I have 5 amanos in a 20 gallon with 1 betta. They started to slack on cleaning even if I don't feed them that much. I added 2 black helmet nerites which instantly started to clean all the seiryu stone and make it look brand new. Then the shrimp started panicking, it was so funny, they instantly started eating green dust algae off the rocks too :D No glass/rock scraping needed, this crew makes my planted tank look natural, yet clean!
@@yktvklk8022 Plant a lot of plants so everyone has a hiding/resting place, keep the water temp between 75-80f (I keep mine at 76), and you should be good to go. 6 months in, no problems in my tank :)
So nice that you convert inches to centimeters in these captions. Thank you for that! Any chance that you also convert Fahrenheit to Celsius and gallons to liters? That would be so helpful for your international viewers :)
I have several cherry shrimps (orange sakira, Blue Dream, regular red, and Green Jade color) in my 5 Gallon tank. I just placed an order, yesterday, for a vampire shrimp to put in my 55 gallon tank.
I bought 2 amano shrimp for my 55gal (they ran out). One night, I was sitting on a tuffet, watching my preferred fish and play. Along came an amano shrimp, formicine and eerily limp, that scared my bejeezus away. I assume they have both hopped out by now, though I did see one last week.
Excellent videos. I have three broods of shrimplets so far and can't wait until they mature - goal is to have my 20 gal long tank exploding with shrimp! 🙂
My Amano shrimp like to go on field trips around my house. Before I put a tight lid on my aquarium, I found my shrimp about 100ft away from his tank. He went down 2 flights of stairs! I picked him up, plopped him back in, and he’s still going strong 😂
What! Hahah, that's wild. I had a ghost shrimp hop out of the tank and it plopped on the counter and stayed like a little shrimp putty until I carefully put them back in the water. Can't imagine any shrimp just out and about walking around! 😆
Amano shrimp aren't available in my area. I ended up with 9 cherry shrimp as part of a private plant deal. The guy was selling live plant cuttings, but the minimum amount was $20 worth. I didn't need that much, so he offered to give me less cuttings plus the cherry shrimp for the $20. Two months later, I still have the cherry shrimp. We rarely see more than one or two at a time, but once we were thrilled to see a "shrimp parade" with 5 of them walking across the aquarium.
Lol if you get your parameters right and supplement the minerals in the tank, you can get your shrimp population to explode! That is if you have at least one female.
I have both in the same tank with tetras. Strangely enough, the Amanos are really shy and probably only come out when lights are off. Whereas the cherries are everywhere!
huge fan of dward shrimp ♥ i love both but currently only have one amano shrimp that has been alive for at least 6 years including about 1 year without water food/filtration/maintenance.. When I was gonna clean out the tank (finally when I was getting out from the pits of depression) to sell it, I saw that one shrimp STILL ALIVE. Since she didn't give up, I decided to restart the tank and now Pepita the zombie apocalypse amano shrimp just shares a tank a betta :)
Can you so one on glass/ghost shrimp? It would be nice to see a video going in depth on this? As they aren't as popular, but are super cute and I wish there's be more videos ❤️👍 glass vs cherry shrimp. Shrimp head to head part two 👌
Glass/ghost shrimp are a tad bit more aggressive in my opinion lmao, if you wanna keep them you should remove anything smaller than them. Based on my experience with ghost shrimp hunting my cherries 😂
I just added a few ghost shrimp to my betta's tank because they're more carnivorous than a lot of easy to get shrimp and he is the messiest, most awkward eater. They're all getting along, once Khan got over the WHAT ARE THESE THINGS HOW DARE YOU phase.
