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today i had to get me some wood shrimp i love them. But as soon as a opened the bag to let them swim down and start fanning them started hunting around the floor for bits it eat. I must say they have found loads to eat grabbing hand fulls of stuff but should they do this is it because the flow is not hard anuf or that there is nothing to eat. Or am i expecting to much with in like the first 2 hours. i could realy do with some pointers here!

Probably starved in the store and are making up for it. Give them a few days to recover and settle in. They also have to find where everything is in the tank before they'll decide where the good spots are to fan.

I was expecting mine to colonize driftwood. However they either end up hanging on to hornwort or anubias that is near the flow of the filter. I would just give them time to find their comfortable space.

Mine are nearly always near the outflow of the filter though.

I like them a whole lot also. good luck.

ok thanks guys i mean there where about 20 in one small 65-70 liter tank which they where all fltering in bacuse there where also loads of yoyo loaches in there as well cleaning the floor. I must say they have eatten all the rubbish from under my filter which i could not reach. So do u think they could do with feeding up and setteling in

Hi there,
my wood shrimp always browses the bottom of the tank
for food too. I dont think it has anything to do with starvation, just that they know good stuff is there!
Mine spends 85% of its time hanging over the filter output, and the other 15% of the time scavenging the bottom for "loot".


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thanks So_Very_Sneaky um can they sit on plants like thick grass and amazon sword or do they preffer rocks. As mainly it is plants infront of my out flow but there are about 4-5 bigs rocks in the tank. thanks for the help so far guys it has been great

Mine use anubias and hornwort to hang onto, and occasionally will use java fern also.

They prefer wood but they sit on plants just fine. Mine have been hanging in the crinum leaves because I had to turn the spraybar up and it no longer points at the wood. If given the choice they will sit on the wood.

All wood shrimp I've seen eating off the bottom acted somewhat starved. I've also never seen a wood shrimp that was target fed feed off the bottom. They only do that when they aren't filtering enough. Doesn't mean they are going to starve to death but they are not getting enough food in their preferred way. Having 20 shrimp in any tank probably meant they weren't able to filter enough food and possibly not even find enough food on the bottom. 3 shrimp can effectively filter my 55g to the point I have to specifically feed them or they have to go hunting around the tank for food.

thanks guys one seems to like to filter and the other likes to cover the ground. um i think i will leave them to get seateled in and see wat happens. Any more comments are always great

i thought i would just say they have finaly found a place to filter feed which is great and i think i was expecting to much to soon but you guys advice realy did help so thanks again!