[kien]

I used to use the basket trick but that got annoying and unsightly.. Then what I did was feed the dendro and pretty much sat there with the turkey baster and shot water at the shrimps when they tried to steal food. This worked okay but still annoying. Finally what I do now is I use the two sided aspect of my tank to my advantage and I feed the shrimp on one side of my tank by plopping in a piece of shrimp. They bolt to it like a fly to fly paper and pretty much ignore anything else going on in the tank. I can then feed the dendro on the other side of my tank without worry. However, sometimes I will switch it up and use one of the later two methods (either just scare away the shrimp and wait for the dendro to close up), or feed shrimp some large meaty thing to distract them. I have like 6 shrimp so I know how challenging it is! To make matters worse I have more than just the Dendro to spot feed. I have a few LPS that I spot feed. Oh, and if I do the bait trick with the shrimp then I usually take whatever they haven't finished eating by the time I'm done feeding my dendro and I shove it into one of my anemones. That way it is not sitting in the tank for too long and festering. Although, that's not too much of an issue between the 6 shrimp and a crap load of hermit crabs the piece of bait goes pretty quick.