Both of them are in my planted axlotol tank and they were the perfect addition. The Amano's tend to be more "intelligent" and avoid the axlotols better
I've had two ammonos in my tank for goodness knows how long. One finally passed on a few months ago, but the other one as been around...for around 4+ years...at least!! I've truly lost track of how long that guy has lived. I named him T1000 because of his color, and I think it's so apt, as he seems well nigh indestructible! I've heard that they can last a long time, as they are not inbred to death, but wow! I saw the even longer lived one feed upside down facing the surface of the water. So amazing. It blows my mind when I see that; it reminds me how differently gravity works underwater, especially with tiny critters like that! Cherries are pretty, but, like most shrimp, they tend not to last long. So many shrimp are hopelssly inbred, and so their genetics are garbage and they don't last long :(
I like and have both. Cherries are cute and small and it's really fun to be able to see the whole breeding process. Amanos can get quite large and are absolute machines with cleaning a tank. Because they're big, they're easy to see and observe. I can only put larger amanos with my betta since he likes to eat cherry shrimps. For a species only tank, cherries are the way to go. For a community tank, I prefer larger amanos since they can't get eaten by the most popular tropical fish.
In December I bought my first 14 yellow golden back neocaridinas. Now I have about 40-50 adults and countless shrimplets. 5g tank... May start selling some soon 😉 They are fun creatures to watch.
Yes I agree I like the Amano shrimp better, they just seem to have more character with their little legs always busy & on the go. I think they're prettier too, with their distinctive markings and bigger tail :)
My larger tanks have amano, my smaller tanks have cherry - I love both for different reasons. The amano shrimp are jerks tho & will swim off with an entire wafer nearly big as them meant for my goby's/corys. I've seen them actually wrestle the wafer away from my other critters & "attack" (hilarious to watch) in competition for food. Example: Curious (Gardneri) killifish checking out food that ended up at bottom of tank....amano jumps on his face, killifish swims off confused, amano snags the tasty tidbit. Nobody messes with my amanos lol! I've had to get creative making sure my bottom feeders get enough to eat. Also, if my hand is in the tank, I inevitably end up with 1 or 2 amano shrimp crawling on it & picking away. Those teeny-tiny pincers they use feel so funky on skin.
I keep both Armanos and various red Cardina species, including Cherries. I keep them with various Danoi and Tetra species as well as with Mollies, Sword Tails, Guppies and Endlers. They breed like rabbits despite that some fish snack on babies. My tank is, however, heavily planted. I barely have any algae issues and both species do an excellent job keeping my 70 gal tank clean. Thanks for all your nice and informative videos, which I always enjoy watching. Regards, Johann from Centurion, South Africa
GET OUT OF MY HEAD! LOL, I have cherry shrimp, but I have wanted both bamboo and Amano shrimp for quite some time and I just started digging into my research on the Amanos today!
Hi, I have a question. I´m new in aquarium hobby and I would lke to add betta to my 20gallon aquarium. I was watching lot of videos about the tank mates and I have neon tetras kuhli loaches and I want to buy cherry shrimp. And than, I would like to buy betta. But my loaches are really active. Everyone on youtebe was saying that kuhli loaches are shy and stay hidden, but I have four kuhli and they are swimming all over the aquarium. So the question is: will that be a problem that they are that active? Thanks :) And also, if you don't think it's the best idea to have these fish together, I'd be happy to hear your opinions and advice. it's my first aquarium and I fell in love with kuhli loaches, cherry shrimps and bettas and I wanted to have them, hopefully it's ok
Great video, thank you so much for that. I've had both types, but the cherry shrimp population died off at one point unfortunately. Amanos can get really old, I still have one that I bought 8 years ago. The others I bought back then lived 3-6 years, this seems to be how long you can expect them to live on average.
@@queenmolmolly7962 I'm afraid I have no secrets to share. It was only one out of six that survived that long, so it is probably only one exceptionally long-lived individual. I kept it together with platyfish in a heavily planted, mostly unheated tank. Due to the very dense plants I don't see it every day, but today I spotted it so I can confirm it's still alive
How did you know that I was JUST considering adding shrimp to my 10 gallon betta tank??? Sounds like the Amano would be the way to go in my situation. I need a good algae and biofilm eater, something big enough that won't be an easy snack, and I really don't want a million of them lol
Amano shrimp for me. They are more hardy. They cleaned up all my hair algae. They are like water cockroaches. When I drop shrimp pellets for my corys, they grab them and swim up top on a leaf plant like a leopard taking its kill up a tree.
