will never again use any foods for fish or crabs or when i get my new RCS that has any trace or listed amounts of Ethoxyquin. Becareful with what you use totaly investigate all foods that are processed and made for fish or crabs for this ingrediant. Sorry :embarasse didnt mean to sound like a rant i was just tossing this out there incase you all didnt know.;) Time for me to get back to learning all i can about RCS.

BW......

[MyShrimps]

Hi BlackwidowWoman,

I'm sorry to hear about the probs with your crabs, but are you really sure that Ethoxyquin is a danger for shrimps?

I (and many others, too) feed their shrimps Cyclop-eeze.
This Cyclop-eeze is treated with the antioxidant Ethoxyquin.
My shrimps love Cyclop-eeze and luckily I haven't noticed any problems yet.
But now you disconcerted me a bit.

So, could you please tell me the source for your statement that Ethoxyquin is dangerous for shrimps? That would be very interesting.

bye

Peter

[zoo]

and what about HIKARI SHRIMP CUISINE?

[Aabrook]

Hi,
I feed my CRS shirakura minima, hikari crs food and tropical shrimp sticks. Here is on the test report on tropical shrimp sticks which they say could overcome shrimp slough. Cannot post link so i copy and paste the whole report. Hope it helps. Tropical shrimp sticks - Test report

Shrimp sticks is an alone feed for sweetness and salt water shrimps and cancers and also for other crustaceans which are held in an aquarium.

During the production of the feed, respect was spent to water compatibility and on natural claims of the animals. Since February 2006 these are available on the market and were the first alone feed for shrimps and cancers at that time.

Over 5 months we tested the new shrimp and cancer feed of the company Tropical in cooperation with them. We particularly spent a look on the compatibility of the feed and also on the interest of the animals at this.

We always tested at one type of shrimps or cancers that were split up in two groups. That means to split up the basin in two parts with one type of shrimps in every part, left and right. One side was fed with the shrimp sticks and the other side furthermore with usual spirulina feed tablets, granular materials and so on.

Already after the first gift of the sticks, a high acceptance could be observed not only at the shrimps but also at the cancers. The only exception were fan shrimps. Indeed, these came from their caches and diversified the ground after eatable shrimp sticks. Since they are filterer and mainly filter the finest feed particles from the water, quickly dissolving types of feed are better suitable for fan shrimps. This feed has to be scattered on the surface of the water like some powders but also ground tablets, etc.

Even sticks that do not land in the next area of a shrimp or a cancer can be recognized by their sense organs. Then the animals start to move in direction of the feed and take it with their mouth tools without problems.

At full-grown cancers at those again and again slough problems occured, showed a clear drop of losses and less slough problems. The animals showed themselves also more energetic. The scissor strength of the cancers increased clearly and deformations of feelers and scissors that often occured after a slough could hardly be observed after they ate the shrimp sticks.

Especially shrimps with red clays, as Red Cherry shrimps, that need the carotenes for the coloring, showed a faster and more intense coloring. The test group was N. denticulata sinensis var. red.

Shrimp sticks are recommended as main feed for shrimps and cancers very much. The sticks support the slough and the growth. Through their specific composition from a high green food part of 3% spirulin alga and 45% raw proteins, they prevent slough problems, facilitate the lock-out of the old tank and support the formation of a healthy and faster curing tank.

The sticks are 24 hour water stable and do not load the water quality. They consist of carotenes that support the coloring especially of red shrimps and they are accepted not only by cancers but also by shrimps and crabs.

Composition:

High green feed part with at least 3% spirulina alga, mineral materials and protein carriers from shrimps and fish. Corresponds to the food claims of shrimps and cancers.

Content materials:
45% raw protein: responsible for the formation of muscles, bone, blood, tissue. Growth and formation of enzymes.
7,0% raw fat: is used for the energy generation
4,0 % raw fibre: responsible for the regulation of the feed in the colon and guarantees for a good digestion.
10 % raw ash: supply with mineral materials and trace elements.

Additives:

Astaxanthin 80mg/kg is a natural dye (Corotinoid) that is responsible for the red coloring of crustaceans and is extracted industrially from the Haematococcus plvialis alga. Especially interesting is also the fact that astaxanthin has a vitamin like effect and affects the fertility and the immune defense positively throuhg that.

Vitamin A: 29.800 IU/kg. Responsible for the promotion of the growth and the propagation willingness. The immune system and the infection denfense is strengthened.

