Cherry shrimp for food??

[Crispy]

I can get these cherry shrimp by the dozen for a real good price. I was thinking of putting them in my fry tank to scavenge debris and hopefully multiply. Then, I can always have cherry shrimp on hand to feed my frontosas, catfish, and eel.
Are these a good food source for these fish?? They already get 2 types of pellets, earthworms, and frozen shrimp cubes.

[smaug]

How cheap?Cheaper then ghost shrimp?Cherrys are 2-3 bucks each at my lfs,ghosts are 30 cents.To answer your question,yes any fish that will eat a shrimp will love a cherry shrimp and benefit from them as well.

[Adrian]

Cherry shrimp for food?!!? Geez, send some my way. I have none, and would love to get some, but can not find any as one of the best fish stores here went out of buisness.....

[korith]

Well cherry shrimp are prolific breeders. You can get a huge population rather quickly. I'm sure most fish would eat them.

You might want to consider ghost shrimp instead. They are larger in size and are a fair bit cheaper. Many places sell feeder ghost shrimp. Here about $1/dozen.

[Red]

jeez if you are going to feed them to your fish i will take them off you hands and pay for them :)

[btate617]

Throw the cherry shrimp in a 10 gal if you have one avaliable. I bought 20 of them maybe 5-6 months ago, after about 2 months I split them into 2 tanks. I would say I have a good 500-600 by now. every once in awhile I will throw a few into all the tanks for food. Def easy to get a big population in a short time. And I honestly slacked on their tank when it came to water changes and such. Once you get enough you could start selling them, around here they go for about $2.

Brian

[Crispy]

How cheap?Cheaper then ghost shrimp?Cherrys are 2-3 bucks each at my lfs,ghosts are 30 cents.To answer your question,yes any fish that will eat a shrimp will love a cherry shrimp and benefit from them as well.

well, they're $10/doz here, while ghost shrimp are about $4/doz. I think I'll go with the cherry's.

[Crispy]

Throw the cherry shrimp in a 10 gal if you have one avaliable. I bought 20 of them maybe 5-6 months ago, after about 2 months I split them into 2 tanks. I would say I have a good 500-600 by now. every once in awhile I will throw a few into all the tanks for food. Def easy to get a big population in a short time. And I honestly slacked on their tank when it came to water changes and such. Once you get enough you could start selling them, around here they go for about $2.

I have a 20 gallon with some eartheater fry and 4 small calvus. I think they'll do fine in there.