feeding fire shrimp and hermits?

markoantoniojr · #1 08/20/2007, 12:57 PM

got a fire shrimp what do they eat?
i also i have 4 hermits what do they eat?
i bought zoos and one hermit like to hang out on top of it is that ok?

cloak · #2 08/20/2007, 01:20 PM

They will pretty much eat anything you feed them. Flakes, frozen, etc. The hermit being more of an opportunist. A snail might go missing every now and then.
The zoos will be ok.

Ty1e · #3 08/20/2007, 01:25 PM

they are all scavengers and if you have any fish, the shrimp and hermits will eat the left over food, but there is shrimp food out there. as long as the hermet is not causeing problems for the zoo's you should be fine.

kiknchikn · #4 08/20/2007, 01:36 PM

Better get used to your hermits being on your corals. That seems to be what they do best... ticking off corals by crawling on them.

ChrisKil · #5 08/20/2007, 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by cloak
...The hermit being more of an opportunist. A snail might go missing every now and then...

I would make sure there are extra empty shells for the hermits to upgrade to. This will help ensure they don't take a shell from your snails.

rbtwo4 · #6 08/20/2007, 02:38 PM

Got shrimps & hermits & snails & zoos. No problems at all. No missing snails sn missing zoo's nada. Perfect harmony in my tank. Oh I do have scarlet hermit crabs which I read were good to have with snails and so far so good.