Bought a pack of 10 amano shrimps ranging from 1/2 to 1 inch last year and they seemingly "vanished" in my aquarium. I was happy today to spot one of my amanos in my tank that has now grown over 2 1/2 inches. He came out of nowhere during feeding time and took off with a whole shrimp pellet.
I've noticed baby shrimp in my 20 gallon tank, the only shrimp I've had in there are Amano's. I do have very hard water, but it's not in any way brackish. Are they just not going to make it all the way to adulthood? Some of them are about the size of a dried bloodworm now and they seem to be moving around and living life just fine!
I bought two Amano and I enjoy watching the 2 of them. I bought a few neocardina, and now after giving away dozens I have several hundred across three tanks. And the colors that I'm getting have changed and diverged in separated populations that were all started with the same few shrimp.
This answered pretty much all of my questions about Amano shrimp. I was hoping that they would be large enough to not become fast food for the tank i'm planning which is going to be mostly platies, albino cory cats, and mayyybe a single male betta. Basically a very pedestrian community tank.
I love Cherries all the way! I love my Cherries and Orange Bees although, I love the fact that they’re not hard to breed and they just look so darn cute with all their bright colors.
When do you cull cherry shrimp? How do you know cause I can't tell the small males with a little color from a bad female? Do you just wait for full colors?
Can female Amanos still look heavily pregnant without giving birth? In the video some of these Amanos look ready to drop and one of mine at home does too.
Im sad...i dont have any fish yet my tank is new as of yesterday and cycling. When i do add fish i wanted 3 cherry shrimp. I love their looks but if Amanos are better for the health of the tank Ill get those. Thanks for making me sad...j/j of course
i think i like amano shrimp more. thats because how i enjoy looking at a tank i think. i like understocked tanks as they resemble nature to me a lot more. you dont go out to a lake or river, take a peak and see like 100 shrimps sitting on 60cm area. i actually enjoy not seeing stuff all the time because it makes you for them and then you re happy once you found them. i think seeing a shrimp or 2 here and there feels alot more relaxed than seeing an army of shrimps all the time. i rather have more variety in stock. instead of having a big shrimp colony, rather have a few amano, a snail or 2 and a handfull of fish so the tank just feels more rounded
GTF is my favorite thing on TH-cam. I have cherries in my planted tank with neons and corys. I expected the shrimp to breed but no babies yet. But I do see a new cory sneaking out of the rocks every couple of months so at least something in the tanks is breeding.
Omg I wish I watched this video before posting on Reddit about my “amano” shrimp giving birth to rainbow shrimp 😅😂 she was transparent when I first got her and she had a brown spot pattern on her back too!
I didn't realise that "fancy" shrimp is very expensive in the West. Just recently I bought cherry shrimps for just a little under 2$... FOR 150 OF THEM. Though it is the cheapest I can find and for "normal"(slightly to kinda red) ones. If you aren't really searching, it's usually about 4¢ each In my country.
I got a group of 4 cherry shrimp to take care of brown algae in my betta tank because the color looked great with my koi betta and plants. Of course the next day I could only find 3 and a betta with a full belly🙄🙄🙄 I think amano shrimp might work better due to size and semi translucence so wish me luck!
I have both but love them equally. I didn’t understand how aggressive the Amanos are about their food, and I have 5 ginormous females in 10 gallons with my betta and Bloody Marys. I would not recommend that many in a small tank, I really have to stay on top of feeding them.Thugs! You are spot on about spreading food around. Most of my Amanos come up for hand feeding when the betta gets fed, and they still squabble over food. LOL
I don't believe in tank overstocking as long as fish can move around and you keep up on water changes like a very dense guppy tank as long as the water is clean and the fish get fed you're good
My brothers going to college and they only allow one gallon fish tanks so I said to him well that’s to small for any fish so just get like 1 or 2 cherry shrimp but he said his college only allows fish
Good information! I was interested in Amanos, but I’m afraid they might outcompete my Habrosa Corydoras for food. I already have two female guppies in the tank that hog the pellets!
I have amanos in with guppies and a honey gourami. The amanos will definitely each grab a sinking pellet and carry it away to eat. If they can reach and carry two, they'll do that too! But then it takes a while for them to eat. I break softer pellets in halves, quarters or more and spread them round the tank so everyone gets some.
