Adding Cherry Shrimp To a Betta Tank | Nano Aquarium
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- Adding Cherry Shrimp To a Betta Tank | Nano Aquarium
In this video we add some cherry shrimp to my nano Betta aquarium. We have to change over the filter to a sponge filter to make is safer for shrimplets and also give it a good clean. Cherry shrimp are a very good beginner shrimp and are very tolerant of temperature variations, which is ideal for this tank. Hopefully the betta fish will get on with them and not eat the cherry shrimp!
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I remember when I put shrimps in my betta tank, the betta immediately started chasing the biggest shrimp female the game last for more than 5 minutes but then shrimp decided to commit suicide and jumped out of the tank, I remember it was a big jump
Lol I added 2 cherry shrimp to my 8 gallon with 1 betta and 1 small snail along with 3 ghost shrimp. Betta immediately became super territorial and chased around the big female cherry shrimp til he bit her on the back and she died! Then he tried going after the big ghost shrimp. Wouldn't recommend adding shrimp if your betta is super territorial and mean 😢😭😭
Oh no
@@amt5015 not necessarily, it really depends on their personality. Some can tolerate shrimps, others hate shrimps. It’s a 50/50 chance really
Well no shit 😂
@@skrimper sadly that betta passed with old age :,,) I do have a new halfmoon who is super chill around the cherry shrimp, even went up to it and didnt attack. Bettas have different personalities!
So true. My halfmoon girl is NOT happy about the 3 cherries I added to her 5 gallon tank. There’s driftwood, live plants, fake plants, and 2 big hideaways so plenty of hiding places for the shrimp. One shrimp is currently hiding just out of reach on the heater suction cup and the other two have disappeared. They might have gotten gobbled up. My girl is still searching everywhere for them and it’s been about an hour.
I've tried Betta with cherry shrimps in a 55 gallon but i've never had success long term. The adult shrimps were perfectly fine, the Betta tested them but they were always able to get away so he eventually just left them alone. It was the baby shrimps the Betta would go after. I never saw the Betta actually eat the baby shrimps but the shrimp colony never really grew and declined over time. The shrimps were having babies but few were making it to adulthood. After the Betta was gone, the shrimp colony bounced back.
Yeah i think this will be the case here, probably just have adults for a while and the babies getting eaten
I feel like I got lucky. My Betta is pretty old and grumpy but she and my guppies completely ignored the CS I got. (And don't worry, they don't have fancy fins and I've never had problems with them and bettas) There's plenty of plants but they still happily swim in the open and none of my fish care. Thank god, I love seeing them swim around so openly. Only problem is when my Betta dies (she's getting old) and going to have to be careful to get another Betta compatible with cherry shrimp.... Hmmmm.
You didn't have enough hiding spots for em 👍
and it was a 55 gallon??? dangg
Bro you got Otocinclus Fish, Red Cherry Shrimp and a Snail what a perfect combination of algae eaters🐠🐌🦐😍
Looking forward to seeing how these shrimp do. Hopefully the betta doesn't eat them!
HOB filters just seem to drop the water down where it's inflow area is and doesn't seem to get any decent water movement around the tank as a whole.
Yeah not very good for getting flow around the whole tank
With a 'hang on back' filter it is always a good idea to put a small sponge over the water intake, but sponge filters work fine too.
Your betta is so cute!!! When he was curious about the shrimp, that was so adorable! ❤️
I'm pretty sure it's a female
It was cute anyways lol
I may be wrong...but I'm pretty sure that's a Female betta which she is Very beautiful!
Not the best idea betta are known for eating cherry shrimp. Wat I don’t understand why u try it if it’s well testet that he eats them . Pfc every betta is different some are really friendly but this are still animals and we should handle them with Respekt. But the shrimp are very large so u maybe get lucky
He's just ignoring them now, so I imagine he will leave them alone. However I do not expect shrimplets to survive. I have seen a lot of Betta kept with shrimp successfully but also many that have not. As you say it's down to the personality of the individual Betta, and I feel that this one is curious but not aggressive
How are the shrimps now? I just bought betta to my mature tank of some fish and shrimps too... so far so good. Fingers crossed...
Fine actually but no babies
“Don’t do it Don’t do it” 😆😆😆
Cherry shrimp still going strong, had any casualties?
No got a few babies
My Shrimps were disappeared after I put them in Betta tank although I use only Spongfilter.
