MHCs and Repashy Morning Wood

[Apoplexic]

Wondering if anyone has any good experience feeding MHCs small chunks of this product? While I'm not entirely averred to the idea of "if that's all it has it will eat it," and the ingredient listseems pretty on par with their diet, I'd rather not starve them.

I also have frozen mysis shrimp, but I would prefer to feed that as a treat over primary, to help maintain the tank.

[soilentgringa]

MHC'S eat as varied a diet as land crabs.

I fed my thin stripes bits of dehydrated veg, crickets, and mealworms with chopsticks and they also had brine shrimp in the tank to eat.

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[wodesorel]

My ruggie practically lives on Repashy gecko diets, so I know their products are crab safe.

However, Morning Wood is for freshwater bottom feeders, mostly pleco species that require high fiber wood diets. It is not for marine species. I'm not sure if they have ventured into saltwater species yet.

If you want a 'fish food' that would be easy to feed, try any of Hikari's line for marine and brackish. It would be a bit closer to what they require.


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[Apoplexic]

It was picked at last night, but it doesn't seem to be among the "jump on it en masse" foods. I'll check out the Hikari line; the issue for me wasn't so much "easy to feed" as it was "easy to eat," and the marine supply at my LFSs was largely limited to the clip seaweed (which still floats, far away from the reach of these little guys) and those tiny, Betta-sized beads of slow-sinking veggie pellets.

I took 12 (and have at least 9 left) of very small, probably misidentified MHC species from a relative; he'd put in some sort of new fancier coral than before, and I guess the hermits are too hard for its soft body. I'd originally placed them in a 2.5-gal enclosure within my 55-gal main LHC tat, but was concerned (along with some other members) about the space and viability of that size tank, so I moved them into a 10; while this still presents the problems of keeping saltwater in so small a quantity, at least they have plenty of places to move about.

But that still leaves me with the trash that they won't get. I'm fine with extra mysis shrimp and meaty bits after a feeding, since they're bound to find 99% of them anyway, but small vegetable matter won't smell as much, and would seem just as likely to be buried by their shell dragging as it is to actually be eaten. I may pick up a small cucumber or a star or two to actually sift the sand, rather than picking from the surface of it.