How much bio-load do shrimp actually have?

one million shrimp! or maybe 5.

I would be totally guessing but I would say 10 shrimp to one neon tetra, which means in a planted tank you don't even have enough poop to fertilize the plants.

But enough to make moss grow.

physics says me that if you dont feed them then they have negative load

Dead bodies carry more load.

dzega said:

physics says me that if you dont feed them then they have negative load

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the amount of ammonia output as a byproduct of being dead is greater than the ammonia output as a byproduct of eating :wink: :icon_mrgr

im on the 10:1 train but with a catch

we arent factoring feed in/out, which shrimp are quite good at

one neon tetra's metabolic output from cellular respiration sure beats a shrimp, but shrimp put far more little mice poop looking pellets into a tank imo so in the end, if you aren't cleaning a tank very well i think both species are pretty polluting given their differences in cellular waste output. we still input quite a bit of feed into shrimp tanks, thats their bioload too.
thats just my guess.