DiscoJohnny Posted November 16, 2018 Report Share Posted November 16, 2018 So been searching around for snowflake food for my growing cherry colony. Found out snowflake food is nothing more than compressed pellets of soybean hulls. Better yet it is used in agriculture as feed and quite cheap. Like $150 a ton cheap. So I found a 5lb bag of pellet soybean hull bird food. Company confirms it is 100% non-gmo soybean hulls with no filler. Only costs $11 shipped. A fraction of what shrimp specific snowflake foods goes for in 30 gram sizes. Can anyone see any reason this would not work for our shrimp? Ron Kalman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaus777 Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 Just give it a try on some shrimp that you wont care about losing if something terrible happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimp Life Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 Not many people are ever going to use 5lbs of it. It would take me a year to use about .5 lb of it and I have 15 shrimp tanks. Thats probably the reason people don't bother buying large volumes of it. Also snowflake that is sold by retailers for shrimp use has been tested with our shrimp prior to selling it and is safe. Since the packages from retailers are around 30g, they still last a surprisingly long time when shrimp have a varied diet of biofilm, snowflake and other foods presented to our shrimp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revaria Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 Aside from overfeeding I don't really see a problem, shrimp can kinda live off of anything, just make sure to provide a variety of foods and a source of ingestible calcium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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