how do you feed your RTC's with shrimp?

rook45

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with shell. but i don't have one anymore
 

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pix;1348986; said:
how do you feed your RTC's with shrimp? With shell or deshelled?
50/50 here also. I find that when you start to feed bigger cats dozens of shrimp they will digest the insides of the shells and the shells will compact in the stomach and creat a blockage. It's too hard for the to digest the shells when there are so many and they might get sick in the water.
 

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pix;1348986; said:
how do you feed your RTC's with shrimp? With shell or deshelled?
deshell and make smooth slice and rip up the poop "pipe-line"..:D
 

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mine gets around 7 whole shrimp a night, i leave half a shell on 4..make sure you take the tail spike off if your going to feed the whole shell.
 
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