Supplimental Food For Cleaner Crew

[Weiser]

Suplimental Food For Cleaner Crew

Whats a good food suppliment that I can add to my tank for a cleaner crew the are starting to run out of food . Ia lso have a pepermint shrimp I got today the LFS told me that I dont have to feed him but I dont realy like that advice is there something that I can give him also daily. thanks

 

[wrightme43]

freeze dried krill if you want to. stars, shrimp, hermits, nassirius snails and most other stuff seem to eat it well. Steve

 

[bc_slc]

agreed. My cleaner shrimp went after flake, brine, pretty much anything.

 

[NaH2O]

Weiser that is a good question. My peppermint shrimp will go after food in the water column from feeding the fish. They do like mysis. What part of your clean-up crew are you concerned with. What species of snails and how many do you have in the tank? Let's take a look and see what the load looks like. Also, are you currently feeding the tank with anything?....the shrimp may be seen grabbing food.

Its tough when early on in a tank's life we put in a large number of clean-up critters in order to help with our algae blooms, but this food source will die down, and some of the crew may die. There will always be some growth that we don't necessarily see, but the snails will be busy chowing on.

 

[Weiser]

I bought a clean up crew for a 30 gallon tank My tank is 70 gal with 125 pounds LR
Hermits Blue,and Scarlet
Margaritas
turbos
and one emeral crab in the refugium as well as a little bit of the clean up crew went in the refugium
I am curently not feeding the tank anything I went to the LFS and got a small pack of Sliver sides and put 1/4 of one in the tank to feed the two Pepermint Shrimp Until in the future I get some fish and then they can have the leftovers.

 

[MCSInc]

Weiser,

I looked at your Photo gallery and it looks like you have plenty of rock for them to graze on. Dont forget that overfeeding can be a real problem.

Hermits and such will go after almost anything. I feed some pelleted food occasionally and everything runs out to grab some. Everything turns out for lunch, not just the fish. I spot feed and that includes everything from corals to starfish.

If you have snails that you are concerned about I would get some "seaweed salad" or something like that (dried seaweed) to feed. You can put it on a clip, pin the edge of it down with a rock or tear off small chuncks and manually feed them to turbos or other snails. (This is very entertaining for the kids) The turbo snails will always accept a small piece of seaweed salad - just hold it flat on the glass in front of them until they have a good grip then sit back and watch it disappear.

Good luck and most of all - enjoy.

Candy

 

[snobanker]

My cleaner shrimp goes nuts for food when I feed my fish too, at least when he's not pouncing on my yellow tang