I have 2 kuhli loaches in my 15-gallon medium-planted tank with about at least 50 red cherry shrimps. They seem to go along just fine, with the smaller shrimps even crawling right above the kuhli loaches.
@@jarleabelhaugeek1217don’t suggest or condone it but I keep 4 yo yo loaches with my orange shrimp, Cory cats and neon tetra. It’s a big heavily planted rock and wood cave 20 gallon setup, I see new small shrimp often. Pretty against the rules but I think the presence of the cories and all the hiding spots and plants make it work
We moved my betta to a new tank. A 10-gallon, upgraded from a 7.5 gallon. We're planning on getting some new shrimp and turning his old 7.5 gallon into a shrimp tank, so I'm glad there are some videos like this that can help us figure out what kind of other things to put in there.
I have a school of chilly rasboras in a tank with two shrimp colonies (blue dreams and babaulti) and the get along just fine. Never experience the rasboras even looking at shrimplets and they are almost the same size as the adult shrimps. A perfect choice I believe!
Yup none of my bettas bother with shrimp except one. He won't touch any of the Queensland natives (which are smaller) but put in cherries and say goodbye
Bettas can have very distinct personalities with shrimp as tank mates, and similar to what you said, I've heard from lots of people that it's best to house them separately at first to see if the betta is aggressive on its own, and then introduce the betta to the shrimp tank instead of vice-versa, as even docile bettas can be territorial. My chill, curious boy mostly ignores his shrimp roommates now (and they usually just chill and do their thing on the bottom until he goes to sleep), but for the first couple weeks after introducing shrimp to his tank that he was already living in, he was angrily chasing them around. Fortunately he doesn't have any interest in eating shrimp or snails, but I was so worried they were gonna end up a snack or hide forever before things settled down
I keep shrimps with honey gouramis and I personally never had any issues. Even the shrimp fry gets mostly left alone. I probably wouldn't try it bigger gouramis though.
I have neon, cardinal and ember tetras, as well as 2 plecos and I’m constantly having to rehome excess shrimp from this tank because they are breeding so much! No issue at all with baby shrimp being eaten as I’ve got a heavily planted tank for them to be able to hide!
a really good addition for people who want something big in a shrimp tank are vampire shrimp/bamboo shrimp. I have a vampire shrimp thats about 5 inches long and saw him catch a fry in his fans and spit it out when he tried to eat it so theyre 100% safe
They're wonderful, aren't they? And they're true nano fish that can be kept in a decent school in a small tank. I'd have serious misgivings about keeping regular neons in a 10 gallon, but with green neons it's no problem. I absolutely adore them. Another of my favorites made this list: pygmy cories. I have a school of 8 pygmies with one of my bettas, and they're absolutely captivating. Lots of tiny fish school, but in a way that seems sort of...impersonal, for lack of a better word. The pygmies really interact, and seem to really enjoy each other's company. Lots of personality in such a little package!
So sorry I totally didn’t finish that comment. The blind betta ate like 10 of my shrimp till I pulled him and put him in a new tank. But the other bettas do really well with the shrimp. I have 3-10gal planted tanks and 3-5 gal planted, 2-3.5 gal regular freshwater tanks. I was always told how easy shrimp were but the only thing I knew was how easily it was for me to kill them. However after some much needed research and watching your TH-cam videos, now the tanks are thriving. I need to start selling them because they are doing so well. So thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!
Thanks for this info! I’ve got cherry shrimp in a 15G and no idea what to put in with them. Now I’m leaning towards Pygmy cories/chili rasbora or a group a male endlers. Great suggestions! ❤️🦐
My 3 pygmy cories get along very well with my shrimp. They totally ignore them in fact. I actually caught one of my shrimp teasing one of the cories, constantly touching it. The cory eventually got tired of this treatment and flicked the shrimp away like an annoying fly.
Awesome video Blake, I tried cherry shrimp with my half moon dumbo eared betta but he hunted them down but he's fine with amano shrimps. Keep up the amazing work
Thanks, Blake! I have 7 white clouds in w my RCS in a 20 gallon I had about 100 shrimp when I first put them in. They do eat a baby when they can get them but I can’t keep 1k shrimp I’d say lol 😍😪❤️
ive been keeping ember tetras with my colony and its been growing well, though i have noticed some of my embers looking pretty plump and colorful so they may be sneaking some fry in as snacks.
