You can get fry food or something like that, or you can just use your fingers to grind some of your flakes/pellets into a powder. You don't want to feed so much it can easily get food from the water column. That would foul your tank up real quick. You wanna get a pipette or turkey baster, and mix your ground up food with a small amount of tank water, suck it up, and directly feed the shrimp with it. Your shrimp buddy should open his/her fans when you do this. I was all prepared to do this when I got a vampire shrimp, but it disappeared a day after I added it to the tank. At this point I think it got stuck in the dw and died. I have no idea, never found a corpse. Could still be kicking for all I know.I was given a bamboo shrimp the other day and though I know they're filter feeders I never really thought about whether I need to feed them! I just assumed that it would catch leftovers but now I'm worrying that the particles are too large for those delicate fans. Is there a special supplement available just for filter feeders?
They'll naturally move to the place with the highest flow, but it's good that it can get that close to it. I didn't know if it could reach there or not, why I suggested spot feeding.I think mine is smarter than the average shrimp because every time I go looking for it I know that it will be clinging to the driftwood just on the edge of the filter outflow! That where I drop food for the Tetras and some of that I do grind up a bit