PineSong Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 My new neocaridina shrimp are in my fry grow-out tank which is jam packed with guppy grass and wood, has a bag of crushed coral and has been set up for around 5 months. The fry are fed 3 times per day, Sera Micron and other good foods crushed. I have Xtreme Shrimpee pellets but don't know how often I should put them in, or how many. I only have 4 shrimp, and a bejillion ramshorn snails. The guppy fry seem to pay no attention to the pellets but the snails are glued to them non-stop. How often should I put in shrimp pellets as opposed to letting the shrimp eat fry leftovers/debris/algae? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 In my guppy fry tank my cpd/Pygmy tank and my guppy community I never feed shrimp. In my bare bottom pleco/ cpd tank the only gets a touch of flake or granules I lightly sprinkle shrimp baby or first bites or sera micron 1x a week so it hits a lot of surfaces. If you are feeding fry food they don’t need it but the shrimp specific food is good for them occasionally so it’s your discretion. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrey Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 In a fry grow out tank, I doubt you will have to feed them. When I had a colony, I wrapped BugBites shrimp pellets inside a blanched leaf or vegetable, stuck a bamboo skewer through it, and left it in the tank for 2 - 3 hours on Sun & Wed. Sometimes they only ate the BugBites, sometimes they devoured everything. They ate just enough algae for net neutral on growth. That was a little over a dozen adult shrimp, and shrimplettes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minanora Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 I feed my Shrimpee food to my corydoras.... >.> My neos aren't very interested in them. If you feed them the shrimpee sticks, take them out after a few hours our they're very hard to get out.... of course I'm sure the fish will help 😛 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 Okay, the consensus is that my shrimp will survive off the leftovers from the fry, biofilm, and algae. Sorry snailies, no more Shrimpee every day! Thanks all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzDaddy21 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 I only have a few shrimp in two tanks. I picked up some Aqueon bottom feeder tablets a while back (These are really small tabs.) and some Hikari algae wafers from CO-OP (These are much bigger.) trapdoor snails, guppies and all the shrimp will nibble on them as well as everything else. Hope that might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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