Feeding rics

[kevo66]

I want to try feeding my rics brine shrimp but Im not sure what shrimp to buy, do you guys just get the frozen brine and defrost?

How do you then feed em, with tweezers? I take it you turn the powerheads off?

 

[kiknchikn]

According to just about everything I've read adult brine shrimp have almost no nutritional value. I'd go with either baby brine shrimp or go with mysis shrimp. Rics (along with just about every other critter in the tank) also seem to like cyclop-eeze.

I use tweezers to feed mysis with the powerheads off. Rics are very slow eaters and some don't have a strong feeding response and don't wrap around their food real well.

 

[jerrym21]

Ric's eat just about anything.

 

[kiknchikn]

^^

So true! They're not picky one bit.

 

[kevo66]

Ah, gotcha, sorry. I meant mysis, was a long day yesterday, I will pick up some cyclopeze too

 

[puddldude]

I feed mine shrimp from my local grocery store and have done so for years. I have fed both raw and cooked. I cut them into pieces and freeze them and when feeding time comes, I thaw them and feed

 

[plummike]

everything and everyone likes shrinp. I feed mine Cyclo and whatever the fish get.

 

[kevo66]

how often are we feeding them?

 

[kiknchikn]

Depends on what kind of filtration you have I suppose. If you have skimmer rated for larger than your tank you can probably get away with feeding them a couple mysis each every day, but if you dont and you rely on water changes and macro algae like I do then once a week is pushing it.

 

[kevo66]

I just water change, got no macro yet so I guess once every other for me!