My betta fish won’t tolerate any other living thing in his tank, he’s alone in his 55litre planted tank. I tried adding him to a shrimp tank, with a betta tank on standby, and he harassed them into hiding, that was enough for me. Since realised the shrimp are happiest at 24-25 degrees, my betta does best at 28 degrees.
Albino long fin bristle nose looks spectacular in my planted shrimp tank never bothered the shrimp might get a bit big over time but I'll just get another 👍
Great video....lookin for a center piece fish in my community with live bearers and cherry shrimps. Lookin at sunset gourami and yellow glow fish skirt tetra.....leaning with the sunset. Keep rockin!
Bettas yeah. I heard this and wanted a dumbo betta. Got one and put him in my shrimp tank. All was going well that first day until the lights went out. Next morning when lights came on I was treated to the carcasses of 47 shrimp with shrimp body parts floating around and one very fat dumbo betta.🤣😂
I've had 3 male bettas in with shrimp (not all at the same time, of course). The first one was terrified of them (which shocked me tbh), the second couldn't care less, and the third flared a little at first but quickly settled down, so I guess it all depends on the betta 😂😂
Funny story I keep cherry shrimp with pea puffers, one of the puffers had a piece of brine shrimp hanging out of his mouth and a cherry shrimp swam up and stole the brine shrimp right out of the puffers mouth!
@@SlickNick3 have you tried ebay? www.ebay.com/itm/8-Algae-Eater-Ramshorn-Snails-Aquarium-or-Pond-Live-Snail-Clean-Up-Crew-/202820117314?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286
i bought around 10 cherry shrimp and put them in my guppy tank, since then i added golden rams. ive noticed the population die off. i had 1-2 left and today i noticed half a shrimp at the bottom of the tank, im pretty sure the golden rams ate them up. im starting a new tank just for shrimp and just getting it set up.
Just wanted to say DO NOT PUT BETTAS with Shrimps unless you want to give them a nice expensive meal, you can thank me later been there done that, bettas like to hunt and shrimps are very nice for them to eat.
I think wrestling halfbeaks are a good option, they only dwell at the top, plus they don’t like sinking food most of the time. Their mouths are also awkwardly shaped for eating shrimp, and they only get like 2-2.8 inches
Sparkling and Croaking Gourami might be alright. I keep Cherry Shrimp with my Sparkling Gourami and it's fine but might be a bit like the Betta thing, sometimes it's gray, sometimes it's mince meat. Great list though. Will help quite a few folk out to find shrimp mates I bet.
Pozdrav! Odlican video ! Da li mogu da se drze zajedno red shrimp i kolor tetre ,akvarijum mi je bas dosta ubiljen. Imam dosta ,neonki,gupika ,rodostomusa,i amano kozica Ubacio sam u akvarijum 150 lit. red cheri shremp oko 5 kom ,i ne mogu evo par dana da ih vidim nigde,jednu sam video samo ,i to je kolor tetra povijala malo ....
Zdravo! najbolje je dati vremena kozicama da se razmnože i napune akvarij prije dodavanja bilo koje druge ribe, trebat će nekoliko mjeseci da se to dogodi.
*I have learned to never mix shrimp with fish. Too risky. have two tetra Glofish and a female beta Glofish. All three have eaten dead Amano and Cherry shrimp.*
I have sparkling gourami with shrimp in the same tank and I've never seen any aggresion towards them, also Foo the Flowerhorn had them with shrimps. It could depend on the character of the fish.
Temperament of the fish is always a factor but please take some of the shrimp and keep a second colony as a backup just in case. I have tried licorice and sparkling gouramis multiple times and never worked out well
Betta’s are A good mate for shrimp, my North Australian Chameleon Shrimp are still breeding like crazy, have surely lost A few as snacks but not often enough to notice 👌🏼
@@BlakesAquatics thank you ... I have short listed some fish and shrimp please suggest which one to go with .. Amano and cherry red shrimp.. Hillstream loaches.. Asian stone cat fish .. Corydoras .. Bumbelbee goby .. Neon tetras ... Green zebra danios ..celestial danios.. Any suggestis from your side in welcome.. Ps i live in india
Loved this video. I really want to get a tank with some moss & shrimp & fish way down the line. What shrimp do you suggest to put together? I really like: Sulawesi shrimp, tiger shrimp, and the bee shrimp. Can they be together?
