River shrimp eat plankton, small shrimp, animal carcasses in the water, algae and other food.

Breeding can be provided with fresh fish, shellfish, for the river shrimp to supplement protein, and the amount of feeding should be controlled in the river shrimp five percent of the body weight, but also to replace the water twice a week, to avoid water contamination caused by the death of river shrimp. River shrimp are generally omnivorous animals, so there are many types of food acceptable.

Young shrimp period, it prefers to eat plankton. When it grows up, it prefers to eat some small benthic animals, the carcasses of other aquatic animals, or eat a variety of algae and plant debris. Artificially bred river shrimp, after training, can accept shrimp food and so on.

River Shrimp Feeding

River shrimp do not usually need to be fed every day, feeding too often, it is easy to muddy the water, which is not good for its health. If you feed it vegetarian food, once every three days can be fed, feeding meat, you can feed two to three times a week. If you are afraid of it starving, you can plant some water plants in the water for it to eat.

Feeding shrimp is not like feeding other animals, it is difficult to grasp the amount of food, so generally do not feed more than one at a time, usually pay attention to observation, to see if it finished eating, finished and then feed. Each feeding time is best in half a day or so, more than half a day did not finish eating means feeding more.

There are some feeds that are placed in the water for a long time will lead to deterioration of the water body, so after feeding, if the shrimp did not eat it all, you need to clean it up in a timely manner, you can generally discharge the residual bait together with the water when changing water, so that you can avoid the decline of the water quality, and beneficial to the health of the shrimp.