What Do You Feed Your Freshwater Shrimp?

[Tien]

I am trying to find a diet for my shrimp to encourage breeding. I have some specialty shrimp foods and I boil spinach for them. What other plant leaves will they eat besides boiled spinach? Any recommendations for a great food?

 

[Fat Homer]

From what i've read and heard, to encourage breeding its more about having the correct temps, and clean water more so than the types of food fed...

Foods that are advertised to help promote breeding from my understanding is that they promote the shrimp to shed their shells faster, which in turn releases some chemical signal or something that gets the shrimps ready to breed...

 

[Koji]

Too cold or too warm the shrimp will not breed. Apart from the right water parameters of course. I set mine at 25'C and so far breeding is pretty constant.

 

[Tien]

Good to know. I may need to keep the tank a little cooler as it is at around 82'F. Do you know of any foods that would be a good snack for them just for the heck of it? They love the spinach and arugula but I am curious to know if any other boiled leaves would be healthy for them.

 

[Fat Homer]

Some shrimp pellets contain i think higher levels of calcium which is supposed to promote thicker shells...


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[Fishoreel]

My cherry shrimp really like small pieces of boiled carrots and peas for a treat every once in a while.

 

[sharonluvd]

what kind of shrimp are you trying to breed?

 

[Gardian]

Kale seems to be popular with the shrimp. Although kale is often heavily sprayed with pesticides… so if you aren’t getting it at a farmers market where you know what’s been done with it you might want to go organic. It also seems to depends on thecolor of shrimp. My cherry seem to eat anything, my orange are a little more picky and my blue are very picky.

 

[brad31]

I have my tank at 76 and they breed like nuts, they really don't breed much above 80 degrees, they mainly eat algae wafers and this meat dust stuff i got from an owner at my LFS and occasionally ill treat them with blanched spinach

 

[bbortko]

I keep cherry shrimp in my planted tanks and feed them absolutely nothing. All nourishment comes as byproducts of the plants and uneaten fish food. Temps are 75-78. My 5g population hovers around 2 dozen. My 36g has 3-4 dozen and every couple of months I find atleast 4 dozen in my 2217.