You can’t mix shrimp species. Every species requires different water parameters. Not as easy as it may look. Shrimp can be very sensitive and finicky. The easier shrimp to keep are Neocaridina, they are the least sensitive but the Taiwan bee and Sulawesi and tigers are much more sensitive and need more specific water parameters.
My double veiled fin betta is a junvinile and got introduced to a heavily planted shrimp tank because I have never seen such a chill betta. He doesn't chase or hunt for the blue velvet shrimp. They are also much faster than him. One shrimp noticed him looking at him and jetted away. My betta just watched him swim away and didn't chase. My betta also doesn't bother the 2 mystery snails in my tank (unlike my last one, who chose war with anything that moved), doesn't flare at all and swims right up to my fingers and plays. It's so weird, but so far so good.
I have about 10 different species in a 27g cube without issue. Ghost shrimp, cherry shrimp, tiger barb, gourami, candy cane tetras, glowlight tetras, black rasboras, zerba danios and corycats
giday i have a 4ft heavly planted tank i have heaps of shrimp colonised than introduced neons than sords and mollys believe it or not every thing is happy and breeding
Have you tried Mexican dwarf crayfish with cherry shrimp before? Doing a bit of reading and people seem to have had some success with them together... Obviously I would wait a long while before adding one to my 10g shrimp tank to give the cherries time to populate.
I just put 11 cherry shrimp in my community tank because the African dwarf frogs kept eating them.. only problem community tank has a big upside catfish 3 kuli loachs 2 corys and 3 gouramis ..are they all gona die?
@@BlakesAquatics 2 weeks later and atleast 8 out of 11 shrimps are still in the tank and one has eggs :o the other 3 are ethier hiding or got eaten! Surprisingly the shrimp are not afraid of the corys or the loachs atall and see them happily chilling with them all the time.. the gouramis dont seem interested in the shrimp atall and the catfish just swims in the same spot all day anyway n is only realy active at night.. so it might work out ok?
I just put a few shrimp with my "super chill" beta and he went psycho. I feel terrible for these poor shrimp but I think he'll chill out...I hope, anyways. Making sure you have a backup plan is a great idea, that i didnt think about before.
Platies usually don't bother adult shrimps. If they have enough hiding places, they will be ok. However, platies won't let them breed, unless your tank is densely planted
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“Fish jerky on the floor” that’s worth watching the video all by itself. Sounds like a great name for a punk band
I have 2 kuhli loaches in my 15-gallon medium-planted tank with about at least 50 red cherry shrimps. They seem to go along just fine, with the smaller shrimps even crawling right above the kuhli loaches.
Interesting! Is it still going well?
@@jarleabelhaugeek1217don’t suggest or condone it but I keep 4 yo yo loaches with my orange shrimp, Cory cats and neon tetra. It’s a big heavily planted rock and wood cave 20 gallon setup, I see new small shrimp often. Pretty against the rules but I think the presence of the cories and all the hiding spots and plants make it work
Had shrimp with discus. Was fine tell about 4.5”. Over the course or 2-3 days 30 ish shrimp were gone
Sorry about that
We moved my betta to a new tank. A 10-gallon, upgraded from a 7.5 gallon. We're planning on getting some new shrimp and turning his old 7.5 gallon into a shrimp tank, so I'm glad there are some videos like this that can help us figure out what kind of other things to put in there.
How’s it going now?
I'm thinking of adding shrimp to my daughter's chili rasboras aquarium. They seem too small to bother the shrimp.
I have a school of chilly rasboras in a tank with two shrimp colonies (blue dreams and babaulti) and the get along just fine. Never experience the rasboras even looking at shrimplets and they are almost the same size as the adult shrimps. A perfect choice I believe!
I also have Chili Rasboras in my shrimp tank, you should be fine doing that
Say No To Fish Jerky 😂
Those micro rasboras like chillis are pretty much a 100% safe bet simply because they are way too small to be a threat
Yup none of my bettas bother with shrimp except one. He won't touch any of the Queensland natives (which are smaller) but put in cherries and say goodbye
Mine loves killing shrimp.
