What do shrimp eat?
Shrimp are omnivorous creatures. They will eat anything that’s edible. Both macros and dwarf shrimp can be fed on a diet of fish food and old, brown tree leaf litter that has been conditioned by bacteria and fungi in the tank. The best food for filter shrimp are the micro-organisms that are blown out of the output of a well-established canister filter. A large enough hang-on power filter might work, too. The filter shrimp can actually live on the micro-organisms exclusively as long as your tank is large enough and has other shrimp or small fish that are fed every day. This daily feeding keeps the micro-organisms in the filter reproducing, which in turn feeds the filter shrimp. If you do not have a well-established canister filter (or maybe even a power filter if large enough) yet, *and* you see your filter shrimp sweeping the ground with their appendages, then you can offer them a few flakes. As long as the filter shrimp are filtering and producing droppings you can be assured that the