I kept half a dozen cherry shrimp in a 3.5 Gallon. They were thriving for a few months and I even had a pregnant female... 😞 but I went away for the weekend and my kid dumped a whole bag of Shrimp Cuisine into their tank the day before I got back...😓
*Which two animals should I compare in my next head-to-head matchup?*
Koy or goldfish
Orfe or koi
How much did you get for selling all the cherry shrimp?
Goldfish or bettas please?!!
Guppies and platies
I have 5 amanos in a 20 gallon with 1 betta. They started to slack on cleaning even if I don't feed them that much. I added 2 black helmet nerites which instantly started to clean all the seiryu stone and make it look brand new. Then the shrimp started panicking, it was so funny, they instantly started eating green dust algae off the rocks too :D No glass/rock scraping needed, this crew makes my planted tank look natural, yet clean!
I wanna do that as well I have a 10 gallon tank though any Advice (I want to keep a Betta and 5 amano as well)
@@yktvklk8022 Plant a lot of plants so everyone has a hiding/resting place, keep the water temp between 75-80f (I keep mine at 76), and you should be good to go. 6 months in, no problems in my tank :)
@@qq911 thanks for the advice I’ll take this into consideration have a good day
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Cherries for decoration. Amano for getting work done.
Bada bing, bada boom.
Agree, I was gonna post this exact thing
True i got some amanos and they r great
Exactly. This is so true that I posted the same thing.
Actually, I love the look of amanos
So nice that you convert inches to centimeters in these captions. Thank you for that! Any chance that you also convert Fahrenheit to Celsius and gallons to liters? That would be so helpful for your international viewers :)
I love amanos for blackwater and cherries for planted tanks
I have several cherry shrimps (orange sakira, Blue Dream, regular red, and Green Jade color) in my 5 Gallon tank. I just placed an order, yesterday, for a vampire shrimp to put in my 55 gallon tank.
I bought 2 amano shrimp for my 55gal (they ran out). One night, I was sitting on a tuffet, watching my preferred fish and play. Along came an amano shrimp, formicine and eerily limp, that scared my bejeezus away. I assume they have both hopped out by now, though I did see one last week.
What?
I absolutely love shrimp i really wish i could add some in my planted discus tank
Please anyone clarify my doubt do cherry shrimp eat it's fry and guppy fry? Is it ok to put them in guppy fry tank?
Kribensis and german blue ram
Thanks for the info! I might try and breed some cherry shrimp in the future for my local fish store in a 29 gallon tank!
Excellent videos. I have three broods of shrimplets so far and can't wait until they mature - goal is to have my 20 gal long tank exploding with shrimp! 🙂
Hi love your vids and formation - but I see you’ve got yo yo loaches with shrimp? I thought the yo yo would eat them ?
What is the difference between pumpkin shrimp and Sunkist?
How about caridina vs neocaridina
Can i put cherry shrimp with danios zebra
Can you keep shrimps with guppies?
Can you compare the human-animal to guppies?
Love your tank! What substrate is that?
Nice video! Do you know if the Caridina Pareparensis Parvidentata are good as the amano shrimp for eating algae?
i love her
I have amano shrimp in my axolotl tank and the axolotls ignore them
Amano shrimp 💪
So I started with 5 cherry shrimp - two red, two yellow, and one black, and now I have green cherry shrimp lol
Wooow, so cool! 💚
Yeah I somehow got a couple blue shrimp out of one yellow and a red
I had 10 cherry shrimp, 8 died. The last two ended up breeding and now my tank is full of orange shrimp lol.
I've got a random crayon box of cherry shromp... omg... what color IS that?
Can't wait to see what happens...
I love them.
I've had amano shrimps that lasted 11 years, bought five of them in 2005 and I had three that finally perished only 5 years ago.