Bettas can have very distinct personalities with shrimp as tank mates, and similar to what you said, I've heard from lots of people that it's best to house them separately at first to see if the betta is aggressive on its own, and then introduce the betta to the shrimp tank instead of vice-versa, as even docile bettas can be territorial. My chill, curious boy mostly ignores his shrimp roommates now (and they usually just chill and do their thing on the bottom until he goes to sleep), but for the first couple weeks after introducing shrimp to his tank that he was already living in, he was angrily chasing them around. Fortunately he doesn't have any interest in eating shrimp or snails, but I was so worried they were gonna end up a snack or hide forever before things settled down
Yea mine killed many of my shrimps, sadly.
I keep shrimps with honey gouramis and I personally never had any issues. Even the shrimp fry gets mostly left alone.
I probably wouldn't try it bigger gouramis though.
Great feedback cheers
I have neon, cardinal and ember tetras, as well as 2 plecos and I’m constantly having to rehome excess shrimp from this tank because they are breeding so much! No issue at all with baby shrimp being eaten as I’ve got a heavily planted tank for them to be able to hide!
Hillstream loaches are one of my favorite combinations with my CRS.
Oh yeah all those algae eating hillstream species are great with shrimp. My personal favorite are stiphodon species
a really good addition for people who want something big in a shrimp tank are vampire shrimp/bamboo shrimp. I have a vampire shrimp thats about 5 inches long and saw him catch a fry in his fans and spit it out when he tried to eat it so theyre 100% safe
I LOVE my green neon tetras. I think they're prettier than cardinal or neon tetras. Happy to see the green neon love! 💙
They're wonderful, aren't they? And they're true nano fish that can be kept in a decent school in a small tank. I'd have serious misgivings about keeping regular neons in a 10 gallon, but with green neons it's no problem. I absolutely adore them.
Another of my favorites made this list: pygmy cories. I have a school of 8 pygmies with one of my bettas, and they're absolutely captivating. Lots of tiny fish school, but in a way that seems sort of...impersonal, for lack of a better word. The pygmies really interact, and seem to really enjoy each other's company. Lots of personality in such a little package!
The only problem betta I had with my shrimp was my blind one. I think it was cause his senses were heightened.
So sorry I totally didn’t finish that comment. The blind betta ate like 10 of my shrimp till I pulled him and put him in a new tank. But the other bettas do really well with the shrimp. I have 3-10gal planted tanks and 3-5 gal planted, 2-3.5 gal regular freshwater tanks. I was always told how easy shrimp were but the only thing I knew was how easily it was for me to kill them. However after some much needed research and watching your TH-cam videos, now the tanks are thriving. I need to start selling them because they are doing so well. So thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!
Great follow up! Congrats 🙌
Thanks for this info! I’ve got cherry shrimp in a 15G and no idea what to put in with them. Now I’m leaning towards Pygmy cories/chili rasbora or a group a male endlers. Great suggestions! ❤️🦐
My 3 pygmy cories get along very well with my shrimp. They totally ignore them in fact.
I actually caught one of my shrimp teasing one of the cories, constantly touching it. The cory eventually got tired of this treatment and flicked the shrimp away like an annoying fly.
Awesome video Blake, I tried cherry shrimp with my half moon dumbo eared betta but he hunted them down but he's fine with amano shrimps. Keep up the amazing work
Amanos are tough little guys
My amanos used to live with angelfish!!!
Dude said fish-jerky
Thanks, Blake! I have 7 white clouds in w my RCS in a 20 gallon I had about 100 shrimp when I first put them in. They do eat a baby when they can get them but I can’t keep 1k shrimp I’d say lol 😍😪❤️
ive been keeping ember tetras with my colony and its been growing well, though i have noticed some of my embers looking pretty plump and colorful so they may be sneaking some fry in as snacks.
My betta fish won’t tolerate any other living thing in his tank, he’s alone in his 55litre planted tank. I tried adding him to a shrimp tank, with a betta tank on standby, and he harassed them into hiding, that was enough for me. Since realised the shrimp are happiest at 24-25 degrees, my betta does best at 28 degrees.
sorry to hear. yep they all have their own personalities
Bettas are terrible
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic no they aren't lol. Not all the time. The only terrible living thing is humans. Well, some of them.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic i'm offended, if you dislike bettas then GET OUT THIS COMMENT IS ABOUT A BETTA
@@MothobiusI agree, how we treat animals is disgusting
In my own experience, betta is a no-no. At least my betta is a bastard and killed 3 shrimps 😭
Albino long fin bristle nose looks spectacular in my planted shrimp tank never bothered the shrimp might get a bit big over time but I'll just get another 👍
Ive never owned a nice gourami. They've always bit at everything.
