Zoo Med Nano Banquet Block Mini 6/cd

Great Item

I have two amano shrimp and one nerite snail in one of my 5 gallon tanks, and another nerite in my other 5 gallon (planning to add cherry shrimp soon). Since my tanks are recently established, I wanted to make sure I had a secondary food source in case they cleaned all the biofilm and algae. Unfortunately neither of my nerites will eat much of anything but algae and biofilm, but the shrimp seem to love these blocks, and will sometimes squirrel away tiny pieces to eat later. I normally cut the blocks into 8ths, and feed one piece once a week, along with a quarter of an algae wafer. The blocks cut pretty cleanly even using a butter knife, and the blocks sink quickly and don't cloud the water. They take about 4-5 days to completely dissolve, though I do keep them in a low flow area in my tank. Both of my amanos are juveniles, meaning they molt weekly, and all of their molts are nice and healthy. I wonder if the extra dissolved calcium is helping my nerite too, because even his shell, which had a tiny crack at the tip, looks like it's filling in. I'm definitely keeping this as part of my shrimps' diet.

I have Blue Velvet and Crystal Red shrimp. They love these! They don't cloud the water, and they maintain their shape after sinking. I cut the tablets up into halves so they are eaten quickly. I just use them as an occasional treat.

OK

I drop one tablet in the cherry shrimp tank and they don’t seem to care for it. Few snails on it so after 2 days it just dissolved. It’s okay and my shrimps just won’t eat it.

This is garbage, dropped one in two different tanks and fish don’t go near it. Waste of money and you can’t even return an unopened package!

Have tried this once right before leaving for the weekend, it was great and shrimp liked it enough that I just dropped another one in.

It is very small (perfect for the typical nano shrimp tank. Mine happens to be the fluval 5.5 spec) and does provide the large number of shrimp associated with small shrimp tanks a nice food variety among their shrimp pellets and frozen varieties of food.I will throw in a block as often as once a week, or every other week (dependent on my weekly to bi-weekly water changes). It is important to only feed these blocks right before a water change is due or right after a water change is completed only because once again, with any plaster fed food, when left in the water column, it can get messy and dirty the tank in a relatively short amount of time. My cherry shrimp, orange bee shrimp, and red fire shrimp do enjoy it however and I will continue to offer it to them as a food variety once in a while.