cherry shrimp.. tank mates?

[jeremoose]

Most of these suggestions are good except you WON'T have a large, established colony to begin with (unless you shell out a lot of cash or have a nice friend with an established colony), so the real answer to good tankmates for cherry shrimp is: none. Practically any fish will eat anything that can fit into it's mouth and I'd wager that a baby cherry shrimp could fit into ANY fishes mouth.

 

[Fat Homer]

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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I'm pretty sure the reason you aren't seeing any baby shrimp is because Ammano shrimp actually require Brackish water for their fry to survive...