Neon tetras keep picking off and killing my cherry shrimps
Great video....lookin for a center piece fish in my community with live bearers and cherry shrimps. Lookin at sunset gourami and yellow glow fish skirt tetra.....leaning with the sunset. Keep rockin!
Sounds great!
Bettas yeah. I heard this and wanted a dumbo betta. Got one and put him in my shrimp tank. All was going well that first day until the lights went out. Next morning when lights came on I was treated to the carcasses of 47 shrimp with shrimp body parts floating around and one very fat dumbo betta.🤣😂
😳 so sorry to hear
@@BlakesAquatics it’s alright. Trial and error. I got a betta out of it and he’s cool.
It depends the betta fish, I had a female beta and she was so chill, never hurt any of my shrimps. They’re all different
I've had 3 male bettas in with shrimp (not all at the same time, of course). The first one was terrified of them (which shocked me tbh), the second couldn't care less, and the third flared a little at first but quickly settled down, so I guess it all depends on the betta 😂😂
Nice mustache
Thanks 🤣
The great thing about hillstream loaches is that they will eat Blackbeard algae as well.
My betta is a vicious murderer. I can only keep snails and know that he will not kill them, anything else, dead.
Sorry to hear, always the pretty ones that have attitudes 😄
What about guppies? I’ve places guffies and now I can’t see my shrimps often 😔
Nah guppies are a good chance to eat shrimp
@@BlakesAquatics yeah the big ones are still there ... but the small shrimp fries are all gone :(
I've got hillstreams, kuhli and a ghost knife in my shrimp tank
Funny story I keep cherry shrimp with pea puffers, one of the puffers had a piece of brine shrimp hanging out of his mouth and a cherry shrimp swam up and stole the brine shrimp right out of the puffers mouth!
Hahaha so do i actually
Do you guys have lots of snails in that tank? And if so what kind? Ram's horn?
I am unable to get rams horn snails where I am I can’t find them anywhere! so I occasionally feed bladder snails
@@SlickNick3 have you tried ebay?
www.ebay.com/itm/8-Algae-Eater-Ramshorn-Snails-Aquarium-or-Pond-Live-Snail-Clean-Up-Crew-/202820117314?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286
I may have to get some eventually I’ve always wanted some!
I have dwarf rasbora in 2 shrimp tanks with no problems at all.
In a 8 1/2 gallon would one Pea Puffer eat my Amano Shrimp?
How about bumblebee goby are they good tank mate for shirmp
Great video mate, I love the species spotlight videos the best.
Glad you like them!
Can you use an aquarium decoration that has glow in the dark paint on it in a shrimp tank?
i bought around 10 cherry shrimp and put them in my guppy tank, since then i added golden rams. ive noticed the population die off. i had 1-2 left and today i noticed half a shrimp at the bottom of the tank, im pretty sure the golden rams ate them up. im starting a new tank just for shrimp and just getting it set up.
My beta eats shrimp but gets along well with tetras.
Did i hear correct? Shrimp will eat the unslightly Nerite eggs from the decor???
They eat some soft eggs, i think nerite eggs would be too hard
what about White Cloud Mountain minnows
Wish I had watched this video a month ago lol
Espei rasboras are pretty, hardy, and work great with my shrimp.
Just wanted to say DO NOT PUT BETTAS with Shrimps unless you want to give them a nice expensive meal, you can thank me later been there done that, bettas like to hunt and shrimps are very nice for them to eat.
thank you, I was debating if I should try, I heard it was differend from betta to betta
Yoyo loach, dwarf chain loach, cardinal tetras, reticulated hillstream loach and lots of other snails are what I have in my community tank.
Nice to see some Killifish make the list...
🤣
I got rid of my endlers because they hunt down shrimp babies like fucking sharks.
Interesting, fish can always have their own personalities i guess
I think wrestling halfbeaks are a good option, they only dwell at the top, plus they don’t like sinking food most of the time. Their mouths are also awkwardly shaped for eating shrimp, and they only get like 2-2.8 inches
They tend to want more brackish conditions though
Sparkling and Croaking Gourami might be alright. I keep Cherry Shrimp with my Sparkling Gourami and it's fine but might be a bit like the Betta thing, sometimes it's gray, sometimes it's mince meat.
