Feeding carpet

[Loganeri]

I've had a red carpet haddoni for 4.5 months now. It's doing great, eating, sticky, mouth is closed. I've been feeding frozen fresh shrimp because I've read instances where a bad silverside made for early demise. When feeding the shrimp, I thaw and de-shell. My questions are, is it necessary to take the shell off the shrimp? I know it's not done that way in the wild. Are there beneficial vitamins within the shell? Thoughts are greatly appreciated.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Think you could leave the shell on.

I personally feed all of mine krill, and while a lot smaller then shrimp, I still leave those shells on each time I fed (( which is every 2-3 weeks ))

 

[Haddonisreef]

Spot on Toddrtrex! I feed mine muscles and clam so they are already deshelled. We need another Haddoni carpet thread!

 

[Toddrtrex]

I have to agree. And I think I need another tank, 4 Haddonis might be too many.

 

[OrionN]

Mine carpets eat everything. Shell shrimps get spit out devoid of flesh about a day or two later. Mine also live under the return pump outlet, occasionally one of the snail get blown off of the return and end up in the carpet, it is the also eaten with shell spit out a few days later. I of the catch hermit crabs along shore here in Corpus and feed them to my carpet whole as is and the carpet anemone would have no problem eaten these either.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Good point about the snail shells, I have seen too many being expelled -- just an empty shell, no snail. One of mine even ate a Queen Conch without issue.