Can I use this type of shrimp in recipes?

[hermiemommy101408]

I bought small cooked shrimp pealed and deveined with tail off for me but i wanna make a shrimp recipe for my babies. I know i heard that shrimp is best for hermies with the exo still on the shrimp so does it matter about the shrimp being pealed? Also what are some good easy shrimp recipes?

[emmac350]

Your crabs won't get all the nutritional value from shrimp that don't have at least their tails on. However, shrimp meat contains a lot of the stuff that your crabs need, just not the calcium and chitin that the shell do. So yes, you can feed it to them, but you should ensure they have calcium and chitin from somewhere (shellfish or even dried baby shrimp, bloodworms or other worms with hard exoskeletons, etc.) along with the shrimp you have.

You could either just put it on top of their food (or partly buried underneath to try to get them to eat the other stuff too) for them, or saute it lightly in some olive oil and sprinkle lime or other citrus juice on top...that's my favorite way to eat shrimp, and they respond to the lime pieces on top.

I recommend cutting the shrimp into several smaller pieces so one crab doesn't hog the whole thing from everyone else. Also, if no one seems to eat it, either leave it in the tank one more day if you're comfortable with that (not everyone is, but I figure if it isn't touching sand and I boil the shell afterward it isn't that big of a deal) so it can smell up the tank more and maybe attract them, or wait a few days (3-4 minimum) and offer it again. They're more likely to eat it the second or third or even fourth time you offer it.