What food do these shrimp really LIKE?

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What food do these shrimp really LIKE?

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I read on here that they will eat any type of flake/pellet fish food, but is there a particular food these shrimp really like?
Has anyone found a food their shrimp go crazy for?
Or do they really not care?
I have been advised to throw away my decade old goldfish food (does this stuff even go bad?).
Its coming up to a month of owning these creatures (I know I'm only supposed to feed them once a month).
I would like to get them something they enjoy since I have put them through quite a bit (if you're curious, check out the thread I started about lethargic shrimp).

Additional info: tank size is approximately 1.33 gal some rock substrate and a few pcs of coral, 21 relatively happy souls, along with some wispy brackish moss.
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I feed NLS foods to my fish. I also feed Omega One veggie rounds and a generic algae wafer to my freshwater shrimp. The opae ula seem to prefer the Omega One wafers. It has kelp and spirulina as the first two ingredients. I think they aren't too picky though.
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Kelp, got it! Thank you!
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I'm not saying kelp is a main food for them. I think most find that spirulina is eaten well by them, but they don't really need constantly fed. Just let some algae grow.
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These shrimp will go "crazy" for any good quality fish food *if* they are hungry. Shrimp going "nuts" for a specific type of food is not necessarily an indicator of how much they like it...
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Hmm, ok I see; good quality fish food.
Currently my vase looks very clear, but I do have some brackish moss.
This takes so much self control not to over feed these little critters.
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augustus4842 wrote:H
This takes so much self control not to over feed these little critters.
It sure does. :) It helps to just put in the next date of feeding in some calendar two weeks from now and just forget about it.
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