Vitamin D3: 1.890 IU/kg. Vitamin D increases the resorption of calcium and phosphate from the intestine by having influence in the formation of a calcium binding transportation egg white. Guarantees for an optimal supply and formation of the new tank, what prevents slough problems.

Vitamin E: 100mg/kg Antioxidantie. Leads at lack appearances to troubles in the musculature and in the nervous system.

Vitamin C: 250mg/kg. Strengthening of the immune system. Promotion of the formation of bones and strengthening of the tank at crustaceans

Also this will bring out the red colour of CRS

[exotic]

i feed my shrimps with bloodworm and algae wafers and sometimes small piece of chicken liver...

[FLASHER]

my shrimps love sera spirulina tabs

[PAH1]

Hi,

i feed my shrimps with:

Shirakura,
JBL NovoPrawn
C50 - granulate
dried walnut leaves
dried catapa leaves
boiled spinachi
Cyclop Eeze

regards

Ulf

[april]

no idea if it works on shrimps..but red bell pepper or capsicum its called in oz...gives good red colouring to discus in their food. i havent tried it on shrimp.
anyone else try it? good post..im just getting started on shrimps. so gives me some ideas.
oh..im a newbie to the forum i live in vancouver canada.

[april]

i also read someone uses brown leaves in the tanks for their cherries. i threw a few in to see how it goes. dont see any swarming them yet..most of my shrimps stay on my hydro sponge filter.

[MyShrimps]

Hello,

welcome to the forum!

It usually takes some days until they begin to eat the brown leaves and it can take several weeks until they are eaten completely.
What kind of leaves did you feed? Not all leaves are good for shrimps.
I have already fed old brown leaves from oak, beech, birch-tree, maple, alder and apple-tree. Those leaves are ok.

That most of your shrimps sit on the sponge filter is also normal.
They find a lot of delicious food there. :D

Bye,

Peter


i also read someone uses brown leaves in the tanks for their cherries. i threw a few in to see how it goes. dont see any swarming them yet..most of my shrimps stay on my hydro sponge filter.

[april]

mine are oak leaves..so ill just tell them..have a taste..you;ll love them. : )

[MyShrimps]

Hi,

oak leaves are great but it's best to use those leaves which fell from the tree in autumn. They are not only food for the shrimps, they also improve the water for the shrimps, similar to the famous but expensive catappa leaves.
If they didn't fall from the tree in autumn but in another season, it should be ok, too.
But fresh leaves or dried green leaves are not good for the water and at least my shrimps don't eat fresh oak leaves at all.

Peter

[dixienut]

hi there new hear butwith all the other foods listed hear, i haven't seen is what my shrimp love best, romaine lettuce leaves, i just take a few off the stalk and put them in mircowave for 10 seconds and soak them in cool water and then veggi clip them to bottom and they swarm in and its usually a skeleton by 24hours, but i have a few in there and my fish love it too.

[Koi Boy]

seaweed is high in iodine


Hi Gabe,

I am wandering why seaweed has became the main ingridient for CRS food, why is seaweed used?

[guisjg]

Hi,

My shrimps (CRS) loves Tetra Spirulina tabs, Tetra ColorBits and carrots.

Don´t have other options in Brazil :(


regards,

Guilherme
São Paulo - Brazil

[Koi Boy]

my shrimps pretty much ignore most food i give it (red discus sera granules, pleco. waffers, cory. waffers) so i only feed them once every 2-3 days bear in mind i only have 7 crs in a 10 gal aquarium partley carpeted with marimo algae and a leaf litter of oak and japanese pear leaves plus a small piece of malaysian drift wood.
and every one of them is usually picking at something different, sometime i see them, just like a social gathering all clusterd on the driftwood like a dinner meeting, very cute
so my cocnlusion is the more variety the better
and of course if there really hungry they will eat just about anything.
havent tried to boil any food for them yet but im just tooo dam busy or lazy :P
but i do notice at work when i feed a large colony of them a good meal, they dance all over the aquarium as if there working off the food!
the ones at work i normally just feed pleco. waffers, but now i started to offer bloodworms and oak leaves too

[Fumoon]

I'm feeding my Cherry Red Hikari algae wafers and frozen bloodworms. Seems to me that they prefer the worms.....I guess they're meat lovers like me....:D

[ndrake]

mine prefer stinging nettles and oak leaves :D
I think they are good for the shrimps pregnacy

[AquaVu]

I used to feed my shrimps the popular Hikari algae disc until I found out that it does not contain lots of algae or vegetables but mostly fish meal and such. I switched to Wardley's algae disc in which the main ingredient is Spirulina and Algae. My shrimps seem to prefer the taste over Hikari product.

