Naturally formed in aquarium: bacterial microfilms, brown or green algae
Store bought: flakes, sinking pellet, shrimp pellet, frozen or dried bloodworms, tubifex worms, sinking algae tabs.
Human food: sliced zucchini, cucumber, unsalted seaweed (nori), blanched spinach (to sink these stuffs, I tied them to fishing bait weight (not made from lead).)
Free stuffs from nature: leaf litters, only browned leaf should be used. You have to let this stuff sink in the aquarium water for several days to remove as much tannin and allow to form microfilms. Do not use citrus tree leaves. Several leaves I tested in the order of shrimps' preference: strawberry > apple=guava > loquat > maple leaves (not asian maple). Maple leaves last over a month in the tank but strawberry or apple leaves disappear within days (it could also cause water chemistry change... so be careful).
Whatever you feed, DO NOT OVERFEED!!!
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RCS munching on a slice of cucumber (top) and zucchini (bottom) |
Hi saw your ad , had a few questions been trying to find answer to, first off is it ok to put shrimp into a sump filter(35-40 gallon) to clear any uneaten food that gets thru the overflow, and if so anything special I need to do thats different then having them in a tank so far Ive put snails in there and there doing great but trying find something new to try.
ReplyDeleteI've never try to put shrimps in the sump but someone bought from me for that purpose and was successful. You can use red cherry shrimps but you can also try ghost shrimps ( cheaper but not pretty) too.
ReplyDeleteOk so it has been done before then, was worried
DeleteIll have to email you this week and buy some to try out when I have day off from work