My Amano shrimp like to go on field trips around my house. Before I put a tight lid on my aquarium, I found my shrimp about 100ft away from his tank. He went down 2 flights of stairs! I picked him up, plopped him back in, and he’s still going strong 😂
What! Hahah, that's wild. I had a ghost shrimp hop out of the tank and it plopped on the counter and stayed like a little shrimp putty until I carefully put them back in the water. Can't imagine any shrimp just out and about walking around! 😆
I had three Amano shrimp that got out of the tank. One crawled 20 feet away to the kitchen and the other two not that far away.
So these amano shrimp can survive out of the water? How about a cherry shrimp? Can they survive out of water too?
@@bumboopanda4558they can survive for a few hours outside of water, however this doesn’t mean you should let them go out
Same plopped mine back in and he hasn’t jumped out again. Learned his lesson haha
Amano shrimp aren't available in my area. I ended up with 9 cherry shrimp as part of a private plant deal. The guy was selling live plant cuttings, but the minimum amount was $20 worth. I didn't need that much, so he offered to give me less cuttings plus the cherry shrimp for the $20. Two months later, I still have the cherry shrimp. We rarely see more than one or two at a time, but once we were thrilled to see a "shrimp parade" with 5 of them walking across the aquarium.
Lol if you get your parameters right and supplement the minerals in the tank, you can get your shrimp population to explode! That is if you have at least one female.
@@NinjaSushi2 true
I’ve always wanted a cherry shrimp breeding tank that is heavily planted because their color looks amazing in front of the flourishing green plants
They look amazing in the red plants, too
I have both in the same tank with tetras.
Strangely enough, the Amanos are really shy and probably only come out when lights are off. Whereas the cherries are everywhere!
Yes, my answer is always both, why not?
@@voluntaryismistheanswer because eventually you won't have any shrimp with colour
@@towlie4029 As the video says, Amanos cannot crossbreed with cherries.
huge fan of dward shrimp ♥ i love both but currently only have one amano shrimp that has been alive for at least 6 years including about 1 year without water food/filtration/maintenance.. When I was gonna clean out the tank (finally when I was getting out from the pits of depression) to sell it, I saw that one shrimp STILL ALIVE. Since she didn't give up, I decided to restart the tank and now Pepita the zombie apocalypse amano shrimp just shares a tank a betta :)
Glad to hear that you’ve recovered from that :)
Can you so one on glass/ghost shrimp? It would be nice to see a video going in depth on this? As they aren't as popular, but are super cute and I wish there's be more videos ❤️👍 glass vs cherry shrimp. Shrimp head to head part two 👌
Glass/ghost shrimp are a tad bit more aggressive in my opinion lmao, if you wanna keep them you should remove anything smaller than them. Based on my experience with ghost shrimp hunting my cherries 😂
I just added a few ghost shrimp to my betta's tank because they're more carnivorous than a lot of easy to get shrimp and he is the messiest, most awkward eater. They're all getting along, once Khan got over the WHAT ARE THESE THINGS HOW DARE YOU phase.
Aaaand he's killed one. I removed the other two to a planted tank.
@@katphish30 lol.....
@@katphish30 he is killed by the betta? Which size is your tank?
Both of them are in my planted axlotol tank and they were the perfect addition. The Amano's tend to be more "intelligent" and avoid the axlotols better
I've had two ammonos in my tank for goodness knows how long. One finally passed on a few months ago, but the other one as been around...for around 4+ years...at least!! I've truly lost track of how long that guy has lived. I named him T1000 because of his color, and I think it's so apt, as he seems well nigh indestructible! I've heard that they can last a long time, as they are not inbred to death, but wow! I saw the even longer lived one feed upside down facing the surface of the water. So amazing. It blows my mind when I see that; it reminds me how differently gravity works underwater, especially with tiny critters like that! Cherries are pretty, but, like most shrimp, they tend not to last long. So many shrimp are hopelssly inbred, and so their genetics are garbage and they don't last long :(
I like and have both. Cherries are cute and small and it's really fun to be able to see the whole breeding process. Amanos can get quite large and are absolute machines with cleaning a tank. Because they're big, they're easy to see and observe. I can only put larger amanos with my betta since he likes to eat cherry shrimps. For a species only tank, cherries are the way to go. For a community tank, I prefer larger amanos since they can't get eaten by the most popular tropical fish.
