For those curious about mulberry leaves, thought I would post a pic from my tank.
This is taken 24 hours after the leaf was introduced. I knew there were some always on it, but I hadn't really noticed just how busy the feeding site stayed long term. The shrimp stay like this on it until it is fully consumed. For reference, there are probably about 120 adult mischling shrimp in this tank, and around 40 of them are berried as of last weekend.
So, that brings up a question for those using the mulberry leaves: are you treating them as food (i.e. part of their main diet) or are you treating it as something you add from time to time - supplement like - but still feed them other food if you have a leaf in the tank? I don't want to overfeed, but given the number of adults in the tank, and those that are actively carrying babies, I just want to make sure they are getting solid nutrition. The tank does have a decent amount of moss in it as well, so they do have full-time grazing surfaces.

This is taken 24 hours after the leaf was introduced. I knew there were some always on it, but I hadn't really noticed just how busy the feeding site stayed long term. The shrimp stay like this on it until it is fully consumed. For reference, there are probably about 120 adult mischling shrimp in this tank, and around 40 of them are berried as of last weekend.
So, that brings up a question for those using the mulberry leaves: are you treating them as food (i.e. part of their main diet) or are you treating it as something you add from time to time - supplement like - but still feed them other food if you have a leaf in the tank? I don't want to overfeed, but given the number of adults in the tank, and those that are actively carrying babies, I just want to make sure they are getting solid nutrition. The tank does have a decent amount of moss in it as well, so they do have full-time grazing surfaces.