What has my shrimp been eating?

BM · Post by BM » Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:20 pm

I have an adult 16"+ M. Rosenbergii. For weeks now he hasn't been eating the usual diet of algae wafers i've been throwing in, or anything i've tried to feed him. He usually goes nuts when i toss in food, now I would just net it back out. Yet, he has been pooping non-stop (like a large pleco). My question is what do u think he has been eating?

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:15 pm

What do you have in your tank besides the shrimp?

BM · Post by BM » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:36 pm

Only the prawn, nothing else, not even much algae, I do 5 gallon water change once a week. Just gravel, fake plants, rocks, and a plastic log cave.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:09 am

Probably getting ready to molt. How long has it been since his last one?

Have you tried any meat based food like a small dead fish?

BM · Post by BM » Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:45 pm

It's been about 5 months, since March. Maybe it is about time for him to molt.
Yeah, I use to feed him everything, from meat to vegetables to fish food to wafer, then he got picky and would only eat wafers, that was a few months ago.
But how would he poop constantly without an outside source of food?

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:35 pm

He may be picking at small stuff in the gravel, snails, etc.

BM · Post by BM » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:32 am

I have nothing else alive in that tank. I have not introduce anything in that tank besides the prawn since I got the tank. That's why I'm so curious. He's probably feeding off of algae, and maybe that's why my tank's so clean of it.