kvnsu Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Greetings everyone I know this is a very noob question and there are a lot of vague rules to go by for example,15 mins to an hour I have read on different post. What I'm curious about is after 15 mins and your shrimps are still on the food should you just take it out or 'let them finish'. And lastly how often should you feed your shrimp? My tank is 7 gallons, temp is 76, 1 IAL (can add more), 3-4 pieces of cholla wood, 2-3 moss balls broken up, 20-30 cherry shrimp, 2 mini sponge filters and HOB with sponge wrapped around filter intake. Moderately planted and tons, tons of moss. Tank has been set up for roughly about a month and some weeks. I leave the light on for 5-6 hours a day. What would be your recommendations for feeding schedule? Don't know how to attach pics MableBile 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvnsu Posted June 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Found out how to attach pics.. Here is the tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrimpybuisness Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 I have 20+ adult Red Rilis 6+ Oebt and around 150 red rili babies. I have a planted 20 Gallon tank for them so there is plenty of food to graze on but i usually feed them every other day (Enough for them to finish within an hour) but ive went on vacation for a week without feeding them and them were perfectly fine kvnsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANBU Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 It is best to underfeed then overfeed kvnsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETAquarium Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 This is my regime, and it depends on how mature your tank is along with how many shrimp you have. I currently feed Monday-Friday, alternating foods between each day. Saturday and Sunday, I give their digestive system time to remove all excess. How much? In my PRL Tank I have about the same number of shrimp, with the exception of about 20-30 shrimplets. I feed them once a day, half or a third of the normal pellet/stick/pad/etc. In my Taiwan Bee tank for instance I have around 50-60 shrimp I feed 3/4 to a whole pellet/stick/pad/etc. Hope this helps! Remember every now again, treat them to some Mulberry/Amaranth/Kale/Spinach/etc they love it! kvnsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquariumlover10 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 I feed snowflake or a variety of other foods once a week, granted I only have 1 shrimp left:'( but that's how I fed when I had all 10 now theirs enough stuff In their for the shrimp to graze on and my least killifish eats the bladder snails in their kvnsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 my least killifish eats the bladder snails in their Is this a good snail-eating fish? Do you have to squash the snails first? And it won't eat your shrimp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquariumlover10 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 well mine is wild caught so I think it ate them in the wild, but yeah, never touched a shrimp, it keeps the bladder snail population under control,, wont touch bigger ones though. he just pecks at them and kills them they eats them. sarah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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