Crayfish diet is very varied, animal and plant food are eaten, especially like to eat juicy and fertile green plants, such as water hyacinth, water lily, and like to eat insects or larvae, earthworms, snails, mussels, and other animal food; artificially fed to a variety of plants, animal scraps and artificial with the material is also like to eat.

In natural conditions, mainly feeding on organic debris, algae, filamentous algae, aquatic plants, roots, leaves and debris, especially like to eat juicy and tender green plants, such as water lily, water hyacinth, Malayan eyelet, green pimple and bitter grass. Animal foods include water worms, earthworms, eggs of aquatic insects, nymphs, snails, mussels and fish.

In the case of artificial breeding, it can be fed with feed, by-products of agricultural and sideline product processing (cake meal, rice bran, bran, etc.), scraps from slaughterhouses, and various kinds of delicate land grasses, melons, fruits and vegetable leaves.

Life habits of crayfish

Lobster like to inhabit the water plants, branches, stone gaps and other hidden things. The shrimp day and night, do not like bright light. Under normal conditions, during the day, more hidden in the water deeper or in the concealment, rarely active, the evening after the sun went down began to move, more gathered in shallow water crawling for food or looking for a mate. If frightened, quickly flee back to deep water. The shrimp like to crawl, do not like to swim, foraging and activities crawling forward, frightened or encountered enemies quickly backward, jumping to avoid.