Feeding fresh.

[polyp02]

What kind of fish, or shellfish, would I be able to feed shrimps and crabs. I curently feed my fish live brine shrimp but they leave nothing for the shrimp.

[kcochran0010]

Do you have your own brine shrimp hatchery?? Or do you get it from the pet store every time for your fish?

[polyp02]

I buy it from my LFS, its a dollar for a tablespoon of brine and they are about 2 cm long so you get a bunch of them. I just keep them in a small tank with a heater and air stone.

[polyp02]

I guess I'm not new to the hobby anymore since no one has answered my question. See ya!

[cloak]

Originally Posted by polyp02

What kind of fish, or shellfish, would I be able to feed shrimps and crabs. I curently feed my fish live brine shrimp but they leave nothing for the shrimp.

Being a scavenger, they'll pretty much eat whatever you throw in the tank. If one is not getting it, the other will. You might have to spend a little extra time to make sure the pet gets fed. Pick & choose.

GL.

[Levito]

Sorry nobody could reply quick enough for you between 10PM and 1AM on a Friday night.
You can feed them most fresh food you get at the store: shrimp, scallops, oysters, clams, etc.
I wouldn't bother with the brine shrimp. There's little to no nutritional value in them, and your fish aren't going to thrive on that alone.

[AaronM]

Hey,
All my crabs and shrimp seem to prefer the frozen food over pellets. The frozen food i feed is brine and mysis shrimp, and marine green herbivore cubes.

Sometimes i'll spot feed my crabs (Xanthidae, Mithrax, Galatheid, and hermit) with shrimp from a turkey blaster or marine green on a skewer.

My snapping shrimp seem to survive, shed, and grow without me really seeing them eat. I suspect they grab leftovers. I've squirted their haunts with shrimp before... dunno if they got it.

HTH!

[Chris27]

I find it better to allow my inverts to scavenge as they would in nature, thus I don't spot feed them, after all that's why I have them in there in the first place.

[polyp02]

Originally Posted by Chris27

I find it better to allow my inverts to scavenge as they would in nature, thus I don't spot feed them, after all that's why I have them in there in the first place.

I have been doing this but they will prefer the baby corals first before scavenging on the sand.

I guess posting something late at night was a bad idea, but it was on a friday. ???

[Chris27]

Originally Posted by polyp02

I have been doing this but they will prefer the baby corals first before scavenging on the sand.

I guess posting something late at night was a bad idea, but it was on a friday. ???

Some reefers, myself not included, have a life outside of their tanks!

What type of inverts do you have tearing up the corals? Cleaner shrimp and most hermits are about as safe as they can be, do you perhaps have a peppermint that's going after some frogspawn?

[Jstdv8]

Originally Posted by chris27

some reefers, myself not included, have a life outside of their tanks!

lucky!

[cloak]

In the bottle? JK.

[AaronM]

For me, alot of crabs aren't in the tank for the purpose of scavenging, rather they're in there because i find them interesting. As some of them are large, and don't come across the myriad of organisms they would happen upon in nature, i find it better to ocasionally spot feed them. I think if i keep my xanthidae well fed then their nightly search for food becomes less urgent.

Its very staifying to watch a crab snatch food off the scewer and bundle it up around its mouth.

I guess most of my crabs get a treat like this about once every 2 weeks...as if they've come across a dead fish in the wild or som'n...

[Chris27]

Come to think of it, I do have a cleaner shrimp that jumps right in the middle of a Seabae and wrestles food from it.....brave little shrimp if you ask me.