What Does Everyone Feed Their Shrimp?

I'm getting ready to get more Neocaridina Shrimp and it has me curious, what does everyone feed there shrimp?

 

I let mine live off the tank and food on the bottom

 

Zucchini!

 

I have fed mine carrots, broccoli, nettles, mulberry leaves, cucumbers, dandelion leaves, Hakari shrimp cuisine, Fluval granules and shrimp pellets.

 

I have fed mine carrots, broccoli, nettles, mulberry leaves, cucumbers, dandelion leaves, Hakari shrimp cuisine, Fluval granules and shrimp pellets.

I’m planning on getting a new type of pellet and possibly making jello?

 

I’m planning on getting a new type of pellet and possibly making jello?

Never made jello. Got pellet mix from Aquaticblendedfoods (ABF ultra shrimp mix 2) my shrimp, snails and fish love them

 

I remembered a discussion a while back, so I looked it up. You'll have to scroll down a bit to get to the food part.

I've changed a bit to what I feed, but it's a great place to start.... especially since richiep posted a feeding schedule in the thread

Shrimp Tank Water Parameters | Cherry Shrimp Forum | 367256

 

Im not sure why but I keep ghost shrimp, neos, and amanos and I havent been able to get them to eat any kind of leaf or veggie. they seem to like cholla at least though. so I just feed them 3-5 shrimp pellets every day and they eat biofilm and cholla aside from that

 

Hikari Shrimp Cuisine and Low Keys Ultra Supple Shrimp Food. I also add a mulberry leaf every week or so and occasionally a piece of homemade frozen fish food.

 

Hi Katie its nice to see comments on the range of food people are feeding which is so important, putting them in a tank to fend for themselves is not the right way to go, we must try and mimic their wild conditions as close as possible so they not only moult right but their health dosnt slowly degenerate which kills them over time,
Veg once a week is important to condition them for moulting, I personally feed Broccoli,spinach, zanucchie,(nettle in the summer) as far as I'm concerned if you get them on any two of these they'll be fine, any good complete pellet will go inbetween, you should also feed frozen bloodworm at least once a fortnight this gives them protein which aids the reproductive system,
If you find they refuse to eat like Pfrozen is finding it may be because they have got used to eating whats in the tank so what you do is dont feed anything for 3days then try your veg, remember its important to cook all veg so its soft enough for them to pull apart, if its not they will refuse to eat it and put them off the next time you try, while the shrimp are on the food leave
it in as I find mine come around in shifts, I only take it out when the feeding stops.
You can also feed small amounts of Bactor AE this is proven to increase the amount of babies that survive,this amongst many other things increases biofilms which young shrimp depend on,
Other things I feed are Oak leaves, mulberry leaves, catapa leaves and logs, alder cones, these are always available to them beside my feeding programme, you dont have to go at it and buy everything but take something from this just to help you along.

 

Cucumbers, rapashey, kelp wafers, fluval shrimp grannusls. Plus sometimes nano pellets or bug bites. Just huge variety

 

Hi Katie its nice to see comments on the range of food people are feeding which is so important, putting them in a tank to fend for themselves is not the right way to go, we must try and mimic their wild conditions as close as possible so they not only moult right but their health dosnt slowly degenerate which kills them over time,
Veg once a week is important to condition them for moulting, I personally feed Broccoli,spinach, zanucchie,(nettle in the summer) as far as I'm concerned if you get them on any two of these they'll be fine, any good complete pellet will go inbetween, you should also feed frozen bloodworm at least once a fortnight this gives them protein which aids the reproductive system,
If you find they refuse to eat like Pfrozen is finding it may be because they have got used to eating whats in the tank so what you do is dont feed anything for 3days then try your veg, remember its important to cook all veg so its soft enough for them to pull apart, if its not they will refuse to eat it and put them off the next time you try, while the shrimp are on the food leave
it in as I find mine come around in shifts, I only take it out when the feeding stops.
You can also feed small amounts of Bactor AE this is proven to increase the amount of babies that survive,this amongst many other things increases biofilms which young shrimp depend on,
Other things I feed are Oak leaves, mulberry leaves, catapa leaves and logs, alder cones, these are always available to them beside my feeding programme, you dont have to go at it and buy everything but take something from this just to help you along.

Thanks for the advice Richie.. in the past I've always had veggies in my tank throughout the day and even evening but no dice.. I will be adding leaves and cones though so that may help. I think I'll finally get around to ordering some Bacter AE as well. As far as veg goes I haven't tried a lot of fruit so there may be something I'm missing

 

I know shrimp keepers swear by certain diets, but research has shown that various different foods have little to no effect on cherry shrimp survival:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/are.14841

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10811-017-1220-5

With that said, research has shown that different foods can affect pigmentation. Feeding food rich in Astaxanthin has been shown to increase intensity of the color and increase weight gain:

https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JFE/article/view/80595

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anu.13076

 

I know shrimp keepers swear by certain diets, but research has shown that various different foods have little to no effect on cherry shrimp survival:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/are.14841

Effects of dietary incorporation of Arthrospira ( Spirulina ) platensis meal on growth, survival, body composition, and reproductive performance of red cherry shrimp Neocaridina davidi (Crustacea, Atyidae) over successive spawnings

With that said, research has shown that different foods can affect pigmentation. Feeding food rich in Astaxanthin has been shown to increase intensity of the color and increase weight gain:

https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JFE/article/view/80595

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anu.13076

On what your saying you've paid the researcher for proof of their findings, from what I can see its just a money spinner.
Researchers worth their salt would produce all their findings free,

 

What I'm seeing generally is that Hikari shrimp cuisine is good...
Also does anyone use Bacter-AE and is it effective/good food for shrimp?

 

On what your saying you've paid the researcher for proof of their findings, from what I can see its just a money spinner.
Researchers worth their salt would produce all their findings free,

??? You mean the journal or the researcher? These are peer-reviewed academic journals.... The researcher does not choose to have a paywall, and regardless, they are accessible to academic institutions.

Feel free to search through google scholar for many more...the common trend is that cherries are hardy and have high survival rates regardless of the food choice

Here is a freely-accessible research on leaf-litter preference of cherry shrimp:

https://brill.com/view/journals/cr/90/14/article-p1715_3.xml

This research prefaced with the understanding that leaf litter (not fish food, cucumber, algae wafer or any other fancy food we feed) is the main food source of cherry shrimp. Whether you agree or not, they cite several sources (in the Introduction) that bacterial, microorganism colonization, as well as fungal breakdown of leaf is able to provide the nitrogen, phosphorus and protein content for wild cherry shrimp. There is no evidence that wild cherry shrimp require the high protein density, highly processed foods that we aquarists tend to feed them...