Amano shrimp live much longer and are much more resilient than neocaridina shrimp. I've never had one live less than 4 years.
In December I bought my first 14 yellow golden back neocaridinas. Now I have about 40-50 adults and countless shrimplets.
5g tank... May start selling some soon 😉
They are fun creatures to watch.
Betta fish vs Pea Puffer
Nano/tiny fish with attitude or which are highly intelligent
I've had my amanos for 6 years now, and they are almost 3 inches long. They're absolute beasts.
I love shrimp their so cute! My favourite is the red crystals.
Personally I tend to be more of a fan of Amano shrimp! But cherries are great to! Just they are usually used as more of a decoration for me.
Guppies v.s. Endlers
Guppies hands down. 🤣
Can't find endlers on my country, F
Yes I agree I like the Amano shrimp better, they just seem to have more character with their little legs always busy & on the go. I think they're prettier too, with their distinctive markings and bigger tail :)
I agree! I like my amanos better than my fish to be honest, so much character.
I had a few Amano shrimp once, they get to a nice size, and are lightning fast at finding fresh food added to the aquarium. Smart fellas.
@@144928 And gals. My female amano is a very aggressive eater!
My larger tanks have amano, my smaller tanks have cherry - I love both for different reasons. The amano shrimp are jerks tho & will swim off with an entire wafer nearly big as them meant for my goby's/corys. I've seen them actually wrestle the wafer away from my other critters & "attack" (hilarious to watch) in competition for food. Example: Curious (Gardneri) killifish checking out food that ended up at bottom of tank....amano jumps on his face, killifish swims off confused, amano snags the tasty tidbit. Nobody messes with my amanos lol! I've had to get creative making sure my bottom feeders get enough to eat. Also, if my hand is in the tank, I inevitably end up with 1 or 2 amano shrimp crawling on it & picking away. Those teeny-tiny pincers they use feel so funky on skin.
I keep both Armanos and various red Cardina species, including Cherries. I keep them with various Danoi and Tetra species as well as with Mollies, Sword Tails, Guppies and Endlers. They breed like rabbits despite that some fish snack on babies. My tank is, however, heavily planted. I barely have any algae issues and both species do an excellent job keeping my 70 gal tank clean. Thanks for all your nice and informative videos, which I always enjoy watching. Regards, Johann from Centurion, South Africa
I own both and agree with everything you said 👌
GET OUT OF MY HEAD! LOL, I have cherry shrimp, but I have wanted both bamboo and Amano shrimp for quite some time and I just started digging into my research on the Amanos today!
I would love to see a comparison between Guppies vs Plattys
funny accent but good video, thanks!
Hi, I have a question. I´m new in aquarium hobby and I would lke to add betta to my 20gallon aquarium. I was watching lot of videos about the tank mates and I have neon tetras kuhli loaches and I want to buy cherry shrimp. And than, I would like to buy betta. But my loaches are really active. Everyone on youtebe was saying that kuhli loaches are shy and stay hidden, but I have four kuhli and they are swimming all over the aquarium. So the question is: will that be a problem that they are that active? Thanks :) And also, if you don't think it's the best idea to have these fish together, I'd be happy to hear your opinions and advice. it's my first aquarium and I fell in love with kuhli loaches, cherry shrimps and bettas and I wanted to have them, hopefully it's ok
Great video, thank you so much for that. I've had both types, but the cherry shrimp population died off at one point unfortunately.
Amanos can get really old, I still have one that I bought 8 years ago. The others I bought back then lived 3-6 years, this seems to be how long you can expect them to live on average.
An 8 year old shrimp?!?!?! Give me your secrets 😂
@@queenmolmolly7962 I'm afraid I have no secrets to share. It was only one out of six that survived that long, so it is probably only one exceptionally long-lived individual. I kept it together with platyfish in a heavily planted, mostly unheated tank. Due to the very dense plants I don't see it every day, but today I spotted it so I can confirm it's still alive
@@A._Meroy incredible congrats!
I just got 30 cherries for $20 off my facebook fish traders group.
