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The new way I feed shrimp
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:05 pm
by LoachOrgy
usually i tear up salad shrimp and toss them in the tank. well after what I tried I am going to use this method everytime now. its so entertaining. i thawed some shrimp in tank water. then slid them on the spoon. layed the spoon down and then this is what happened.
be patient, near the end, you can see spot swimming into his hole between the two pvc pipe openings.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=diXaR2vyDHg
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:38 pm
by Tinman
Looks excellent LO
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:09 pm
by Whitey_MacLeod
Cool
I'm going to have to try my botia with some shrimp now.
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:42 am
by LoachOrgy
yeah it seems like the striata just moved themselves right up to the front of the pecking order now. they eat first everytime. or the clowns are just chickins!
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:13 pm
by Graeme Robson
I've never thought of feeding them that way!
Cool!
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:07 pm
by LoachOrgy
this method is so entertaining. i am getting some really good video of the loaches recently!
glad i tried it! i would suggest it to everyone!
a little off topic
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:59 pm
by doglover_50
quick shrimp feeding question--off topic a bit, sorry. Safety issue.
If I buy a 2 pound bag of pre-cooked frozen shrimp at Safeway, the type that still has tail but has been peeled. The bag from vietnam says ingredients are the shrimp and salt.
If I soak the shrimp to get the salt out, are these safe for the loaches?
I find them yummy yummy.
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:08 pm
by helen nightingale
munch munch slurp slurp
those striata are fat little piggies arent they? lovely
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:19 pm
by LoachOrgy
yeah helen, they are the biggest pigs of them all. you should have seen the biggest ones belly last night. lol...so fat!!!
i use the salad shrimp you find at your local grocery store. i am not sure about the salt content but i add no more than 2 pieces of shrimp during feeding. it hasn't caused me any problems yet. i have been feeding salad shrimp since around march of this year.
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:02 pm
by tariesindanrie
Too funny! It reminds me of lions stripping an antelope carcass or something.
Kate
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:39 pm
by tariesindanrie
I must have really weird clowns. I tried the shrimp-on-the spoon. It is now sitting in the bottom front of the tank, with the clowns lined up against the rear of the tank...staring at it like it's a puzzle. I have a feeling that the fact that the curve of the spoon handle raises it off the floor of the tank a little bit, they can't figure out how to manage it. Ralph, my extra-large pleco, has had a go at it- by positioning himself upside down so that he can rasp away for a few minutes, suctioned to it temporarily- when he loses hold, he gives up and goes back in the cave...I wish I had the camera at home today!
Kate