cyanobacteria as food?

ucanbyteme · Post by **ucanbyteme** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:20 pm

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?

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:53 pm

i dont know a lot of animal who actually eat this algae ....

Das Dee · Post by **Das Dee** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:01 pm

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...

Br.,
Dirk

shrimpscampi · Post by **shrimpscampi** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:20 pm

The links don't seem to work Das.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:08 pm

They don't work for me either. I feed mine spirulina flake and live marine algae.

ucanbyteme · Post by **ucanbyteme** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:32 pm

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.

carbon etc · Post by **carbon etc** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:52 pm

Lots of things eat dead cyano. I don't know of anything that eats live cyano.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:28 pm

Opae ula eat it. Within a week of adding them to a tank that was overgrown with it, there was no trace of it.

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:45 pm

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.

Das Dee · Post by **Das Dee** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:53 am

Hi,

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

Br.,
Dirk

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:53 am

Das Dee wrote:Hi,

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

Br.,
Dirk

ar eyou sure it is cyano ?
on the first pic , i cannot recognize cyano .... but i can be wrong

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:00 am

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

Just supports the claims that amano shrimp are one of the more active shrimp when eating algae.

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:01 am

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 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

Das Dee · Post by **Das Dee** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:06 am

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...

Br.,
Dirk

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:30 am

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

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