Feeding A Community Tank (cories, Shrimp, Betta)

I'm trying to find the best way to feed my 15 gallon tank with C. habrosus, red cherry shrimp, assassin snails and in the near future a betta (as soon as I get my quarantine tank). I've been feeding the tank since I got my first shrimp in February with JBL Novo Tabs. The ingredients list and compositions of the food on the side of the package goes like this:

Ingredients: molluscs an crustaceans, cereals, vegetable by-products, fish and fish by-products, vegetables, vegetable protein extracts, yeast, eggs and egg by-products, algae

Additives: colourings, antioxidant E306 (natural vitamin E extracts)

Vitamins (per 1000 g): A-22 000 IU, D3-2 000 IU, E-300 mg, C (stable)-350 mg, Inosite-500 mg

Analytical composition: Protein-43 %, Fat content-8 %, Raw fibre-1.9 %, Crude ash-8.1 %


In addition to this dry food I feed a mix of frozen food (red, black and white mosquito larvae, brine shrimp and daphnia). I have cuttlebone pieces in the tank for the shrimp and the snails and I'll (starting today) feed blanched vegetables a few times a week as well.

So is this a good diet for all the inhabitants of the tank? Or should I switch to a different dry food or add something? If so what? I'm having a problem with the shrimp not reproducing (they had babies recently but I can't find them anymore) and I thought it might have to do with the food? That or there isn't still enough hides for the babies... And about the betta, the tabs are sinking but if crushed small enough will float so the betta would be able to feed on them.

A short vid of my fishies:

 

I'm trying to find the best way to feed my 15 gallon tank with C. habrosus, red cherry shrimp, assassin snails and in the near future a betta (as soon as I get my quarantine tank). I've been feeding the tank since I got my first shrimp in February with JBL Novo Tabs. The ingredients list and compositions of the food on the side of the package goes like this:

Ingredients: molluscs an crustaceans, cereals, vegetable by-products, fish and fish by-products, vegetables, vegetable protein extracts, yeast, eggs and egg by-products, algae

Additives: colourings, antioxidant E306 (natural vitamin E extracts)

Vitamins (per 1000 g): A-22 000 IU, D3-2 000 IU, E-300 mg, C (stable)-350 mg, Inosite-500 mg

Analytical composition: Protein-43 %, Fat content-8 %, Raw fibre-1.9 %, Crude ash-8.1 %


In addition to this dry food I feed a mix of frozen food (red, black and white mosquito larvae, brine shrimp and daphnia). I have cuttlebone pieces in the tank for the shrimp and the snails and I'll (starting today) feed blanched vegetables a few times a week as well.

So is this a good diet for all the inhabitants of the tank? Or should I switch to a different dry food or add something? If so what? I'm having a problem with the shrimp not reproducing (they had babies recently but I can't find them anymore) and I thought it might have to do with the food? That or there isn't still enough hides for the babies... And about the betta, the tabs are sinking but if crushed small enough will float so the betta would be able to feed on them.

A short vid of my fishies:

Sounds like your fish get great care!
I would recommend you get some floating betta pellets for the betta. Even if you can make the tabs float in small pieces, they are not very good food for the betta anyway (too much vegetable content) and since you don't have to worry about anything else eating floating food I would just get it its own food.

As for the baby shrimp disappearing, if you are sure they aren't in there anymore and not simply hiding out of sight, then you don't have enough hides for sure If you can see them, the cories can. Baby RCS are a prime snack for the vast majority of fish and a breeding colony doesn't really work in a community tank.

 

Thanks for the response!
Yeah, that's kind of what I thought about the current food and the betta. I'll start looking into betta foods. About the shrimp, I just came back from a trip to HelsinkI and bought some more moss for them from a shop there. I'm also searching for shrimp hides that are small enough that the cories can't get to the shrimp. But it's not just that the babies don't survive, the females aren't getting berried that often. And when they do get berried they lose their eggs in a few days. It's not like I didn't expect to lose many of the babies but I thought with them being considered easy to breed they'd breed fast enough to keep the colony going. Maybe I bit a too large bite for myself by trying to have both shrimp and fish in my first tank... But I'll hang on there and try to keep everyone alive

 

Thanks for the response!
Yeah, that's kind of what I thought about the current food and the betta. I'll start looking into betta foods. About the shrimp, I just came back from a trip to HelsinkI and bought some more moss for them from a shop there. I'm also searching for shrimp hides that are small enough that the cories can't get to the shrimp. But it's not just that the babies don't survive, the females aren't getting berried that often. And when they do get berried they lose their eggs in a few days. It's not like I didn't expect to lose many of the babies but I thought with them being considered easy to breed they'd breed fast enough to keep the colony going. Maybe I bit a too large bite for myself by trying to have both shrimp and fish in my first tank... But I'll hang on there and try to keep everyone alive

Corys won't eat shrimp

Bettas do

 

Maybe there's another reason the shrimp are dropping their eggs. Regardless of predators, if they feel unsafe or don't have enough hides they might drop them. Or if you're sticking your hand in too much even. I would recommend a couple more plants for them to hide around in but also test your water and see what's going on. Post your water parameters and maybe you can get some answers from that

 

Another thing is that cherry shrimp really like to have a varied diet. Not like flake a on Monday and flake b on Tuesday. Like have a few different kinds of food for them and on feeding days just stick your hand in the draw and feed them whatever you touch first. Remember nature has no schedule. I would recommend trying to establish the shrimp colony before you introduce any potential predators (a Betta)