Food, feeding schedules, biofilm, and balanced nutrition.
Yes. Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp.) will settle on a piece of blanched spinach and work it over, and nothing in the published evidence says the leaf itself poisons them. The catch isn’t the spinach. It’s that these shrimp are fine…
Baby Sulawesi shrimp eat what the adults eat: the living film of algae, diatoms and bacteria that grows over rock, glass and filter surfaces. Nothing published measures what a newly hatched Sulawesi shrimp actually takes, so the useful answer is…
Yes, Sulawesi shrimp will climb onto a piece of blanched vegetable and work at it, and there is nothing wrong with offering one. What they take off it is mostly the soft surface material, not the plant fiber underneath. That…
Yes. Sulawesi shrimp will graze spirulina, and nothing about them makes it a strange food. These lake Caridina spend their day scraping biofilm, aufwuchs and algae off rock. Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) reaches the tank as a dried powder or pressed…
Yes, but only one kind of algae. Sulawesi shrimp graze the thin living film that grows on rock, glass and hardscape, which is mostly diatoms, single-celled algae, bacteria and fine detritus bound together. They don’t touch the algae most keepers…
Less than most keepers expect, and less often than the label on a shrimp food suggests. No feeding ration has been measured and published for Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp. from the Sulawesi lake systems), so there’s no gram figure to…
