Target feeding my apps - Feed each and every one

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We keep seeing these guys grow and every 5-6 months I feel the need to feed them. Little glass Apps are truley prolific so I just feed them each and every one and they love the food. They suck it in and I think they like it, because they hang on to the injector I use. They seem to love the food so much that they are happy and go out on their own, never to be seen again?
We do not mean to harm them and yet it seems that after we feed all of them,(sometimes there's 40-50+) they all hide and do not come back out to feed again?
I/We are doing something wrong?
I put plenty of food into the syringe.
I feed them until they are full.
I see they eat it all.
I/We must be doing something that casues them to hide after feeding?
I GOT IT!, it's the food!, yea that's it, the food. We are using a special food, and specially prepared to a smooth consistency. Yes !,
you guessed it !,
??? Kalk ???
For them I guess it is not so magically delicious, but for us it is a Lucky Charm.
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ps: side note: We guess that two pepermint shrimps in a few hundred gallon system, just does not cut it? wrong/right? any thoughts? :cry:]
 
[I've got 3 peppermint shrimp in my 55, and they've cleaned up about 10-15 aiptasia since I put them in 2 weeks ago. It took them about a week, and they started off with the small ones. But now I think I have 4 or 5 aiptasia in teh whole tank, all about the diamtere of a nickel. And the shrimp are getting fatter, so I know they're doing their job.

I've been thinking about getting 2 more.]
 
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Yes I think we should get 3-4-5 more and I also cut down the stock by 3/4 reduction, the old fashion method/kalk feeding, so I guess it is time to wipe out the last 2-3 larger ones and let the shrimp do the rest.
Thanks for the word on your practice. It is good to know what size tank and amounts of shrimp people are using. If anybody else are using these and could, please write in on your tank size and progress with the Peps-Vers-Apps.
I guess a large app, never has been seen to take down a pep with revenge in mind?
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Thanks]
 
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