[kevinlaikf]

I feed my Hawaiian Red Shrimps (opae'ula) with pure spirulina powder.

[Saiqpat]

I feed my CRS with self made food - To make it I use green pea, cyclop-ezze, Gammarus - don't know the word in english and a lot of Spirulina. My shrimp love it. It gets them out of any part of tank when it's in the water.

I also give:
-tropical shrimp sticks
-tetra wafer mix
-spirulina
-almond leaves

For my Euryrhynchus amazoniensis:
- Artemin
- from time to time frozen cichlid food

[GCW]

Anyone feed tubifex worms or other live food?

[bencozzy]

well we have some pretty interesting foods listed for dwarf shrimp.

oh and i see some talking about carotenoids and how fatty acids increase fertility, look into frank hoffs book on clownifish breeding has a whole section on fatty acids in the diet and carotenoids and how they are used in spawning and egg developement, not a shrimp book persay but the info is carried over.

book title: Conditioning, Spawning and Rearing of Fish With Emphasis on Marine Clownfish
by Frank H. Hoff (Author)

i feed my shrimp algamac ara(great fatty acid supplement, has DHA and Arachidonic Acid, DHA is used for molting in shrimp) search it and on their site request a free sample theyll send you 25g for free.

naturose-this is astaxanthin which shrimp can use to produce reds and blues, interesting note is that this turns my yellow shrimp bluish green color, but it intensifies the red in my cherries and CRS etc. southerndesert says it made his orange eye blue tigers bluer.

rid-x-yes the septic cleaner, this is the same thing as micro food just super cheap and you get more, has the enzymes lipase, protease, amylase, and cellulase plus bacterial cultures and the shrimp love it.

plus i feed shirakura pellet food and hikari algea wafers.

[Beviking]

No live food. Frozen brine shrimp and blood worms is as close to live as I get.

Ben...rid-x!?! How do you feed that??? Dose mls?

[bencozzy]

its a powder, i just add 1/8th a teaspoon to my tanks.

[kevinlaikf]

I would suggest not to overfeed with too much organic fatty food, unless u love tiny little worms (planaria) all over the places.

I am feeding my shrimps with 100% organic spirulina powder (bought from organic health food outlets), even i overfeed, i did not see any planaria infestation, yet..., perhaps planaria don't seems to like spirulina powder, but my shrimps would emerge from there hideout when the spirulina powder slowing sinks and disperses.
Spirulina also popular as an breeder's spawning catalyst food.

[Beviking]

its a powder, i just add 1/8th a teaspoon to my tanks.

Are those 10gallon/15gallon tanks?

"Spirulina also popular as an breeder's spawning catalyst food" They need a catalyst to breed? Don't tell my shrimp that :joking:

Saiqpat, looks like good English to me. :cool:

-Bill

[bencozzy]

20/29g those are the sizes of my tanks

[Lovespuds]

[QUOTE=Saiqpat;22180]I feed my CRS with self made food - To make it I use green pea, cyclop-ezze, Gammarus - don't know the word in english and a lot of Spirulina. My shrimp love it. It gets them out of any part of tank when it's in the water.

Whats your recipe what proportions how do you make it?

[jojo]

Hi
Like to find out if anyone feed their shrimp with live sea-monkey (brine shrimp)?
I saw they are selling in LFS and wonder how to keep them alive before feeding to the shrimp if they eat?

thanks

[retardo]

On occasion, I feed my fish live brine shrimp in my main tank, which is cohabitated by amano shrimp. Amanos grab the brine so fast and so violently it's painful to watch sometimes. If you want to maintain brine shrimp, you will first need full strength salt water, a container, and an airstone.

[jojo]

thank retardo
How about RCS and CRS, anyone feed to them before?;)

[NISSO]

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[go9ma123]

I feed 5 different food. :)

1. Shirakura shrimp ball
2. Hikari Crystal Red Shrimp Food
3. Hikari Crab Cuisine
4. Hiakri Algae Wafers
5. Tetra Gold Fish Flake

[dxiong5]

I feed mine Hikari sinking wafers, Shirakura pellets, and boiled zucchini/spinach.

Should food be different for shrimplets? There are a lot of powder food out there, but I don't know many people using it.

[noriben]

Sharing a list of how i feed my shrimps(got idea from many websites):

Cherry : Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber

CRS: Hikirai Algae Waffers, boiled: cucumber, spinach and carrot

Yamato: Hikirai Algae Waffers

Care to share what u feed yours?