0:12 Grian!?
Your Betta is adorable! I'm going out to buy myself some cherry shrimps tomorrow for my own 30L lone betta tank, hopefully everything goes well! A bit nervous about if my tank are planted enough, but time will show!
If you can put a small air stone inside your sponge on the end of the line it helps with noise from the large bubbles and also looks better than a volcano of bubbles. Nice Tank and lovely Betta
Thanks the airpump isn't too bad since I turned it down
I put a stone on mine, much better.
What an absolutely gorgeous betta!
What a beautiful betta 😍
Thanks
Beautiful tank, can I ask how you go about cleaning a planted tank?
I like your fush tank👍🏻
Cool hopefully they get along nicely 🌱🌱💪💪👍👍
Fingers crossed
where did you manage to buy shrimps from as im struggling to find them as not a lot of places are selling live stock due to covid by me
Luckily for me I work for one of the UKs biggest aquarium fish importer and wholesalers
soshrimp or flipaquatics
for US
ive got 4 cherry srhimps ALL BABIES. The guy at the store gave me babies i didnt even knew until i arrived home. I have a beta and mine likes to run around to catch them.. i try my best to separate them...i need to find some container to keep them or a separate aquarium to grow them out..
I just got 6 cherries shrimps today with a baby guppy(was planning on being a feeder to keep focus away from shrimp) in my 3.5 gallon tank and my betta couldn't care less about the cherry shrimp! The shrimp will literally walk/swim over him and he chases the baby guppy but eventually gives up. I low key hope he catches the fish cause I don't want it to get bigger and for the betta to eventually catch it and torture it instead of eating it one bite. Might get lucky and he might just acclimate to the guppy(looks female) but I don't see that happening in a 3.5 gallon. And this is day one he might get hungry and eat 1 one of the shrimps as a snack.Will keep updating
How did you cycle the sponge filter? Your water is rather cloudy.
The tank is mature enough to handle the bioload, its cloudy from debris, it will clear
This is exactly what I did, but I did it right away due to what I thought was the one massive flaw with the filter.
Um, we’re they ok after just getting put into the tank with getting acclimated? I heard a lot of people saying that acclimating shrimps are very important, but it seemed really hard.
Its not hard at all just look up drip acclimation.
@@skrimper Oh I meant that I didn’t have the equipments
Great video ! With the betta What were your tank makes? I think there was 2 species of fish with betta here
when i added bamboo shrimp to my 20 long betta tank my little betta did not care for even the smallest one. just looked at him and swam away
Wow they tank is disgusting! You haven't got a clue
Is it okay to only have bubbler for my shrimp? Im going to separate them from my 5 gallon tank and wait for them to have many babies before i add the adults to the tank
Definitely
@@EverydayAquarist oh thank you! I thought its not okay because im really scared that the shrimps will die if theres only bubbler inside
Most people only use air bubble filters for shrimp
@@EverydayAquarist No no what i meant is Air stone. So is it okay if theres only air stone in my shrimp tank?
How often I need to add bacteria? And nitritste minus?
I would imagine the back of the bottle has instructions
@@EverydayAquarist yes but I asking you as a more experience the bottled said that at every water change to add more bacteria
@@vasileiospetropoulos2046 that should be true for the first two weeks but afterwards as long as you don’t clean the filter with tap water then you’ll be fine
@@vasileiospetropoulos2046 in fact just don’t touch the filter.
@@apreil4821 gotta rinse it off in old tank water occasionally. They do get gunked up eventually
you can mod the fitter to have an air stone to make the bubbles smaller
Great video 👍
I only use air filters for my tanks now they work fabulous
Thank you, I'm happy with the new filter
How big is your nano? I have a 5 gallon I’m looking into it
30L
WTF is ramsey doing ?
Saying wow
your tank size?
How big is that tank
30l
@@EverydayAquarist ok
2:59 Wow
How many gallons is that?
What is this filter called
Shrimp look fantastic!
They are thanks. Doing well so far
I am adding 3 ml every x 6 days
Do they breed uncontrollably?
No they self regulate their population. Its impossible for them to get out of control
Are those Dwarf Rainbow fish?
Oryzias woworae
Did you cycle the sponge ? Also didn't see you drip acclimate the shrimp , using a net can damage the little shrimp , netter idea to pour them in
They are all fine over a week later so no problems