Maybe once a week with some of the fancy stuff a friend donated to me. Otherwise just an algae wall feeds them
My Cherrys
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I agree with you and would like to add, having a well seasoned tank with good plant growth is key to being able to get away with less feeding. I feed my shrimp 2 to three times a week, I believe that the increased feeding helps them when their in breeding mode.
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When I bought my shrimp they were allready saddled and within the first month of them being I’m my aquarium I had 2 buried females. After about 2 weeks later there were little fry swimming around the tank. The baby’s are very small and translucent at first. Having java moss or any moss is very important for the fry to feed on and hide in until there comfortable enough to swim around. Once you have baby’s it’s important to increase the feeding so they get a good fighting chance to make it. I didn’t have any loses in fry all my baby’s made it from birth until now and I now have some sadled baby’s getting ready...
Hey guys and gals, just got done with my weekly maintenance. The plants were all pearling after I fertilized the tank, so I snapped some shots to share. Enjoy 
Wow. That’s beautiful. What do you feed the shrimp? I just recently inherited a hand full of these guys, and now I have close to 40 in a little 5g with tons of moss and almond leaves.
Thanks. Shrimp will eat anything really I do feed them a shrimp pellet, but for at least 6 months I was feeding them some extra bug bites I had on hand. Java moss is excellent for shrimplets. I have noticed in my one year of keeping cherrys that it’s important to feed small particles for the baby’s as the adult shrimp will steal the food from the baby’s.
This is the food I’ve been feeding. I recently setup the worlds smallest racking system of 5 total gallons. I’m going to try selective breeding for fun. Let’s see you setup
Matteus
this forum is lacking in shrimp lovers. 
Tx deadly.This is the food I’ve been feeding. I recently setup the worlds smallest racking system of 5 total gallons. I’m going to try selective breeding for fun. Let’s see you setup
I love the mini rack system. You have a real knack for making your tanks look spectacular @TheWolfman.
I will have to look into some shrimp wafers. Right now they are sharing a home with my red dragon plakat so what she doesn’t eat, I suppose they will pick up. Also I have 3 different types of moss in there. I have not had time to get a nice scape setup running, just bare bottom with lots of moss atm. I got the first batch last weekend and this weekend picked up a bag of cherries for $18 but there seemed to be 30 plus in there. I find them fascinating, I wasn’t expecting to just stare at them for hrs.
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I will have to look into some shrimp wafers. Right now they are sharing a home with my red dragon plakat so what she doesn’t eat, I suppose they will pick up. Also I have 3 different types of moss in there. I have not had time to get a nice scape setup running, just bare bottom with lots of moss atm. I got the first batch last weekend and this weekend picked up a bag of cherries for $18 but there seemed to be 30 plus in there. I find them fascinating, I wasn’t expecting to just stare at them for hrs.
