I got 25 red cherry shrimp 2 months ago and added them to a 30 gallon tank with 10 corydoras, 6 cardinal tetras, 3 platys and a honey gourami - none of the fish other than the Honey Gourami seem to even acknowledge them and the Honey gourami only did for about 1 hour when I first added them he was trying to touch them and watching them. I was surprised actually that the platys completely ignored them as I find them to be inquisitive fish but i've never seen them even look at them at all. The corys occasionally bump into them when feeding but they don't even seem to see them. I recently started to see babys, quite a lot mostly in moss but even today I seen 2/3 out and about, I have white sand seen one tiny one walking about out in the open, one was on the back glass and one on a piece of wood they are probably like - 0.3cm-0.7cm in size as well but no fish went near them. They improved my moss also somehow, I have java moss on a coconut shell cave thing roof and it was always kind of long and thin looking and I used to trim it once it got long, since I added the shrimp it got crazy bushy and dense instead and stays fairly short, I used to be able to like 1 month ago see kind of through it and all the shrimp in it now its near impossible to see inside its that thick and bushy. I live in Scotland also with soft water and very low kh and gh, like maybe 1 of both so when I do water changes I add a teaspoon of calcium carbonate it maybe only raises it to 2kh or so as its not that much. Seems to work as at least they are still alive, the babies are growing and i've seen the molting, every week I probably see one or two of their molts which I just leave and then they dissapear.
Wow, your water is even softer than mine. I guess in the grand scheme of things it's easier to have soft water than hard. Just add a bit of calcium like you're doing. Congrats on the baby cherries! Sounds like you have a good combination of fish, I bet you'll have a ton of shrimp soon! They'll eat the molts in the tank because it contains lots of good stuff for building new ones.
Great video! Just got two today for my paludarium. First time to keep anything like this. Did I acclimate them correctly? Will they survive? I guess we'll see!
Thanks! Lol, I don't think that they need to go through a super long acclimation process, but some folks do. They're pretty hardy, my money is on they will do great!
Part of that depends on your setup. If you have really strong lighting and CO2 you could probably pick whatever you want - personally I'm a big fan of monte carlo. If not, you might want to go with something like pygmy chain sword or small cryptocorynes. This site is awesome for browsing plants, I've spent way too much here 🤣 aquariumplantsfactory.com/
Have you noticed a difference in behavior among the different colors? My red cherry shrimp are always out and visible, while my blue, green, and yellow ones seem to hide all the time
That's interesting... I never thought about color influencing their behavior! I have noticed that the more shrimp in a tank, the more outgoing they are. I think it's a safety in numbers thing.
Do you keep cherry shrimp or another color? Which one's your favorite?
I got 25 red cherry shrimp 2 months ago and added them to a 30 gallon tank with 10 corydoras, 6 cardinal tetras, 3 platys and a honey gourami - none of the fish other than the Honey Gourami seem to even acknowledge them and the Honey gourami only did for about 1 hour when I first added them he was trying to touch them and watching them. I was surprised actually that the platys completely ignored them as I find them to be inquisitive fish but i've never seen them even look at them at all. The corys occasionally bump into them when feeding but they don't even seem to see them.
I recently started to see babys, quite a lot mostly in moss but even today I seen 2/3 out and about, I have white sand seen one tiny one walking about out in the open, one was on the back glass and one on a piece of wood they are probably like - 0.3cm-0.7cm in size as well but no fish went near them.
They improved my moss also somehow, I have java moss on a coconut shell cave thing roof and it was always kind of long and thin looking and I used to trim it once it got long, since I added the shrimp it got crazy bushy and dense instead and stays fairly short, I used to be able to like 1 month ago see kind of through it and all the shrimp in it now its near impossible to see inside its that thick and bushy.
I live in Scotland also with soft water and very low kh and gh, like maybe 1 of both so when I do water changes I add a teaspoon of calcium carbonate it maybe only raises it to 2kh or so as its not that much. Seems to work as at least they are still alive, the babies are growing and i've seen the molting, every week I probably see one or two of their molts which I just leave and then they dissapear.
Wow, your water is even softer than mine. I guess in the grand scheme of things it's easier to have soft water than hard. Just add a bit of calcium like you're doing. Congrats on the baby cherries! Sounds like you have a good combination of fish, I bet you'll have a ton of shrimp soon! They'll eat the molts in the tank because it contains lots of good stuff for building new ones.
That was an informative video, lots of good information. Thank you!
Thanks so much! That was my favorite cherry colony that I've ever had. Trying to get some good genetics going again!
Sweet video I learned a ton
Thanks, glad it was helpful!
Have a2.6 gallon cube, overgrown with red root floaters, they love it
Red root floaters are awesome, and shrimp definitely love them.
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Very good video, thank you.
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Great video! Just got two today for my paludarium. First time to keep anything like this. Did I acclimate them correctly? Will they survive? I guess we'll see!
Thanks! Lol, I don't think that they need to go through a super long acclimation process, but some folks do. They're pretty hardy, my money is on they will do great!
Do you use aerator? Thank you for the response!
Nope, I do not. It's not going to hurt things if you want to, but it's also not necessary.
What carpeting plant do you reccomend and where do you get it.
Part of that depends on your setup. If you have really strong lighting and CO2 you could probably pick whatever you want - personally I'm a big fan of monte carlo. If not, you might want to go with something like pygmy chain sword or small cryptocorynes. This site is awesome for browsing plants, I've spent way too much here 🤣 aquariumplantsfactory.com/
Have you noticed a difference in behavior among the different colors? My red cherry shrimp are always out and visible, while my blue, green, and yellow ones seem to hide all the time
That's interesting... I never thought about color influencing their behavior! I have noticed that the more shrimp in a tank, the more outgoing they are. I think it's a safety in numbers thing.