How to Successfully Keep Cherry Shrimp in a Community Tank / Aquarium
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Hey all,
Today I wanted to fill you in on some tips for keeping shrimp in community tanks.
A lot of people struggle with this, and it can be done, by just following a few simple steps.
Hope you find this useful.
Good luck!
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I've had a 12 gallon cube tank with ember tetras, pygmy corys and cherry/Amano shrimp for 2 years now. Heavily planted, they love the java moss, and they breed pretty consistently to stock my other tanks.
Cannot agree more, very good piece of advice to put shrimps in a well planted aquarium and wait to mature the aquarium first. Ive noticed their favorite place is the "forest" of Limnophilia sessiflora. I've Neocaridina heteropoda (yellow fire) in a community tank and they believe they are fishes too 😂 Swimming all the time, very active.
In my sons tank he has RCS, bristlenose & endlers. So much breeding going on in there.
I did the opposite of what you said. Wished I would've saw this sooner. I threw them in yesterday in a tank with 6 zebra danios and a betta. Danios, I'm not too worried about but my betta was going after them.
However, I think they have a decent chance. My tank is a 20 gallon long and heavily planted. It's been cycled for 2 months now.
This was the only video I've found that goes into the order of placement. I am establishing my tank now with live plants, now I know to establish the shrimp before the fish. Thank you. I am planning on a few cherry shrimp, a couple amano, small guppy school, one Platy or one female powder blue Gourami, a few Khuli loaches, and one hillstream loach. I'd love your opinion on my community idea. I think the Platy or Gourami might be risky for the shrimp, but they will be plentiful and have cover.
Yeah i tend to agree, out of all of those the gourami is the main one that worries me. Eg my chocolate gouramis which are a lot smaller took out 20 or 30 shrimp in one day just for fun it seems, next to none of them were eaten just attacked.
Seems like a super fun community otherwise
@@BlakesAquatics oh my! Then I'll just do without the Gourami because I want the shrimp more. Thanks again!
Best of luck with it 👍
I know this is an old post but in my experience khuli loaches actively hunt down shrimp until there are no more left
Best video I’ve found on this topic, thank you!
Sage advice
Great tips Blake :)
Cool video thxs!
Glad you liked it!
I have Emerald Rasbora and some snails in my tank. Do they make good community tank friends for shrimp?
yeah definitely! i havent found them to have any issues with my shrimps, always a risk though
Thank you so much for info on the order of operations when it comes to stocking. The one very important piece of information missing from a lot of videos. I have a 50 gallon with Amano, Red Cherry, Ghost and vampire shrimp. Added a clown pleco today. Am thinking of Congo Tetra and would appreciate a.recommendation for one more species. Thanks again.
congo tetras get quite large and may be risky, as for my recommendation for a species, hillstream loaches could be a cool choice. Thanks for watching
Sorry for jumping in here (I’m currently looking for the answer to another question), but we kept Amano Shrimp in a community tank which has Congo Tetras in and they did get eaten. It wasn’t right away, but after a few days all the shrimp had gone.
@@danas1542 I have to call a spade a spade, no Congo Tetra for this tank.
Do have any ghost Advice for me I would like to put red cherry shrimp in with my ghost shrimp. What do you think?
Ghost shrimp are super hardy and can be considered to have basically the same care requirements as cherries
@@BlakesAquatics thanks for sharing your insight on how to raise shrimp
My shrimp is pregnant but they seem really stressed in my tank, should i separate her? (with a friend for company) or should i just let her be stressed in the tank
what makes you think shes stressed?
What is that plant in the tank right behind you? (the one on the upper right of the video) it is super cool
Pearlweed perhaps?
Great video! Question: when you say that rainbow fish like cherry shrimp for a snack, do you mean Melanotaenia or pseudomugil? I was thinking of adding some pseudomugils to my tank. Thanks!
