I will feed different foods every day, different foods will have different purposes. Foods that are richer in vegetation like spurinula wafers, mosura specialty CRS food, nisso bee shrimp food, and algae wafers will improve coloring of shrimp. I feed these food on a daily basis. Foods that are richer in meat content like regular tropical fish flakes and crab cuisine will speed up the growth of shrimp. I usually feed these more often when there is a large population of jueviniles and I feed Bioplus the first 5 days after new shrimp are born.
The food I use are all stored in the freezer to keep them fresh as the shrimp do not eat much. I will take out a small portion of each kind, put it in small tubes and leave the rest in the freezer and refill the small tubes whenever I run out.
As for the feeding routine, right now I only have 19 pieces of shrimp in my 20 gallon so I rarely feed them. Since new babies were born 4 days ago, I'm still feeding bioplus daily. before the 10 pieces of shrimp arrived today, I fed probably only once every 3-5 days as there were enough biolfilm and algae on the glass for them to feed off of.
When feeding, I place a large piece of food, on a petri dish I have in the tank and then take out the left over food an hour later. I place a large piece of food in the petri dish so that the shrimp wont be able to carry the food out of the dish. I don't want left over food all over the tank for 2 reasons, the left over food will rot in the aquasoil and shorten the life of the soil, and it is extremely hard to spot and take out the left over food after it is taken out of the petri dish. If the uneaten food in the tank is left there for a long period of time, it will ruin the water quality and cause populations of pests such as hydra, water limpets, planaria and other pests to increase, Usually more than half the food goes to waste.
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