Mr Bee
Member
Hi, a longish post, but please bear with me.....
Tank is a 60L with 5 Neon & 6 Glowlight Tetras, and in the last couple of weeks have added 6 cherry shrimp. Wonderful little creatures, good to watch, but I also got them to partially help with the build up of algae on the tank decor/rocks etc.
In just a couple of weeks, they've already done a fantastic cleaning job, and I can already see a real difference to the amount of algae on my decor. But I imagine this food supply may run out eventually.....
So from advice from forums, and the shop I bought them from, I have a selection of frozen brine shrimp, hikari crab cuisine, and hikari algae wafers. The problem is, whenever I try and give them some of their specific shrimp food the tetras eat it all and there's none left for my shrimpies
I even hid some inside a shipwreck decoration, and the tetras went inside - note, they have NEVER gone inside this ship before - can fish 'smell' food in the water, cos they seemed to go straight to it?
Anyway, the tetras are proving a problem in trying to feed the shrimp the food I got for them; even distracting them with their own flake food didn't work - they just ate that and then ate the shrimp food too (brine shrimp, crab pellets, algae wafers; they eat all of them!).
Is my best bet to continue trying to hide it somewhere where the tetras cant get to (a small place under a rock maybe?), or as I am planning on shortly creating a mossy area (moss covered slates) with spiky moss, could I hide food in the moss, and would the fish not find it?
My main worry is that I know shrimps need a calcium source for good health and growth, which is what I got the brine shrimp, and crab cuisine pellets for, and if they're not getting them I'm concerned they will moult and not be able to replace a new shell.
I've read somewhere about providing egg shells for calcium - does this work, do they eat it, is it safe, and what are opinions on here about that???
Please help, I love my shrimp and want them to do well :!: :!:
Tank is a 60L with 5 Neon & 6 Glowlight Tetras, and in the last couple of weeks have added 6 cherry shrimp. Wonderful little creatures, good to watch, but I also got them to partially help with the build up of algae on the tank decor/rocks etc.
In just a couple of weeks, they've already done a fantastic cleaning job, and I can already see a real difference to the amount of algae on my decor. But I imagine this food supply may run out eventually.....
So from advice from forums, and the shop I bought them from, I have a selection of frozen brine shrimp, hikari crab cuisine, and hikari algae wafers. The problem is, whenever I try and give them some of their specific shrimp food the tetras eat it all and there's none left for my shrimpies
I even hid some inside a shipwreck decoration, and the tetras went inside - note, they have NEVER gone inside this ship before - can fish 'smell' food in the water, cos they seemed to go straight to it?
Anyway, the tetras are proving a problem in trying to feed the shrimp the food I got for them; even distracting them with their own flake food didn't work - they just ate that and then ate the shrimp food too (brine shrimp, crab pellets, algae wafers; they eat all of them!).
Is my best bet to continue trying to hide it somewhere where the tetras cant get to (a small place under a rock maybe?), or as I am planning on shortly creating a mossy area (moss covered slates) with spiky moss, could I hide food in the moss, and would the fish not find it?
My main worry is that I know shrimps need a calcium source for good health and growth, which is what I got the brine shrimp, and crab cuisine pellets for, and if they're not getting them I'm concerned they will moult and not be able to replace a new shell.
I've read somewhere about providing egg shells for calcium - does this work, do they eat it, is it safe, and what are opinions on here about that???
Please help, I love my shrimp and want them to do well :!: :!: