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Shrimp Food 🦐 10 Incredible Foods I Feed My Dwarf Shrimp!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, we're diving into the world of essential shrimp food! Shrimp are fascinating creatures that play a crucial role as detritivores, which are a type of omnivore known for their "eat almost anything" attitude. They chow down on things like algae, decaying plants, leftover food, and more. But relying solely on scavenging isn't the best for their health. To keep them thriving, it's important to give them a diverse diet.
As a shrimp enthusiast myself, I'll walk you through the various foods I feed my shrimp throughout the week. I've tested these foods over time and I'm sharing my insights with you. Keep in mind, there are other brands out there, so use what works for you.
Here's what's on the menu:
1. BacterAE by GlasGarten: This micro powder is like a nutritional boost for your tank. It adds microorganisms, amino acids, and enzymes, enhancing water quality and promoting biofilm growth - a shrimp favourite. I sprinkle a bit in my tanks a couple of times a week.
2. Shrimp Baby by GlasGarten: A powdered food designed for shrimplets. Packed with protein, vitamins, and Omega 3 fatty acids, it's perfect for the energy they need for molting. This food forms a layer on tank surfaces, ensuring shrimplets get their meal.
3. Mineral Junkie by GlasGarten: Soft pellet food loaded with essential minerals. It supports molting, shell formation, and slow growth for snails and other invertebrates. Just one or two pellets a week is enough.
4. Shrimp Dinner by GlasGarten: A well-balanced pellet packed with nutrients for healthy development, vibrant colors, and successful molting. This is a mainstay in my shrimp diet rotation.
I also share some tips on feeding other foods like powdered fish flakes, frozen brine shrimp, and Hikari Algae Wafers. Plus, I have a surprising bonus food but you'll have to watch the video to find out what it is! It's a superfood rich in carbs, minerals, and protein. A treat your shrimp, snails, and herbivorous fish will adore.
Remember, moderation is key. Overfeeding can lead to water pollution. Observe your shrimp's health and behaviour to ensure they're thriving. And don't forget, researching your shrimp species is crucial for their wellbeing.
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What type of shrimp do you keep and what do you feed them? Let me know down below. If you found this video helpful, please consider subscribing: www.youtube.com/@shrimplycanadian?sub_confirmation=1
This was very helpful. Your videos are clear and to the point. I have neocaridina shrimp. I feed mine a varied diet. I think I might invest in some Shrimp Dinner and nano blocks after watching your video.
Thank you very much 😊 I'm glad you found my videos helpful.
I mix the powder foods first in a bottle with water and shake thoroughly. After that you can poor it in a good dose in your tanks. That way it wil be better spread over the whole tank and all the (baby) shrimp can find it easy.
I use the AE and I feed Shrimp King. I started with the sample pack to figured out which ones my shrimp love the most and thats what I feed them.
I will have to try Shrimp King.
What does it mean blanched duckweed, I am intrigued
Take some Duckweed and boil it in some water (I usually use dechlorinated water). Boil it for approximately 2-3 minutes, scoop it out and put it in a bowl of cold dechlorinated water so that it cools down quickly. You will notice that the duckweed will sink to the bottom like in my video. After a few minutes of it being cooled down, scoop it out and put it into your tank.
Thank you for your advice , I been keeping Shrimp for about 3 years now and I use Glas Garten products as well , but always looking for any other good source of food for them.
You're welcome :)
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I have a 4g tank that i wanna get some shrimp & snails , i want to have 5 shrimps of each kind or should i get a couple of the same breed ?
If you'd like to breed them, then one colour is recommended. If you just want to have a skittles tank with various colours, it doesn't hurt either; I'm building one as well so that I can place my less coloured ones in there from other tanks.
I also use the GlasGarten line of foods that you mention. I have a ten gallon tank that has a young colony of Neocaridina, currently at 120 - 150 shrimp. Although I love the powdered food, the hardest thing for me is not to overfeed. I have a population of ostracods and use that as an indicator that I'm feeding the correct amount. If the ostracod population blooms, I cut back on the amount of food. Also, I don't use the scoop that GlasGarden includes in the jars of food. I picked up some micro spoons and I use those for feeding the powders. For me, that's easier to get the smaller portions. Also, when feeding the Shrimp Dinner2 and Mineral Junkie Foods, I cut up the pellets into smaller bits to help insure that more shrimp get food. My shrimp seem to be very aggressive feeders. Do you have an actual feeding schedule? For myself, I don't have a formal schedule but I insure that I feed Mineral Junkie once a week. I also rotate the GlasGarten line with Repashy Community Plus. My shrimp love Repashy and since I "make" it myself, I feel like I'm giving them a treat. Thanks for this video, its the first of your videos that I've watched.
Thank you for the compliment! I don't really have a feeding schedule as pretty much all of my shrimp are in community fish tanks and so they get fed almost every other day (fish food). They do get the Dinner2 once or twice a week and Mineral Junkie once a week. As for the BacterAe and Shrimp Baby, I only throw in very small quantities of it once or twice a week, primarily also because I have Bamboo Shrimp that will benefit from the floating food particles. Dinner2 makes my shrimp go crazy, Mineral Junkie not so much. You're right about the scoops though, they are too big and smaller ones are required. I noticed that when feeding BacterAe a lot, my tank got string algae as there were too many nutrients in the water.
Snow balls are so different
Mine will ignore everything for well over a week. Then go crazy for mineral junkie and destroy
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@@mxbenard9134 I'm just wondering if they are ignoring because they are being overfed? Unless there's already a lot of biofilm in the tank that they couldn't be bothered.
do you have a brand recommendation for micro spoons? I have thought about purchasing some glas garden products after adding some additional shrimp and would like to encourage breeding
@@varodragon14 - I just ordered those mini spoons from Etsy. I think they were in Aquarium Supplies, but I can't find my previous orders on Etsy at the moment.
The foods you quoted may be available in your locality,province,district, state or even country. But please suggest natural conditions from products which can easily be collected and prepared at home for nutritional feeding to shrimps grown by hobbyists in India ....
Check out this playlist on foods and see if the one on Duckweed and Biofilm help: th-cam.com/video/XDydlTz2Qak/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6ps5UzBKMgUI6eQE
I powder the fish flakes
My neocaridina shrimp eat the leftover bloodworms in my 20 gal.
Nice big tank. Community tank I take it? What colour are your shrimp?
@@shrimplycanadian yes a community tank, my shrimp are blue, kind of a low grade but I don't really care about that.
My shrimp ate leftover floting pellets
I am relatively new to keeping shrimp, the petstore just recommended some sinking pellets named “Shrimp cuisine” by hikari? Have you ever heard of this brand and is it adequate?
Hikari is a good brand. I use their algae wafers but I've never used Shrimp Cuisine. Based on the reviews though, people seem to give it a 4.5/5 so give it a shot. Provide it to them in small amounts to see if they go for it. Also, let me know how it smells as a few say it smells pretty bad so seal the bag immediately.
It most definitely smells pretty bad
Good to know.
Im trying not to jump up and down with excitement, blanched duck weed? I will give it a go
Hikari shrimp cuisine bee pollen Hikari algae wafers tropical fish flakes bacter ae and I’m trying shrimp dinner out for the first time I have blue dream shrimp from Toronto Canada
Is Dwarf Gourami and Golden Algae Eater (young ones) safe with shrimp
The Golden Algae Eater should be able to get along with shrimp while it's young as it's a herbivore. I have never kept one but they do get up to 12" and could potentially eat baby shrimp accidently. I had Dwarf Gouramis with shrimp before but it depends on the fish as they are semi-aggressive similar to Bettas. If you plan to keep them with shrimp, maybe keep it with something around the same size like Amanos or Bamboo Shrimp as Red Cherry Shrimp could easily get attacked by them.
Thank you Sir.., yes I'll keep with Bamboo shrimp only
You're welcome :)
Wow this is very helpful thank you! What is the spoon you talk about? Teaspoon? Sorry for all the questions I bombard you with I am interested in the hobby and I am a beginner
If you are referring to the GlasGarten products, they provide a small scoop in the container. Depending on how many shrimp you have, don't go by their measurement. You actually need a lot less.
@@shrimplycanadian ohh I got you I didn’t know that lol
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Indeed.
Can you use other floating plants as food? I know Salvinia is safe for shrimp. Anyone know about Frogbit and Red Root?
I've never tried them but it could be because when these plants die, they get eaten anyways.
Do shrimp normally eat all the pellet type food? I add 2 pellets every 2 days and noticed theres quite abit leftover the last 2 times Ive fed them..but theres only 5 shrimp. They ate earlier this week too but never finished it all as well.
I would do one pellet and see how that goes. There is also biofilm, algae and other organic matter in the tank. Also, there are only 5 shrimp.
@@shrimplycanadian will try that thanks
Can you use the Shrimp dinner as a substitute for hikari algae wafer to feed amano since it also feed neocardina or is hikari is specifically for amano other bigger creatures
Yes you can. In fact I tend to feed mine more of the Shrimp Dinner than the wafers. I use the wafers primarily for my Hillstream Loaches and Otocinclus Catfish.
How often do you feed ur shrimp? Once a week on all 4 products or do you rotate them?
I feed my shrimp 3 times a week (Mon, Wed & Fri or Sat). I usually rotate between BacterAE and Shrimp Baby as well as add Shrimp Dinner. Once a week, I'll throw in Mineral Junkie instead of Shrimp Dinner. As for the blanched items, that is also once a week. Most of my shrimp are in tanks with fish so they benefit from the fish food as well which is fed 3 to 4 times a week as well.
@@shrimplycanadian thank you I just ordered all 4 of the products
is there a way to join the discord server without verifying with a phone number? to feed powdered fish flakes or other powdered food, what kind of spoon do you recommend as to not overfeed? I have 10 shrimp now in the tank :)
Try now as I disabled the phone verification (discord.gg/fP5faTbr). I usually just grab a pinch between my aquarium tweezers or fingers.
@@shrimplycanadian thanks it worked!
Can I replace junkie with hakari crab cuisine since I already have it and I wanna know if I can replace it with the hakari cuisine but I will buy the other three since they sound important 😊
Just for some context I already have hakari algae wafers ( bought for merited snails still haven’t seen them eat it ) and I am buying the nano blocks since I wanna travel a lil bit and shrimp baby Bacter e and shrimp dinner are also on my list and finally I am buying some leafs for them (katapa) btw I am buying these from amazin
Yes, you should be able to give them the crab cuisine. Just keep an eye out and see that they are eating it. I find my shrimp are iffy with Mineral Junkie, some love it and some tend to ignore it. Check my Amazon Store in my profile as I do have quite a few of the products you mentioned listed in there.
Oh ok great i have had mixxed results with crab cuisine my shrimp would eat it when it passes by sometimes other times it would rot and i would take it out but i have a question so do i need shrimp baby? I was thinking and wondering if i don’t feed shrimp baby would they be fine😊
Thank u for the info btw
@@bentleytelles7295 You're welcome ☺
Any thoughts on snowflake food (soy hull)?
I just got a packet of it and will be testing it out soon. I know other shrimp keepers use it.
@@shrimplycanadian curious how it will go for you! I have tried it but my shrimp don’t seem that interested in it, maybe because they are full on other foods already.