Pellets inside shrimp?

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ElectricBlueSeanBurch

ElectricBlueSeanBurch

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So my eel has become super picky and only eats fresh gulf shrimp. I don't have a problem with this as I get my local seafood pretty cheap. However I know only eating shrimp means he isn't on the best diet, nutritionally speaking. Now that my my eel is 18"(ish) the pieces he eats are finally big enough to insert pellets into the shrimp pieces. So I take a skewer and put a hole through each piece and then I stick 2 hikari mini cichlid pellets inside them. My question is is this actually worth it? Is there something better I could be doing? My brother also used this same technique for his Pbass.
 
Personally I like the use of vitamins rather than just stuffing the shrimp with pellets. I think you'll get more beneficial stuff into the eel using vitamins rather than surgically inserting pellets into shrimp.

BTW, what type of eel is it?
 
just incase u havent tried fire eels will usually take ghost shrimp blood worms and and some eventually pellets. i use to load my krill with pellets for my datnoid. what foods have you tried? vitamin dips are useful for sw eels and other real eels. spiney eels can have a balanced nutrition from frozen foods.
 
woofy said:
just incase u havent tried fire eels will usually take ghost shrimp blood worms and and some eventually pellets. i use to load my krill with pellets for my datnoid. what foods have you tried? vitamin dips are useful for sw eels and other real eels. spiney eels can have a balanced nutrition from frozen foods.
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Well I refuse to feed any live. He used to eat bloodworms, red wigglers, and nightcrawlers. But on day I gave him fresh shrimp and now that is all he eats. If I feed him anything else he chews it up then spits it back out and swims back to the surface looking for shrimp. He is growing pretty fast on the shrimp, he eats 2-3 medium shrimp every other day. And I have been loading the shrimp for about 2 weeks now.
 
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