Melanotaenia 😃 i have kept pseudo with shrimp fine. Most people dont consider pseudos "rainbows" rightly or wrongly
@@BlakesAquatics ah, thanks, and thank you for answering! 🙂
dont know why but i love your intro did you make it
yeah cheers
I have a 64 litre community tank and I have good cover(driftwood arch and rocks) on both on the back corners of the aquarium but it leaves an open space in the centre of the aquarium. I'm planning to add red cherry shrimp to it but I'm not sure what I could put in the centre, do you have any ideas?
Leave it open i reckon
@@BlakesAquatics would an amazon sword be alright? I have some speedy fish and I feel like their curiosity might not be too good for the shrimps so I don't think an open space wouldn't be the best option.
Great info mate but surely you have the capacity to use (Tanks for watching ) pun cheers
🤣 might have to
I have betta in my 8 gallon tank can ı put shrimp ?
Its always a risk
Great video mate, thanks for the information, what shrimp do u recommend with my new tank, its 29ltrs and I am gonna get a betta too, but Im cycling my tank for a month or two
Any colour neocaridina. (Cherry shrimp)
@@BlakesAquatics ok thanks mate, how many would u think to put in that size tank, I'm also putting two hillstream loaches too
@@KingsAquariumsAndAntWorld you could put a lot, like 30
@@BlakesAquatics ok thanks mate, keep up the good work
I've got guppies and Cory catfish and I've been trying to decide between snails or shrimp. What do you think would be the best option? It's been running for 3 months, 20 gallon heated tank with live plants. I need something to keep the algae at bay
Safest options would be otocinclus or a bristlenose catfish. Snails the better option vs shrimp
Snails owes they won't clean as fast but they won't get killed unless you want to make a breeding shrimp bucket. But shrimp can be food and cleaners for the fish
Hi, i have a comunity aquarium of 200L , i put adult cherry shrimps and its all good the fishes dont attack them! My consurn is about the babys shrimps and the filter is not a sponge one. What do u recomend??
Thanks.
I would recommend an intake sponge on the inlet to a hang on or canister filter 👍 good luck 😊
@@BlakesAquatics thanks,
Its a heavly planted with plattys guppies sword tail molly and néons with a lot of baby fishes too, i have seen a couple of baby shrimps and the fishes ignores them but i ONLY see those 2.. 😂 i got 5 females..
Thanks for the tips.
Iv had my community tank 60L with 11 neon tetras its ran for about 2 months it's not planted would I be able 2 have shrimp
It has a piece of drift wood and three ornaments all of which are hollow and accessible
its worth a shot. for best chance at success add them with the lights off, immediately after feeding the fish. this should give them time to find hiding spots and settle in
i will say though that the chances will be a lot higher with plants, even plastic plants
But guppies eat babyshrimp right?
They will snack on them here and there if they arent fully fed and if they are out in the open
Do shrimp need a heater to breed?
No not at all
@@BlakesAquatics I just saw a video that says that shrimp mature at about 6 months before breeding. I’ve been super concerned that I’ve been doing it wrong. So it’s a matter of waiting?
Would shrimp be safe with a dwarf ram cichlid prowling around?
No, rams would make short work of a shrimp colony
Hey Blake mate, shrimp like zombies in a movie.What you been drinking.Seriously though,love your content and always look forward to your videos.Phil in the UK
Haha fair call. Thanks mate
Shrimp before fish?
I keep reading the opposite
*INTERNALCONFLICT*
Always lowest on the food chain first so they can get away and find hiding spots
@BlakesAquatics Thanks!
It makes sense to me, but I'm new to the game and just got my 29-gallon planted tank set up 3 days ago.
I want a nice community tank and don't wanna see anything die 🤷♂️
lol
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Thanks so much 😀👌
Is adding a baby betta safer for shrimp?
Yeah that always helps 👍 and one that hasnt been fed live foods
@@BlakesAquatics dude you’re amazing. Glad I subscribed to you. Keep up the amazing work!!!
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