Snail owner getting shrimp for 1st time

[Snailetta]

I'm getting 5 cherry shrimp the end of this week. I already have mystery snails and ramshorns in a planted tank that the shrimp will be living with. I'm wondering if they will eat the same food my snails eat? I feed them a variety of veggies--squash, carrots, romaine, collard greens, frozen spirulina, and... shrimp pellets? Will this be okay for shrimp or should I also get some special food for them?

[picotank]

My cherry's eat veggies like peas, carrots, and corn.
If your tank is established then they should be fine in my book. They will eat the bio film from your plants leaves.

[Snailetta]

Well, it's sort of established. I just upgraded from a 5g to a 10g. I used the same filter, plants & rocks, and most of the same tank water. The substrate is new (Flourite).

[ravensgate]

They should be fine with biolfilm and what you are feeding the snails. Shrimp eat their own kind (dead...at least, most of the time) as well as dead snails and dead fish. As a matter of fact, toss a cocktail shrimp in with them in they go nuts.

[Snailetta]

Thanks! I think I'll mix some of the old substrate in with the Flourite too - just to help with the cycle and increase substrate depth.

[Kunsthure]

Do NOT toss a cocktail shrimp in there.

Your shrimp will love what you're feeding the snails. You won't need anything else, especially if you have some moss for shrimplets.

-Lisa

[ravensgate]

I don't personally use cocktail shrimp myself, but a lot of folks do. Raw cocktail shrimp is fine to feed them and they go nuts for it according to everyone that feeds it. But yes, they will eat everything the snails are eating so no real need to add anything else in there. I brought it up specifically because the poster mentioned feeding shrimp pellets and added the shocked smiley at the end