cyanobacteria as food?

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cyanobacteria as food?

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I have been keeping a clean tank for my Vocano Shrimp feeding Spirialina but I know many of you say you can put an algae covered rock from another tank for them to munch on. Just wondering, if I do indroduce a rock, the one I have has some red slime (cyanobacteria) would this be ok for them to eat?
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i dont know a lot of animal who actually eat this algae .... :roll:
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Hi,

good question...
What I did once, I took a piece of blue algae (also cyano bacteria) covered rock an put it in a quarantain tank for new cardinia japonica.

Begin:
http://www.aquarienforum.de/forum/attac ... 1112897994

1 hour later:
http://www.aquarienforum.de/forum/attac ... 1112898004

Guess you can't compare it as the rock was already dried...

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The links don't seem to work Das.
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They don't work for me either. I feed mine spirulina flake and live marine algae.
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Link dose not work for me either, all I see is a moticon. Using the newest Internet Explorer 7, first time I have had a problem.
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Post by carbon etc »

Lots of things eat dead cyano. I don't know of anything that eats live cyano.
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Opae ula eat it. Within a week of adding them to a tank that was overgrown with it, there was no trace of it.
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badflash wrote:Opae ula eat it. Within a week of adding them to a tank that was overgrown with it, there was no trace of it.
wow
what a shrimp then.
dead cyano , i know some animals who will eat them , but live wow.
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Das Dee wrote:Hi,

OK - try this:
http://www.aquarienforum.de/forum/showt ... hp?t=22445

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ar eyou sure it is cyano ?
on the first pic , i cannot recognize cyano .... but i can be wrong :roll:
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What I did once, I took a piece of blue algae (also cyano bacteria) covered rock an put it in a quarantain tank for new cardinia japonica.
Whatever you had on the rock was eaten clean off, very dramatic difference :o Just supports the claims that amano shrimp are one of the more active shrimp when eating algae.
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Neonshrimp wrote:
What I did once, I took a piece of blue algae (also cyano bacteria) covered rock an put it in a quarantain tank for new cardinia japonica.
Whatever you had on the rock was eaten clean off, very dramatic difference :o Just supports the claims that amano shrimp are one of the more active shrimp when eating algae.
yeah :)
mo doubt on that, look like the rock get clean very well better than a human can do :)
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Hi,

guess we are talking about different types of cyano.
Mine were blue algae and the stone was dried after empty a blue algae contaminated tank. As ucanbyteme wrote about "red algae" - which I think are sea or brakish water bacteria - you can not compare it...

Sorry - I just read cyano...

Btw. did you notice the plant som post lower... :wink:

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I believe you can safely feed them from this algae covered rock. As I have read from the Shrimp Varieties section, these shrimp feed of of "algae and aufwuchs". Aufwuchs is a term meaning plants and animals adhering to parts of rooted aquatic plants and other open surfaces, also organisms and detritus coating rocks and plants in an aquatic environment often fed on by fish specialised as scrapers. Hope this helps :wink: .
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