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They have plankton sold at fish stores (zooplankton,phytoplankton). Can I feed this to bamboo shrimp? Also can I use bottled plankton to feed baby shrimp?

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Also there is some other food, can I feed this to my bamboo shrimp and baby shrimp?

OSI-Food
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You can, but you don't need too. I take a good algae based flake food and grind it up into a fine powder. I put a pinch into the flow from my filter the the shrimp sit under. They love it.

lately I've been treating them to live rotifers seeing as how they have overtaken most of my green water tanks. I've been feeding them on pure green water for about 20 minutes, then dumping this into the tank. I've never see the bamboo shrimp so excited. They actually are pushing each other out of the way for the best perch. Rotifers are sort of like tiny jellyfish that end up being a grocery bag of algae. A baby shrimp can eat them just fine, but they also do great with whatever is caught in the java weed too.

That's good. But how do Roifters ger into the water. Do you need eggs of some sort. Culture them. I have never seen any Roifter stuff at my lfs. I have seen brine shrimp stuff though. Can you feen baby brine shrimp to baby shrimp.

You can order rotifers as eggs, or as a live culture. The live culture is definitely easier.

Check http://www.aquaculturestore.com/info/rotifer.html for what is involved. They sell nice kits, but their food isn't as good as roti-rich by Florida Aqua farms.

You need to grow green water and suppliment it with simething like roti-Rich. I'm feeding them roti-rich twice a day, then I extract them and feed them pure green water about 20 minutes before I feed them to my Bamboos. Any extra green water goes to them too.

I've committed a 4ft wide by 5 ft tall shelf to grow green water and I have several 10 gallon tanks that I now have turned over to the rotifers. These are what I plan on feeding to my larval shrimp when the time comes. I have both fresh and saltwater varieties going of both green water and rotifers.

Depending on the shrimp, brine shrimp hatchlings may be too big. I don't know anything about larval bamboos but I would think that green water and rotifers are a better choice than brine shrimp.