What are ideal foods for shrimps?

[wheezo]

Hello, I just wanted to know what to feed my shrimps and what you guys consider ideal and the best to get maximum growth and health. Thanks.

[Shrimpmania]

Bascially their main source of supply is Algae... I don't have any fish in my shrimp tank so there is no left over fish food for them . I ocassionaly feed them Veggie waffers or pallets or even fish flakes food

[rs79]

Hello, I just wanted to know what to feed my shrimps and what you guys consider ideal and the best to get maximum growth and health. Thanks.

My small shrimp just eat wlgae and whatever else they find growing in their tanks. Other than the odd snail that's all that's in there, -except for come cyclops and tiny midge larva that seem to have come out of nowhere but don't seem to be eatern.

My ammos get live white worms once a week which they prefer over anything. I used to use dried food/pellets/whatever but any prepared food especially dried, made my tank cloudy and live worms dont.

I find it odd that ammanos eat things as big as white worms yet all the other shrimp won't bother any small aquatic insect or crustacean.

[wheezo]

What about vegetables? I heard that some people feed them zucchini or boiled spinach and sweet potatoes? Are all these vegetables boiled before fed?

[Bradimus]

Boiled is fine. Baked is fine for the spud.

[retardo]

products i've read in other forums include cyclop-eeze and hikari crab pellets. otherwise, it's leftover flake food, algae, detritus, and whatever else they can find. i haven't tried feeding boiled veggies of any kind yet. i will try it eventually tho. i'm just not sure how long to keep the veggie in there.

i feed my shrimp some hikari crab pellets every once in awhile, but i'm not sure if there's any real benefit to feeding it. i've read that it's the calcium component of the pellet that promotes shrimp growth/molting since calcium is used to rebuild their outer shells after a molt. my shrimp seem to be molting a little more often than usual tho, so maybe there is a benefit, but it's hard to say since i do not know exactly which shrimp has the new skin (15 total).

[Mustafa]

Any type of "crab pellets" or "special invertebrate food" is not needed at all. Those food items are just sales gimmicks to increase profits with unnecessary products that most likely don't differ at all from just normal fish food.

I feed normal flake food and pellets and my shrimp are doing great. The molting happens automatically when shrimp get a lot of food since they have to expand as they grow. It has nothing to do with any kind of additional calcium claimed in those crab pellets.

Mustafa