The only shrimp friendly fish is OTO. The rest is Tetra, guppies and etc... wont attack the adult shrimp. If you want to breed cherry, best is to go pure shrimp tank only.
The only shrimp friendly fish is OTO. The rest is Tetra, guppies and etc... wont attack the adult shrimp. If you want to breed cherry, best is to go pure shrimp tank only.
Ya true, better to keep shrimps with only shrimps, but don't know whether there's any species of shrimp which attack other shrimps too.
Last time I used to keep some beautiful big finned Serpae Tetras. I was disappointed with them because they attack their own species and bite off their beautiful fins. I will never keep Serpae Tetras again. Tetras I like most are: Balloon Red Eye Tetra, which are round bodied, not long and thin like ordinary Red Eye Tetra. Those tiny Lemon Tetras are also cute.
LIFE IS UNBEARABLE WITHOUT A FISH TANK!!!
I keep mostly small fishes with my shrimp. I'm generally not a lot concerned about losing some shrimplets. In spite of having loaches (Chain, hovering zebra, kuhli, panda), sparkling gourami, parosphromenus, dario, guppies, various small tetras (neon, gold, ember, ruby etc) pencilfishes, gobies (neon & rainbow), cories (pygmy & habrosus), boraras (brigittae, urophthalmoides, macuulatus, merah), danio (margaritatus, erythromicron) etc... I never had them hunting adult shrimps. The siscypus spend all of their time stalking adult and young shrimps, ignoring all the food, even the live daphnia and artemia. So it is an exception to be highlighted. However, eventually due to their lack of success in capturing the shrimps, they sadly starved to death. I no longer see them in the tank, and now the shrimps are back in the open eating again.
Just went to search on sicyopus, I saw the paragraph stated in seriouslyfish, see below
" Appears to be a specialised predator since it does not graze biofilm in the aquarium but willingly accepts small live or frozen foods such as bloodworm, Artemia, Daphnia, etc. Reports suggest that dried foods are ignored completely, and that this species does not make a good companion for small (live) invertebrates."
Did you read thoroughly? Lol
FYI. That was updated as a result of my feedback....
Oh my god... Lol
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