is there any fresh water tank cleaning shrimp
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asianmick;2737590; said:
I wouldn't put anything in with the beta. Any shrimp or crayfish have the potential to pick at the beta, shred his tail, stress him out, and eventually kill and eat him. I keep feeder guppies in with my crayfish just to give him something to kill if they can catch and kill a guppy a beta is just easy pray....
no actually the beta will kill em in a flash. yeah a baby is fine but i would go with amano or ghost shrimp. they clean ALOT more plus they can swim.Docsoldlady;2738177; said:
I wouldn't put anything in with the beta. Any shrimp or crayfish have the potential to pick at the beta, shred his tail, stress him out, and eventually kill and eat him. I keep feeder guppies in with my crayfish just to give him something to kill if they can catch and kill a guppy a beta is just easy pray....
(and clean the walls when they do). and no guppys are fine too.(depending on the specise of the cray).
spinys or cherax destructor willprobly kill em. blind are fine to my noledge. so are most crays but dont do a cherax.
1. Depends on its personality.asianmick;2741140; said:
2. Number of hiding places.
3. Shrimp size.
how big should the shrimp be and how many should i put and i want to put some plants for them to hide
that one guy;2738413; said:no actually the beta will kill em in a flash. yeah a baby is fine but i would go with amano or ghost shrimp. they clean ALOT more plus they can swim.
and no guppys are fine too.(depending on the specise of the cray).
spinys or cherax destructor willprobly kill em. blind are fine to my noledge. so are most crays but dont do a cherax.
Never had that problem. My ghost shrimp picked at my betas tail, only thing my beta would eat were his pellets...flake sometimes too.
Let's try and remember this is a 5 gallon tank. IMHO I wouldn't put too much of anything in there as not to run the risk of over stocking...OR stressing out the fish that is already in there. And I wouldn't put a crayfish of any sort in anything smaller than a 10 gallon.
