How often to feed shrimp?

[PineSong]

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?

 

[Guppysnail]

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. 

[Torrey]

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.

[Minanora]

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 😛

[PineSong]

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.

[BuzzDaddy21]

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.