Shrimps, like other crustaceans, consume a wide variety of food. Perfectly suitable for their food are dying aquatic plants, various organic remains. Shrimp also likes to eat insects that live near the ponds: a pipe man, a butterfly, corets (blood-sucking mosquitoes), daphnia. They also like to feed on plants, mostly those that have soft fleshy leaves. Of no less interest to crustaceans are the remains of dead snails, large and small fish and other marine or freshwater animals. Representatives of certain types of shrimp (for example, belonging to the genus Palaemon) can attack young fish at times when they are too hungry and unable to find other food. But in most life situations shrimp are garbage scavengers. Oral apparatus of crustaceans are jaws (perfectly developed jaws), which serve to grind food.
Large individuals living closer to the equator are constantly actively picking up the bottom of the reservoir with their feet, pulling out the plants in it and energetically changing the underwater landscape in search of plant food. The inhabitants of the seas and oceans prefer to eat them as remains, which are much easier to find than to hunt live specimens. The species and numerical diversity of various organisms suitable for feeding shrimps, allows the latter to reach very large (up to 30 centimeters) in size. Especially impressive sizes reach the so-called tiger prawns.