Hi, i'm new incomer here
pls advice for how to feed my shrimp with cucumber, spinach and carrot
how long to boil?

[go9ma123]

Hi, i'm new incomer here
pls advice for how to feed my shrimp with cucumber, spinach and carrot
how long to boil?

I don't know if they like cucumber or carrot.
I do know that they like spinach.
Get fresh spinach and put them in boiling water about 2-3mins.
Not just CRS, a lot of shrimps will love it.
Make sure you well wash your spanich. :)

[dxiong5]

Hi, i'm new incomer here
pls advice for how to feed my shrimp with cucumber, spinach and carrot
how long to boil?

Hello and welcome!

You should boil for 3-5 minutes. Make sure its fresh and try to use organic veggies.

[noriben]

Hello and welcome!

You should boil for 3-5 minutes. Make sure its fresh and try to use organic veggies.

Thank you for advice.
i will start to feed them with spinach
and hope could be as strong as POPEYE.....:D

[spinex]

I am using:
- MOSURA CRS FOOD - this is the best Japanese brand food so far.
- Spinach - I dont boil them, but steam them. This method retain most of its nutriention, If you boil them the nutriention will get into water. Notice the water is green after boiling spinach?


go9ma123, my CRS does not like carrot and cucumber.

[vtbellagirl]

I use the Sera shrimps natural, crabs natural, O nip, and Spirulina Tabs. My Shrimp go crazy for these foods!! What do you guys think about ethoxyquin in most of the other foods? I know it is used for a preservative in foods, but isnt it really a pesticide??

[gajami]

i feed my shrimps hikari algae wafers,tetra bits and cucumber.they don't eat spinach and carrot:huh:

[Sheng_Ge]

I have tried both organic and non-organic spinach for my shrimps. But I realise my shrimps prefer non-organic spinach. Don't understand why it is so.

[tianxiang15]

I feed my shrimps with algae wafer and weekly treats of frozen blood worms.

[Kian]

Has anyone try Mosura Shrimp Tonic (http://www.assaaqua.com/mosura-shrimps-products/crystal-red-shrimp-bacteria-additives/shrimps-tonic) ?

[fishy332003]

anybody feed your CRS a almond leaf?

[discusdubai]

This is a great thread..Pls keep them coming..

[Nasty12]

Has anyone try Mosura Shrimp Tonic (http://www.assaaqua.com/mosura-shrimps-products/crystal-red-shrimp-bacteria-additives/shrimps-tonic) ?

Quite excited by this product actually, it is not in retailing stores yet. I went to the distributor and get 4 bottles.

[joenichols]

actually through the next several weeks. I am going to try the Danichi veggie deluxe in one of my tanks that have crystal reds and cherry shrimp. As one it is a food that I am feeding to other fish and I already have it on hand.

[tsunamisurfer]

Hi all,

This is really a great thread and reading it gives me good ideas, I am leaning towards Hikari Crab Cruisine.

I've only had my RCS for less than one week and my LFS sold me algae disks (I forget the manufacturer), but after reading some forums, I read that Copper is really bad for RCS.

I checked my chemicals and the fertiliser for the plants DID have copper so I stopped using it, and did a 50% water change immediately.

Then 2 days later I read their algae disk packaging and it contains Copper Sulphate!!

SO I did more research, some sites say that Copper Sulfate is a compound of Copper not real copper, but some sites say NO copper in any form.

Have any of you noticed Copper Sulfate in the foods you give the shrimp?

I would be interested to know whether indeed it is safe.

Help appreciated.

[powerk]

I feed my shrimps with WaferMix by Tetra, and algae from other aquariums.


Quite excited by this product actually, it is not in retailing stores yet. I went to the distributor and get 4 bottles.
Hi, Nasty! Do you have any results? Could you share your's impression with us?

[Nasty12]

I feed my shrimps with WaferMix by Tetra, and algae from other aquariums.


Hi, Nasty! Do you have any results? Could you share your's impression with us?



Hi there!! Shrimp Tonics made my shrimps more lively!!! :D I can see pregnant shrimps come out more often and less after-molt deaths. I suspect ST helps them to recover faster after a molt and they have less chance to be attacked by planeria.:D

[NeyaNey]

Food with copper is usually minimal. However, I wouldn't make it a staple in shrimp diet.

I'm thinking of expirimenting with foods from brine shrimp direct.
Incredibly small sized food. Even algae pastes. Mmm