Panda mice are omnivorous ornamental fish and can eat artificial feed and live bait. They prefer some active bait, such as brine shrimp, red nematodes, silk earthworms, etc., and patch feeds are also eaten. The newly hatched red panda mice are very small. It is best to use their own hatched brine shrimp as open feed. The red panda mice will gradually grow with sufficient food. At one month, it can be fed with adult panda rat feed.

Panda rat fish is a bottom fish, generally only active at the bottom of the water layer, like to flip the bottom Sand, so use some bottom-sinking feed when feeding. In addition, panda rat fish generally only grows to about 4-6cm, so do not feed fish food with larger particles. Larger fish food can be crushed and put into the tank.