Nuts in uk, it's 6 for £30 out fish shop
How did you know that I was JUST considering adding shrimp to my 10 gallon betta tank??? Sounds like the Amano would be the way to go in my situation. I need a good algae and biofilm eater, something big enough that won't be an easy snack, and I really don't want a million of them lol
Definitely not cherry shrimp with a betta, maybe an amano or a couple snails
Definitely Amanos for keeping algae under control in planted tanks. Great video Irene
Can I keep Cherry Shrimp or Orange Bee Shrimp with Ghost Shrimp? If so, will they cross breed?
Amano shrimp for me. They are more hardy. They cleaned up all my hair algae. They are like water cockroaches. When I drop shrimp pellets for my corys, they grab them and swim up top on a leaf plant like a leopard taking its kill up a tree.
Bought a pack of 10 amano shrimps ranging from 1/2 to 1 inch last year and they seemingly "vanished" in my aquarium. I was happy today to spot one of my amanos in my tank that has now grown over 2 1/2 inches. He came out of nowhere during feeding time and took off with a whole shrimp pellet.
I've noticed baby shrimp in my 20 gallon tank, the only shrimp I've had in there are Amano's. I do have very hard water, but it's not in any way brackish. Are they just not going to make it all the way to adulthood? Some of them are about the size of a dried bloodworm now and they seem to be moving around and living life just fine!
Did the baby shrimp make it?
@@flashtale Turns out they were Scuds, not baby shrimp. Their numbers are down compared to what they were but they're still around.
Awesome video as always, Irene!
I absolute love my cherries and feel like I will always have a tank for them.
I've got a female Amano shrimp I've had since my day 1 tank, over 10 years old!
Wow! That’s impressive :D
Amano Shrimp get work done
I bought two Amano and I enjoy watching the 2 of them.
I bought a few neocardina, and now after giving away dozens I have several hundred across three tanks. And the colors that I'm getting have changed and diverged in separated populations that were all started with the same few shrimp.
This answered pretty much all of my questions about Amano shrimp. I was hoping that they would be large enough to not become fast food for the tank i'm planning which is going to be mostly platies, albino cory cats, and mayyybe a single male betta. Basically a very pedestrian community tank.
I love Cherries all the way! I love my Cherries and Orange Bees although, I love the fact that they’re not hard to breed and they just look so darn cute with all their bright colors.
When do you cull cherry shrimp? How do you know cause I can't tell the small males with a little color from a bad female? Do you just wait for full colors?
Thanks for the video. Yamato shrimp generally only escape when the water conditions are not so good anymore for them.
Yeah mine are good in an open tank, lol, no jumpers of any sort in this one (I keep my panax covered, though)
Can female Amanos still look heavily pregnant without giving birth? In the video some of these Amanos look ready to drop and one of mine at home does too.
They will still carry eggs and the eggs will hatch, but the larva will die in freshwater within a day or two.
@@emilybrereton2900 Mine get berried but I haven't seen any indication that they actually hatch.
I would like to try shrimp one day. I'm not sure I could keep them alive. My water is 20dgh and the ph is about an 8.
Im sad...i dont have any fish yet my tank is new as of yesterday and cycling. When i do add fish i wanted 3 cherry shrimp. I love their looks but if Amanos are better for the health of the tank Ill get those. Thanks for making me sad...j/j of course
i think i like amano shrimp more. thats because how i enjoy looking at a tank i think. i like understocked tanks as they resemble nature to me a lot more. you dont go out to a lake or river, take a peak and see like 100 shrimps sitting on 60cm area. i actually enjoy not seeing stuff all the time because it makes you for them and then you re happy once you found them. i think seeing a shrimp or 2 here and there feels alot more relaxed than seeing an army of shrimps all the time. i rather have more variety in stock. instead of having a big shrimp colony, rather have a few amano, a snail or 2 and a handfull of fish so the tank just feels more rounded
Amanos are fascinating to watch eat. It’s like some type of farm equipment
Has anyone had success with keeping cherry shrimp with angelfish? My angels are very small. Their bodys are the size of a dime and a nickle.
