Freshwater Shrimp Experts?

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Laticauda

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I have a new planted 10 gallon tank. I currently have many small cherry shrimp in the tank, and was wondering if there is another species that I could add to the tank that will get a little bit bigger, and will be compatible with my cherry shrimp.

I really like contrasting colors, or blue/green shrimp I have seen. I don't want ghost shrimp, they seem really "boring" to me.

I have fairly hard and alkaline water, and the tank is about 76 degrees. Any suggestions? Is there a particular supplier of freshwater shrimp where I could find these guys and receive them alive and able to flourish?

Thanks for any suggestions!
Raychel
 
Any other algae eating shrimp should be fine. Maybe you should just focus on these guys? Try to get them to breed! I love freshwater shrimp (did not like catching them when I worked at a wholesale fish distributer! Catching/counting 50 amano shrimp is horrible ;) )

They are very under appreciated, they are great fun to watch. Perfect for a 10 gallon!
 
Wow! I didn't know that ghost shrimp were killer shrimp! Thanks for the tips!

So far so good with these guys. When I got them home, they all looked dead in the bag, but I could detect slight movement in most of them. I've been able to count at least 5 jumping around so far, and one molted day before yesterday!

I've bought one ghost shrimp before, but he died less than 24 hours later, I guess it was too warm for him, or he was just poor quality since I bought him from a feeder tank. I definitely like these cherry shrimp much more. None are adults, all are juvenilles, I hope I get some females so I can breed them. It really is one of my favorite tanks to watch, serene with plant life and every once in a while you see a "POING!" little shrimp jumping up and scurrying across the substrate! Super cute!
 
Your welcome found them to be nasty things who are always hungry.
I have the cherry red, amano, and bamboo with otto cats, a hillstream loach, flying foxes, couple little tetras and a couple of nitrite snails. Love the look and as none of the fish are predators to the shrimp they come out all the time.


Other tank is the same except they have blue pearl instead of cherry red. With the plants and stuff in there it needs very little maintiance compared to my other tanks.

The otto cats are great for cleaning the tanks and don't eat any of the plants
 
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