Supplemental feeding for inverts?

I was having some black slime issues and I think I have hammered out the cause being my canister filter. Anyway to kill off the existing slime quickly I did a tank black out for two days. Anyway, I run a coral/invert tank with no fish. I essentially cut off the food supply for my over populated invert tank as well.

What should I feed to supplement hungry snails, porcelain crabs, and a peppermint shrimp. Yeah I pretty much have a tank full of CuC but I want to make sure some of them don’t die out on me due to a food shortage. They seem to eat anything in the tank but this slime I had so the tank is pretty clean now and the slime is gone so now I look at supplementing my stock pile of CuC.

I also have an emerald crab but when he is hungry any more he snacks on my chaeto so I’m not worried about him. There are also a few Nassarius Vibex snails but they scavenge anything they can anyway.

Anyone had any experience with feeding a bunch of inverts? LOL

I just want a idea of what I can feed them without just throwing food in my tank for the few crabs to munch on because they won’t eat everything and then it spikes my nitrates as it decays. Everything is currently healthy so I was doing great for a while but I had issues with parasites killing the two fish I had so there went some of the food for the inverts coupled with the black out I am just concerned that’s all…

Thanks in advance for any advice!

 

No flow, and some flake food? ... might give them some grub to nourish.

 

Depends. How long ago were they fed? I would not do flake but fresh well rinsed shrimp or something else. go 3 day no food, one day food, 3 day no food. Maybe something like that???

 

thanks for the ideas. I was thinking something like that. I was also thinking I can run my lights little longer as long as the slime algae doesn't grow and that would help algae growth some of the snails but I am still working on a light balance. Also I need to pick up a timer so I can regulate it better...

 

Crab cuisine pellets work.

 

Never heard of that but I will check it out. Thanks!

 

I believe Hikari makes it. I can only find it at one store here (out of many), but you could probably find it online. Pretty much any pellet would do, but these have all the stuff shelled inverts need. Even my cardinal and orange-spot goby will nab a few.

 

I'm probably going to order some but I picked up some hakari algae wafers and I have actually put two in the tank today and they were completely devoured so that is kind of neat. I am probably going to feed every 3-5 days with this and try to vary it up with other stuff. The last wafer I dropped in my emerald ran out and grabbed it and then drug it off to his hole ... LOL. I will see how it goes... even the snails munched on the first one.

 

Mine never were crazy about algae wafers. I have a bag missing about 3 for about a year now LOL. My emeralds would take it, take a couple bites, then toss it away.