cherry shrimp.. tank mates?

[rainyost]

Hey guys,
I'm planning on setting up a 55g tank that will be planted. I want to do cherry shrimp in the tank but am not sure of tank mates that will not eat them, any ideas or personal experience with this would be greatly appreciated. Also any DIY substrate ideas would be helpful!!!!!
Thanks,
Rj

 

[bbortko]

I have mine in my 36g planted with a bristle nose pleco, cories, rummynose, a lemon tetra, a neon, endlers and angelfish. I'm sure some get picked off here and there but not enough to dent the population.

 

[virgil2090]

I liked the white clouds I had with my shrimp.I think sand looks good, PFS or black, or mixed

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[Fat Homer]

in one of my community tanks, i have Clown Killifish / Needle Nose Pike / Celestial Pearl Danios with my Crystal Red Shrimp...

While it does sort of work, i'm sure a lot of the babies get picked off before reaching a decent size to avoid becoming food...

So i would say, if you start off with enough of them, then they should breed fast enough you will always see some babies around the tank...

 

[E.C.]

Corydoras FTW.

 

[Curtis Rouse]

I've been wondering the same thing. Would upside down cats be ok with shrimp?

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[Moonblade777]

I've heard bettas are ok some times I wouldn't get a super aggressive male though

 

[HybridHerp]

Substrate....do organic potting mix and cap it with 1.5"+ of pool filter sand....cheapest thing possible.

Now, as far as the shrimp go, I would get the tank cycled and all, planted, and then add the shrimp and let them breed....let them breed a lot. Then, once you have an established population (might just want to be just shrimp for maybe a two or three months....if you have the patience for that) I would add in small tetras and such.

Technically, the only fish I can think of that would be 0 problem would be ottocinclus....but I'm keeping my fire reds with endler guppies and eventually a school of some sort of micro fish.

In another tank, I have tangerine tigers with cajun dwarf crays, ember tetras, honey gourami's, and guppies....but I wouldn't recomend that and I only do it because I don't care about breeding them (although....I can't get the TDS in that tank to lower so I might just switch to a different variety of neocardina or just let the dwarf crays be the invert of that tank)

 

[bs6749]

Corys and ottos would work, some of the smaller species of tetras (neons, black neons, glowlights, cardinals, etc.), male endlers (females are much larger than males and can eat a larger shrimp, snails, and species of shrimp of another genus (neocaridina) would work if you are worried about the shrimp inbreeding.

 

[Dark Rose]

I've got ghost and amano shrimp in a 29g planted, using the PFS over potting soil formula.

Tankmates are
1 spotted hi-fin pleco
2 bolivian ram cichlids
6 neon tetras
5 black neon tetras
6 golden barbs
2 bamboo shrimo
3 Otocinclus cats

None of my adult shrimp seem to have died off or been killed, (have 10-12 of the ghost and amano) but it doesn't appear that any young are surviving either...

Planted with
Anubias
Wisteria
Amazon sword
Dwarf hair grass


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