Quote Originally Posted by Pippin View Post
She will gladly stay fat and happy off of the poor diet of frozen bloodworms and sinking shrimp pellets, but when I try to give her reptomin or anything else nutritionally beneficial she will refuse to eat it and lose weight until I give her the frozen junkfood again. I am afraid she as gotten spoiled off of the frozen cubed food, she also won't eat anything that floats. (I can't find sinking reptomin) Shes not even fond of the pelleted food right now (but I think that is because she doesn't shovel it into her mouth as well with her hurt hand) So is there anything I can entice her with that will fill the gap in her diet right now? She loves frozen cubed food, it has to sink, she will eat live things, but I think it will be difficult for her to hunt right now.


One more very distant future kind of thing, has anybody tried keeping large bamboo shrimp with clawed frogs before? They are filter feeders that clean the water, and seem too large to be eaten (at least by juveniles) and they have no interest (nor capability) of harming the frogs. I am just curious if they can live with clawed frogs, or at least if anybody has tried.
I had the same issue with my ACFs before. Mine were also used to frozen bloodworms and did not show interest in Reptomin. Then I fed Hikari Tropical SINKING CARNIVORE PELLETS (that had the stronger odor than Reptomin) to them. Finally they got used to artificial diet. Since then I have fed only pellets to them. After my ACFs got used to the sinking pellets, I stopped feeding for a few days and started feeding Reptomin to them. They are now used to floating pellets such as reptomin.

As for shrimps, I keep fresh water shrimp, much smaller than bamboo shrimp, in my ACF tanks. They are filter feeder for sure. Mine are much smaller than ACFs, but since they can move quickly, they are rarely eaten by my ACFs. Also, I keep tiny (5-10mm) fresh water isopods in the tank. Isopods are so tiny they are much more efficient filter feeders than my shrimps. Since both my shrimps and isopods breed often, they never die out even if some of them are eaten by my ACFs.