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Would it be okay to feed calvus ghost shrimp? How big would the calvus have to be?
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I'm sure it wouldn't hurt. I put some ghost shrimp in my tank once and they eventually disappeared and I have 4 Calvus. My largest one is only about 3 inches. I assumed the calvus got to em but I never saw them eat one. They are micropredators so shrimp would fall into that category. Just put the shrimp in your tank and if the calvus don't eat them you have a cleaning crew.
My neolamps go wild for them. I have never seen any ill effect, but I did read somewhere that they were not ideal for Tangs. The notion goes that the shrimp are raised in soft, low pH water and that for fish accustomed to hard, high pH water, consuming something with that much % of mass at such a different pH & hardness could lead to shock. Again, I've never seen any problems...to the contrary it seems to be a good spawning trigger food for me... but the pH and hardness explanation seemed reasonable to me, so to be on the safe side I don't feed them very often anymore.
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