Shrimp eat meat and algae, including small fish, snails, spinach, aquatic plants, algae, shrimp special feed and so on. It is suggested that animal feed should be used as the staple food, and they can be fed at night, because river shrimps are usually active at night, and when the feed is insufficient, they will kill each other. In addition, in the process of feeding shrimp, it is necessary to change water frequently. Shrimp has high requirements on water quality, and at the same time, the feeding amount needs to be controlled well, so as not to pollute the whole water quality because shrimp can't finish eating.

The newborn shrimp doesn't need to be fed. It mainly eats some plankton and algae. When you grow up, you can feed shrimp food or spinach, but you must clean it, cook it and let it cool before feeding it. Food must be fed regularly and quantitatively. If it is fed too much, the excretion will also increase, which will affect the water quality. In addition, after each feeding, it is best to clean up the residual bait.

Shrimp is omnivorous, but it mainly eats meat, and some species of shrimp eat algae, such as black shell shrimp. For shrimp, the owner can crush small fish, snails and water worms and throw them into the water to feed themselves. In order to balance the nutrition of shrimp, the food to be fed should be comprehensive, mainly meat, supplemented by special feed for spinach, aquatic plants, algae and shrimp. In addition, some species of shrimp occasionally eat soil.

The optimum water temperature for shrimp growth is 18-30℃. When the water temperature drops to 4℃, it will enter the wintering period, and when the water temperature rises above 10℃, its vitality will be enhanced and its feeding will be gradually strengthened.