Great list though. Will help quite a few folk out to find shrimp mates I bet.
my beta attacked my shrimp
oh no! sorry to hear
Pozdrav!
Odlican video ! Da li mogu da se drze zajedno red shrimp i kolor tetre ,akvarijum mi je bas dosta ubiljen.
Imam dosta ,neonki,gupika ,rodostomusa,i amano kozica
Ubacio sam u akvarijum 150 lit. red cheri shremp oko 5 kom ,i ne mogu evo par dana da ih vidim nigde,jednu sam video samo ,i to je kolor tetra povijala malo ....
Zdravo! najbolje je dati vremena kozicama da se razmnože i napune akvarij prije dodavanja bilo koje druge ribe, trebat će nekoliko mjeseci da se to dogodi.
Thanks!
Good content. Thanks for uploading
Thanks for watching!
*I have learned to never mix shrimp with fish. Too risky. have two tetra Glofish and a female beta Glofish. All three have eaten dead Amano and Cherry shrimp.*
Fair call
I have sparkling gourami with shrimp in the same tank and I've never seen any aggresion towards them, also Foo the Flowerhorn had them with shrimps. It could depend on the character of the fish.
Temperament of the fish is always a factor but please take some of the shrimp and keep a second colony as a backup just in case. I have tried licorice and sparkling gouramis multiple times and never worked out well
Great timing, I was just about to get a some cherry shrimp!
Perfect!
Number 1 : Me
🤣 poor genetics
Thanks for sharing your Experience....
Dont have an area in my 50 that the shrimp aren't in. They live in the floaters, mid in the stem plants
my male halfmoon betta killed all my shrimps
Sorry to hear
Betta’s are A good mate for shrimp, my North Australian Chameleon Shrimp are still breeding like crazy, have surely lost A few as snacks but not often enough to notice 👌🏼
Nice list. I have most of those in a community tank right now. Unfortunately we're not allowed shrimp here in WA. Not even native ones.
Sounds like an awesome tank 👌
Seriously? Doesn’t Cory with Aquarium Co-Op sell shrimp?
Western australia not washinton
@@BlakesAquatics should have known that by your accent. 😆👍🏾
You Missed Chilli Rasbora awesome in a shrimp tank :D
I just looked them up after reading your comment, and they are so beautiful, I hope to find some at my local fish store
Chilie Rasboras
Smashed that like button so hard I shattered my phone screen!!! Thanks Blake, keep up the great work!
P.S. the mustache is thriving
Yes! Ottos! Great tip with the rocks!
Do you have any recommendations for centerpiece fish for cherry shrimp? And are ember tetras okay? Amazing video! Thanks!
Typically anything larger is going to eat shrimp. Ember tetras are fine 👍
I have cherry barbs with my shrimp
Glad thats going ok 👍
I think I’ll go with endlers. They’re very pretty
I've kept white clouds and leopard danios with my adult cherry shrimp with absolutely no problems so far.
Awesome 👍
Can hillstrem lonch are good for shrimp tank..??
yes definitely
Can you.. tell me What kind of Tetra Can do the shrimp tank.. im from sri lanka.. and we dont have Lot of fish.. in Covid case..??
@@monsterwithsandeeptha green neon tetra, rasboras
I just bought some 👻 shrimp but I was thinking to put it in the same tank with my 2 Goldfish; whats your thoughts about it ?
My betta destroyed my shrimp.
sorry to hear.
Can I keep widow tetra with shrimp ?
I wouldnt risk it. Probably eat them
Can swordtail live with shrimps?
they will probably eat any baby shrimp but in densely planted tanks it can work.
@@BlakesAquatics Thanks
Can you get larger species of shrimp in aus?
Can cherry barbs and shrimp live together
Id say no, the barbs are pretty quick to eat the shrimp
@@BlakesAquatics ohh thanks...
@@BlakesAquatics can I keep nerite snails with cherry barbs .... And also do tell me can guppies live with cherry barbs ?
What about khuli loaches??
Loaches are generally not a great idea. I havent tried it before but id say no
@@BlakesAquatics thank you ... I have short listed some fish and shrimp please suggest which one to go with .. Amano and cherry red shrimp.. Hillstream loaches.. Asian stone cat fish .. Corydoras .. Bumbelbee goby .. Neon tetras ... Green zebra danios ..celestial danios.. Any suggestis from your side in welcome.. Ps i live in india
@@koushikarepally8865 I think amano shrimp, cherry shrimp, Celestial Pearl Danios and Pygmy Corydoras makes a super awesome tank combo.
