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we have some fresh green broccoli in the fridge, will red cherries eat it?

hey josh, to save you trouble why don't you just feed them one type of food. I feed my shrimps only pellets from crab cuisine and from time to time alternate it with algae flakes. From my opinion anything with calcium iodate is good enough for the shrimps since those are the ingredients that are essential to shrimps.

I'm sorry, im just curious on what all they could eat I usually like my pets to have a very VARIED diet, to ensure all proper nutrition. I guess the algae disks and fish flakes will be ok
Josh

I've fed broccolli, cuke, zuke, and soft baby spinach with success. The only failure I recal were carrots.

My approach is "try it" (a small piece) but always be ready to immediately scoop it out if no one is interested and/or if it begins to disintegrate (or something) in the tank. I've fed my shrimp and snails avocado to see if they liked it--they initially all swarmed over it but gave up on it kind of quickly (might have been too fatty for their little hands). I kind of like to expand their eating experience.

51Cornell wrote:I kind of like to expand their eating experience.

Try bananas and paprika (a bit cooked). It is interesting that some shrimp seem to like these snacks while others do not.

Right know I don't feed my algae eating shrimp at all, they graze on the algae that's in the tank. BTW - the tank looks like a moldy-green garbage-can The Fire Reds (aka Cherries) are deep red, it seems the algae is enough to keep them happy (plus eating the once in a while dead shrimp).