Market shrimp verification...

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Jack Dempsey
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Okay so I'm needing a bit of clarification on market shrimp for my 2 arowanas roughly 12 and 10 inches or so.
Since I got them, 1 as a 3-incher... I've been feeding tetra JumboMin floating sticks, small to medium sized minnow feeders, small gold fish feeders and market shrimp.
They eat very well and don't turn their nose to any type of food.
My question is. ...when you say "Market Shrimp" are you talking about the red colored shrimp meat that actually looks tasty that's in the deli/frozen fish section of like winco or the grey raw shrimp?
I've been feeding the red colored shrimp and though it looks raw and smell fishy it says it's cooked... no batter of course just says cooked....
I don't eat seafood myself so I was unaware of the raw grey stuff....
Have I been feeding the wrong style shrimp..?
Thanks
 
Fish couldn't find cooked shrimp in wild, they prefer uncooked raw shrimp. Let go with grey white raw shrimp.
 
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Shrimp (and lobsters) are normally greyish-brown inside. They only go reddish-pink like that when they're cooked, and you want the greyish-brown ones. The only crustaceans that should be pink when fed are krill, they're like that alive.
 
That's what I figured as soon as I saw the grey/white ones..
So they must be getting their nutrition from the sticks and the goldfish then...
At least it's not harmful to them, but they will be getting the raw from now on.
As for the goldfish...about how many small to medium sized feeders should a 12 in silver arowana be eating in one feeding?
I usually get 20 to 30 of them a week and they are gone in 2 days between the two aros.
Then I put about 40 little minnows or tuffy feeders in there per week to feed the bichir, severums and a huge feeder that didn't get eaten once and has gone ridiculously large...he gets flakes too he just eats the other small fish because he can. I think I've even seen the brown knife eat a tuffy once or twice. ..
 
I recommend against using feeders whenever possible. If they take pellets why not just feed them those? It's more nutritious and less risk of disease.
 
I'd take frozen foods over live as meaty foods. Thats what i feed my oscar.
 
If you really have to use feeder goldfish. Quarantine it and stuff them with pellets before feeding. Since they're eating pellets already I would just forget about the feeders completely.
 
Ok, thanks for the tips. And as I've read in other threads feed them all they want until they start to slow down and then split that into two feeding?
 
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