do malayan shrimps eat algae?

**Cardinal Tetra** · 22nd Apr 2003, 23:47

what do malayan shrimps eat? do they eat algae besides leftoever food?

**NaRcOsIs** · 22nd Apr 2003, 23:52

i Have 100 malayan shrimps in my 4 footer. can see &gt;10 anytime scavaging around the forground glosso.. where there r some spot algae. think they eat some. but they definately prefer leftover food.

**willietan86** · 23rd Apr 2003, 01:45

you buy 100 malayan shrimps but most of the time u'll find like alot missing...agree? me feel that lor

**kingpin** · 23rd Apr 2003, 01:50

They do eat algae, just not as efficient as the yamatoes. Get yamatoes if you can, malayan shrimps are quite useless.

**PACKO** · 23rd Apr 2003, 14:06

neh!! personally i prefer malayan to yamoto.malayan can be as efficient as yamato to some extend.Worse! yamato are kinda fond of eating riccia and plants in the aquarium comparing to malayan.

my two cent opinion

**Nature** · 23rd Apr 2003, 14:51

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**sherchoo** · 23rd Apr 2003, 15:06

IMO, Malayans do help in algae control. Yamatos seems harder working as they are less shy and you can actually see them grazing. One thing I dun like abt Yamatos is that they are quite aggresive during feeding time. I saw a yamato snatched food from my discus 20 times it's size.

If you are thinking which to get, I say get both. This way you dun have to worry which is better to get. Juz remeber to get them proportionally.