Feeding fresh.

[polyp02]

What kind of fish, or shellfish, would I be able to feed shrimps and crabs. I curently feed my fish live brine shrimp but they leave nothing for the shrimp.

[kcochran0010]

Do you have your own brine shrimp hatchery?? Or do you get it from the pet store every time for your fish?

[polyp02]

I buy it from my LFS, its a dollar for a tablespoon of brine and they are about 2 cm long so you get a bunch of them. I just keep them in a small tank with a heater and air stone.

[polyp02]

I guess I'm not new to the hobby anymore since no one has answered my question. See ya!

[cloak]

What kind of fish, or shellfish, would I be able to feed shrimps and crabs. I curently feed my fish live brine shrimp but they leave nothing for the shrimp.


Being a scavenger, they'll pretty much eat whatever you throw in the tank. If one is not getting it, the other will. You might have to spend a little extra time to make sure the pet gets fed. Pick & choose.

GL.

[Levito]

Sorry nobody could reply quick enough for you between 10PM and 1AM on a Friday night.
You can feed them most fresh food you get at the store: shrimp, scallops, oysters, clams, etc.
I wouldn't bother with the brine shrimp. There's little to no nutritional value in them, and your fish aren't going to thrive on that alone.

[AaronM]

Hey,
All my crabs and shrimp seem to prefer the frozen food over pellets. The frozen food i feed is brine and mysis shrimp, and marine green herbivore cubes.

Sometimes i'll spot feed my crabs (Xanthidae, Mithrax, Galatheid, and hermit) with shrimp from a turkey blaster or marine green on a skewer.

My snapping shrimp seem to survive, shed, and grow without me really seeing them eat. I suspect they grab leftovers. I've squirted their haunts with shrimp before... dunno if they got it.

HTH!

[Chris27]

I find it better to allow my inverts to scavenge as they would in nature, thus I don't spot feed them, after all that's why I have them in there in the first place.

[polyp02]

I find it better to allow my inverts to scavenge as they would in nature, thus I don't spot feed them, after all that's why I have them in there in the first place.

I have been doing this but they will prefer the baby corals first before scavenging on the sand.

I guess posting something late at night was a bad idea, but it was on a friday. ??? :fun2:

[Chris27]

I have been doing this but they will prefer the baby corals first before scavenging on the sand.

I guess posting something late at night was a bad idea, but it was on a friday. ??? :fun2:

Some reefers, myself not included, have a life outside of their tanks! :lmao:

What type of inverts do you have tearing up the corals? Cleaner shrimp and most hermits are about as safe as they can be, do you perhaps have a peppermint that's going after some frogspawn?

[Jstdv8]

some reefers, myself not included, have a life outside of their tanks! :lmao:

lucky!

[cloak]

In the bottle? JK.

:)

[AaronM]

For me, alot of crabs aren't in the tank for the purpose of scavenging, rather they're in there because i find them interesting. As some of them are large, and don't come across the myriad of organisms they would happen upon in nature, i find it better to ocasionally spot feed them. I think if i keep my xanthidae well fed then their nightly search for food becomes less urgent.

Its very staifying to watch a crab snatch food off the scewer and bundle it up around its mouth.

I guess most of my crabs get a treat like this about once every 2 weeks...as if they've come across a dead fish in the wild or som'n...

[Chris27]

Come to think of it, I do have a cleaner shrimp that jumps right in the middle of a Seabae and wrestles food from it.....brave little shrimp if you ask me.