Sturgeons are bottom-feeders, and their diets mostly consist of crustaceans, small invertebrates, shells, and small fish. Larger species may consume large fish as well.

What do you feed Sterlets?

Sturgeons cannot digest most plant proteins so their food needs a high fish meal or shrimp meal content. Avoid foods made from mainly soya and wheat, your sturgeons will eat it if they're hungry but it will not do them any good.

What is a sturgeons favorite food?

DIET: Lake sturgeon are omnivorous and eat by sucking up food with their mouths. They usually locate their food with the aid of their sensitive barbels, which they drag over river and lake bottoms. Lake Sturgeon feed on insect larvae, crayfish, snails, clams and leeches.