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The reason I said Chromis is they aren't "feeders" per say but reef fish that just happen to be small and cheap.
Anyway I bought 10 ghost shrimp today for $4. I actually got 18. They're in a bucket with an air pump. I'll feed them marine pellets for a few days then start feeding them. For $4 I might as well just pick up some of these every couple of weeks. I'd even consider seeing if they can sell me 100s or 1000 for cheaper next time I hatch because as far as I can tell they're nearly identical to shore shrimp. Both are of the Palaemonetes genus and the shore shrimp are really brackish so I don't think it would make much difference feeding them the freshwater type long term. After all my fish and corals eat PE mysis almost exclusively and they are freshwater mysis which are far larger and more nutritious then marine mysids like what our baby cuttlefish eat.
Anyway I bought 10 ghost shrimp today for $4. I actually got 18. They're in a bucket with an air pump. I'll feed them marine pellets for a few days then start feeding them. For $4 I might as well just pick up some of these every couple of weeks. I'd even consider seeing if they can sell me 100s or 1000 for cheaper next time I hatch because as far as I can tell they're nearly identical to shore shrimp. Both are of the Palaemonetes genus and the shore shrimp are really brackish so I don't think it would make much difference feeding them the freshwater type long term. After all my fish and corals eat PE mysis almost exclusively and they are freshwater mysis which are far larger and more nutritious then marine mysids like what our baby cuttlefish eat.