Amano shrimp?

[trigoudarammi]

Do these little guys need like algae wafers or anything or are they fine scavenging?

 

[daayda3]

I feed my shrimp cory pellets...they break down, and are the perfect size

 

[Halibass]

They should be fine with almost anything you feed your other fish (flakes, pellets, sinking food, etc). I have 2 and they're pigs. They can tell very quickly when food has been introduced (by sight or other sense) and will get to the food, often before the fish. Mine will swim upside down at the surface in order to grab surface floating flakes, swim against the current to catch oncoming flakes, grab betta pellets from the surface or on the bottom, eat pellets, scavange, anything and everything. They are also great algae eaters so if you have some of algae, they'll have plenty to eat. They're great and fun to watch.

 

[nickmcmechan]

I.m thinking of getting amano shrimp for my 35g tank.

The tank will be heavily planted - will the shrimp eat my plants?

 

[loaches r cool]

Dont forget to ask google your questions http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Caridina+japonica&btnG=Search

 

[edwardmean]

I had a few in my tank and they would walk the leaves of the plants eating the algae, also they would sit there chewing on pieces of flake that fell to the bottom during feeding. Kinda cute but they are all gone now one climbed out I think because I found him dead on my floor, not sure how else he would have gotten there. The others disappeared after I purchased a Butterflyfish and I presume they were eaten.