Loved this video. I really want to get a tank with some moss & shrimp & fish way down the line. What shrimp do you suggest to put together? I really like: Sulawesi shrimp, tiger shrimp, and the bee shrimp. Can they be together?
Hi, they all require different water parameters so sadly dont mix well together.
You can’t mix shrimp species. Every species requires different water parameters. Not as easy as it may look. Shrimp can be very sensitive and finicky. The easier shrimp to keep are Neocaridina, they are the least sensitive but the Taiwan bee and Sulawesi and tigers are much more sensitive and need more specific water parameters.
Another good one is pseudomugils.
For sure!
Yes! Love green neon tetras! 🐟💖
I have a few shrimp with my rummy nose tetras.
Threadfin rainbows?
Hmm they are tricky.. might do a bit too much snacking id think
My double veiled fin betta is a junvinile and got introduced to a heavily planted shrimp tank because I have never seen such a chill betta. He doesn't chase or hunt for the blue velvet shrimp. They are also much faster than him. One shrimp noticed him looking at him and jetted away. My betta just watched him swim away and didn't chase. My betta also doesn't bother the 2 mystery snails in my tank (unlike my last one, who chose war with anything that moved), doesn't flare at all and swims right up to my fingers and plays. It's so weird, but so far so good.
Every fish is so different, I keep yo yo loaches with orange shrimp. If you know what you’re doing you can get away with it
thanks !!!
I have about 10 different species in a 27g cube without issue. Ghost shrimp, cherry shrimp, tiger barb, gourami, candy cane tetras, glowlight tetras, black rasboras, zerba danios and corycats
Well done 👍 hope it continues to work long term
@@BlakesAquatics Thanks! I've lost a few but all around it's been working
giday i have a 4ft heavly planted tank i have heaps of shrimp colonised than introduced neons than sords and mollys believe it or not every thing is happy and breeding
Fantastic!
Have you tried Mexican dwarf crayfish with cherry shrimp before? Doing a bit of reading and people seem to have had some success with them together... Obviously I would wait a long while before adding one to my 10g shrimp tank to give the cherries time to populate.
I dont think they are legal here
@@BlakesAquatics Oh sorry, I'm in Canada and have seen them in my LFS. Thanks for the quick reply!
Good video Blake, loving the content 😁❤🦐
Thanks so much
I just put 11 cherry shrimp in my community tank because the African dwarf frogs kept eating them.. only problem community tank has a big upside catfish 3 kuli loachs 2 corys and 3 gouramis ..are they all gona die?
most likely yes.
@@BlakesAquatics 2 weeks later and atleast 8 out of 11 shrimps are still in the tank and one has eggs :o the other 3 are ethier hiding or got eaten! Surprisingly the shrimp are not afraid of the corys or the loachs atall and see them happily chilling with them all the time.. the gouramis dont seem interested in the shrimp atall and the catfish just swims in the same spot all day anyway n is only realy active at night.. so it might work out ok?
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I just put a few shrimp with my "super chill" beta and he went psycho. I feel terrible for these poor shrimp but I think he'll chill out...I hope, anyways. Making sure you have a backup plan is a great idea, that i didnt think about before.
CPD's are rather expensive in oz. I haven't seen any in shops
I ship a tonne of then out and stock my local monthly 👍
Doctor Fish can be tank mates of RCS?
Im not sure sorry they are illegal in australia
Is there any possibility that the snails would climb out of the aquarium?
It does happen somethimes
@@BlakesAquatics very often to be honest
thanks for the video! so platy is no no?
Ive got it working at the moment, it can be done if you feed the platys well but it is a risk
@@BlakesAquatics thanks for the fast reply ;)
Any time
Platies usually don't bother adult shrimps. If they have enough hiding places, they will be ok. However, platies won't let them breed, unless your tank is densely planted
Thanks mate
Happy to help
could you keep molly fish with cherry shrimp or ghost shrimp ?
I wouldnt, mollies have really big mouths made for eating shrimp :)
What about Apistos?
I wouldnt. Quickly theyd become snack
spendy...
Yes