Big eye thief shrimp is a kind of very fierce shrimp, can eat a lot of things. In addition to shrimp food, fish food and other artificial feed, they can also eat vegetable leaves, aquatic plants and other plant feed, as well as red worms, mealworms, water earthworms and other animal feed. In addition, they may eat small fish and shrimp. Therefore, it is not recommended to breed them together with other small fish and shrimp.
Big eye thief shrimp can eat aquatic plants. They can be said to be "weeding masters", put them in the grass tank, they will begin to eat water weeds. They mainly eat the tender shoots of aquatic plants, but sometimes they dig roots, which is devastating to aquatic plants. However, in the case of algae in the tank, they prefer to eat algae, which is much less destructive to aquatic plants.
The big-eyed thief shrimp also eats snails. After putting the adult bigeye shrimp into the water tank, the number of snails will be reduced a lot in a short time. Therefore, in the actual breeding time, it is also not recommended to put big-eyed thief shrimp and ornamental snails in the same tank. If you want to raise big eye thief shrimp, you can raise alone. If we adjust the water temperature and quality and feed them in time, we can raise them well.