2:58 21-27F° 😳
WHOOPS! 😨
GTF is my favorite thing on TH-cam. I have cherries in my planted tank with neons and corys. I expected the shrimp to breed but no babies yet. But I do see a new cory sneaking out of the rocks every couple of months so at least something in the tanks is breeding.
Omg I wish I watched this video before posting on Reddit about my “amano” shrimp giving birth to rainbow shrimp 😅😂 she was transparent when I first got her and she had a brown spot pattern on her back too!
Amano shrimp all the way
I didn't realise that "fancy" shrimp is very expensive in the West.
Just recently I bought cherry shrimps for just a little under 2$...
FOR 150 OF THEM. Though it is the cheapest I can find and for "normal"(slightly to kinda red) ones. If you aren't really searching, it's usually about 4¢ each In my country.
lol one fire red cherry shrimp was 7 dollars for me
I got a group of 4 cherry shrimp to take care of brown algae in my betta tank because the color looked great with my koi betta and plants. Of course the next day I could only find 3 and a betta with a full belly🙄🙄🙄 I think amano shrimp might work better due to size and semi translucence so wish me luck!
I have both but love them equally. I didn’t understand how aggressive the Amanos are about their food, and I have 5 ginormous females in 10 gallons with my betta and Bloody Marys. I would not recommend that many in a small tank, I really have to stay on top of feeding them.Thugs! You are spot on about spreading food around. Most of my Amanos come up for hand feeding when the betta gets fed, and they still squabble over food. LOL
Seriously cherry shrimp size is 8inci??
Well mine almost 1years n about 3inci+
I don't believe in tank overstocking as long as fish can move around and you keep up on water changes like a very dense guppy tank as long as the water is clean and the fish get fed you're good
My brothers going to college and they only allow one gallon fish tanks so I said to him well that’s to small for any fish so just get like 1 or 2 cherry shrimp but he said his college only allows fish
From my 4 amano shrimp, they all survived fert overdose, but 3 died from suicide 😭
Good information! I was interested in Amanos, but I’m afraid they might outcompete my Habrosa Corydoras for food. I already have two female guppies in the tank that hog the pellets!
I have amanos in with guppies and a honey gourami. The amanos will definitely each grab a sinking pellet and carry it away to eat. If they can reach and carry two, they'll do that too! But then it takes a while for them to eat. I break softer pellets in halves, quarters or more and spread them round the tank so everyone gets some.
Cherry shrimp have always been my favorite. First shrimp I've ever kept. Liked👍
Shhh, but I'm thinking of getting more Neocaridina shrimp in the future... 😍
Got two Amano shrimp over a year ago they are nice to watch swimming/running threw the water fast wee things when they want to be
Cherry shrimp solos beyond negative diff
I have a 10-gallon tank w 5 zebra danios. I'd like to add a 'cleaner' tankmate - perhaps a shrimp or snail? Any recommendations?
I like amano shrimp and I know my boss Cory likes pink ramshorn snails. 👍
@@GirlTalksFish thank you!! i love your videos.
Amano is better easy to breed eats alge that the cherry shrimps can't eat and that the cherry shrimps can eat it's bigger and have more tank mates .
2:55 are you saying in your correction they are going to like below freezing point?
I kept half a dozen cherry shrimp in a 3.5 Gallon. They were thriving for a few months and I even had a pregnant female... 😞 but I went away for the weekend and my kid dumped a whole bag of Shrimp Cuisine into their tank the day before I got back...😓
Jesus that’s tough
I like both I’ve found the Amano clean the tank better🦐
I have both in my 7.5 gallon planted nano ... 3 Amano and a dozen Cherry :)
Amanos for me since my mollies can’t eat them like M&Ms 😂😂.
At 3:00 you said 21 to 27F ? You meant Celsius?
My Amano shrimp lived for 7 years and was close to 7 cm
Love the content and the info therein
If only Amano shrimp were red! Amanos are a must for a planted tank, as it allows our balancing skills to be a bit off.
Rameshorn, narite, mystery and Malaysian trumpet snails
21-27F? Lol did you mean Celsius?
2:57
Wait is this not Gamers Wife? I’m confused 🤔
crytral Shrimp and cherry Shrimp is not same thing😅