If you pre-soak the flake food for a few minutes ( 2-10 depending on food type), it will sink. You can add a good sized pinch - if you feel you added too much, just do a water change next day or 2 ...
All the shrimp I mentioned will eat flake, I'm less keen on Amano's as mine all get lazy - except for racing out at feeding time, then watch out! - (maybe I feed too much "good stuff" ) & they get quite large (males stay smaller for most shrimp species, color may be stronger in either male or female depending)
If you go with "wild type" colouring (eg, red cherry is fine, but "bloody mary" variant is usually less hardy) most shrimp are quite tolerant
- I use a Python for water changes & just add Prime for tank volume when refilling with tap water that is 1-3 C lower than tank temp, cooler is always better.
If your water is very soft, you many want to add some GH booster for moulting (I don't but I do feed frozen brine shrimp, daphnia, bloodworm).
Just get shrimps that won't break the budget - I usually establish shrimps before adding in any fish other than oto's, but it should work fine either way (unless you want barbs! they tend to be quite avid shrimp hunters).
All the shrimp I mentioned will eat flake, I'm less keen on Amano's as mine all get lazy - except for racing out at feeding time, then watch out! - (maybe I feed too much "good stuff" ) & they get quite large (males stay smaller for most shrimp species, color may be stronger in either male or female depending)
If you go with "wild type" colouring (eg, red cherry is fine, but "bloody mary" variant is usually less hardy) most shrimp are quite tolerant
- I use a Python for water changes & just add Prime for tank volume when refilling with tap water that is 1-3 C lower than tank temp, cooler is always better.
If your water is very soft, you many want to add some GH booster for moulting (I don't but I do feed frozen brine shrimp, daphnia, bloodworm).
Just get shrimps that won't break the budget - I usually establish shrimps before adding in any fish other than oto's, but it should work fine either way (unless you want barbs! they tend to be quite avid shrimp hunters).