Can any of my fish eat this?Can any of my fish ..

[Ron9]

I ended up with a bunch of fry about two months ago. Read somewhere they would like shrimp. Well not being the brightest bulb in the fish tank - I bought some. When I took a look at the contents I knew I had goofed. The shrimp is small but looked too big for those little fry.

Fast forward (after hours and hours and hours of reading - not about this baby shrimp but new guy fish stuff) I feel that my fish would/do like variety (I give them a little bit of freeze dried blood worms and they love it).

This is Tetra BabyShrimp “Sun Dried Treat” it is smallish but has the shell (which is softish). I did not real the label when I got it at WallyWorld it was the only thing they had that was shrimp.

My fish
55 Gallon
1 4 inch Rainbow Shark - male (seems to only like algae)
2 Rosy Barbs (male)
1 Pl*co about 4 inch

I have three LyreTail Mollies in other tanks

Can any of my 7 fish eat this without hurting them? I guess I am only worried about the shells - soft but. The mfg claims good roughage. “This treat is ideal for all large ornamental fish” well ok ...... but .... but


Thanks


Ron

 

[cometcattle]

I bought Tetra OceanPlankton freeze-dryed treat. My fish wont go near it. It wont harm any of your fish, but they might not eat it.

 

[Ron9]

cometcattle:

Thank you for your reply.

Fish do have a way of passing on some would be food. I read about a guy peeling some frozen peas. I peeled two peas and cut them in half and dropped 1 (two halves) into the tank with the two Rosy Barbs and one Rainbow Shark. They all three enjoyed the treat. The two LyreTail Mollies in another tank totally passed on the opportunity and I removed it the next day.

I think I will try to really crush up a very small amount (of this BabySchrimp) and see if they like it. It may not “crush” as the shell part is very flexible.

I wonder what is up with that topic tittle field. I typed it - the text was invisible (to me at least) - after I deleted the invisible text I retyped it and presto - the first one showed up also