GSP eating Shrimp?

aquatnk77 · Post by **aquatnk77** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:09 am

Can feeding a GSP the tails of a supermarket bought frozen shrimp keep their teeth down?

-Kevin

Post by **RTR** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:51 am

IME, shell0-on shrimp may help, but they are not sufficient without other, harder materials such as bivalves.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:17 pm

When we have shrimp cocktail in this family (especially around the Holidays) it is a given that all the tails go into a cup for the puffers. Although uncooked is best, the partial feeding of cooked won't hurt my guys.

aquatnk77 · Post by **aquatnk77** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:55 pm

Do any of you know where to get feeder snails?

fvbump82 · Post by **fvbump82** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:21 pm

I haev fed my GSP uncooked shrimp. It loves them, but they offer no help in maintaining its teeth. So you must include something harder now and then. IMO get Malasian Trumpet Snails, raise them is a separate tank and feed the young to your GSP when the young are about the size of a pencil lead. I feed my GSP the young snails using a long focepts (tweezers), holding the snail by one end so the GSP can see it and be interested. It works.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:30 pm

aquatnk77 wrote:Do any of you know where to get feeder snails?

Look in our Classifieds or Ebay.

J-P · Post by **J-P** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:41 pm

or aquabid.

Mac Myers · Post by **Mac Myers** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:42 pm

Around here I have 2 Petsmarts that always have snails in their tanks that they give me for free. Pond, Ramshorn, MTS. They are such drones that they can't do anything about it except scoop them out. I even offered to give them an Assassin as a demonstration and they "couldn't".
Oh well.... nice to have a source if I miscalculate on my requirements.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:10 am

+1, PetSmart always seems to be overrun with them.

hazima · Post by **hazima** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:05 pm

+1 to petsmart as well, they have 3 or 4 tanks connected and have holes for water, so they can't help that the snail jump tanks. Once one has um they all have um

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