Bamboo shrimp
Atyopsis moluccensis
InvertebratesFreshwater
- Care level
- Moderate
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Recommended tank
- 80 L
- Maximum size
- 9 cm
- Temperature
- 22–28 °C
- pH
- 6.5–7.5
- Diet
- Planktivore
Care at a glance
The bamboo shrimp from South-East Asia has no claws but four fan-shaped feeding appendages, which it opens to sieve particles from the passing current. If it sits on a stone in the flow for hours with its fans up, that is exactly the behaviour you want to see.
So it needs current and suspended food: in a spotless, ultra-clean tank it slowly starves. Supplement with very fine powdered food released into the flow, give it a fixed perch in front of the filter outlet, and leave it alone when it moults.
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