what kind of fish that can go with cherry shrimp?

[Urban Aquaria]

Other than mosquito larvae, once planaria and detritus worms start crawling around and copepods are dancing about, you'll probably be looking at fishes that can help manage them too.

To handle all those critters, i agree with the rest in considering Boraras Brigittae (or any of the other small boraras species, though brigittae tends to be more popular due to their deep red coloration). They stay small and have slim profiles, even when fully grown they are often still smaller than adult cherry shrimps, hence their individual bio-loads are very low too. For your tank size, which i guess from the photo should be around 12-13 litres, you should be able to house 5-6 of them quite comfortably (if you have good filtration and do regular tank maintenance/water changes).

Although boraras fishes will occasionally snack on new born shrimplets, if your shrimps are healthy and breeding often (and you can add more plants for them to hide in the tank), enough of the shrimplets should survive and grow large enough not to be eaten, so the shrimp population will still grow over time.

[gigisakura]

Aaaa sorry but in Chinese what they called?? Cause I go fish shop I stare at all the fish I dunno what is what >…<

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[Berny]

go to green chapter website and look at the picture, it's safer than trusting shop labels. usually they're about 1/2 cm and have a slightly red hue on them. currently gc has them, jzx have last week.

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[seudzar]

clown would fit cherry but cherry wouldnt fit clown, because if the clown spawns, the cherry would eat the eggs while the clown wouldnt even bother to care

Don't think the cherry would touch the eggs as I have not problems with sakuras and my hastatus eggs.

[Urban Aquaria]

Aaaa sorry but in Chinese what they called?? Cause I go fish shop I stare at all the fish I dunno what is what >…<

For those neighborhood LFS who like to use fancy trade names for their fishes... they'll usually be labelled as "mosquito rasbora" or "chilli rasbora" (sometimes they also label using the direct chinese translation of those names).

Note that very often the Boraras Brigittae are mixed with Boraras Merah (and sometimes even Boraras Urophthalmoides), as they all look very similar when stressed and pale in LFS tanks... so if you buy them without checking closely, you might end up with a tank of mixed species with different colors.

Here are some photos to show their differences (photos from seriouslyfish.com):

Boraras Brigittae



Has a long black line in the middle and the deep red color is on the whole body and on the fins.

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Boraras Merah



The black marking on this fish is like an "eye" shape in the middle of the fish, not like a line as in Boraras Brigittae... in addition, the color of this fish is alot less intense and more orange. Many LFS commonly mis-label this particular fish as Boraras Brigittae and its often mixed in with them too.

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Boraras Urophthalmoides



Has a long black line in the middle of its body, but there is a distinct larger black dot at the tail too, the body is also more of a light translucent orange in color.

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When picking boraras fishes, make sure you choose the larger active ones with the strongest colors (most of them will be small juveniles and look very pale in the LFS tanks, so you'll need to spend some time finding the best ones), those will likely grow into adults with very nice coloration.

Hope the photos and descriptions are helpful.

[limz_777]

from the pic , there is a internal filter at the left corner ?

[gigisakura]

Okie I need redo the tank.. But will go see Clementi n sunset fish shop for the red one..

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[gigisakura]

I'm super New in doing shrimps...

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[saintdevilz]

i think amber tretra?

[riise78]

How abt cardinal tetra? Shd be safe to mix with shrimps ya?

[Berny]

cardinal no, too big, shrimplets will get eaten

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[qngwn]

Fishes will eat anything that suits its diet, and can fit into it's mouth. No matter how small the mouth of the fish is, it can still peck the shrimp until it knocks out, then slowly take it's time on it. It will just make things faster if the mouth is bigger.

[riise78]

cardinal no, too big, shrimplets will get eaten

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really?
That's bad, I hv 20pcs of them!

[erwinx]

Neon Tetras / Black Neons I find are ok with shrimp because they don't exhibit hunting/scavenging behaviour and burrow through densely planted areas in search of food. So shrimplets should be safe in densely planted aquariums. The Neons/ Black Neons prefer open areas to swim.

Guppies on the other hand are scavengers who wiggle through the densest plants to look for food, which means that there is a possibility that they will 'hunt' for shrimplets.. Having said that, I have some cherry shrimplets that survived despite guppies in the tank. My guppies don't seem that interested in the shrimp. But they like to nibble at algae wafer, thus disturbing the shrimp....

[aquanick]

I keep mine with mountain minnows.. but it all depends on the density of moss or other plants in the tank.. i have kept them with neons also and still found their numbers to grow in a moss tank..

[Urban Aquaria]

really?
That's bad, I hv 20pcs of them!

Its actually okay... as long as you are not planning to specifically breed expensive shrimps, the fishes will just get access to free live food (aka shrimplets) and the shrimp population will just grow at a slower pace.

[riise78]

Its actually okay... as long as you are not planning to specifically breed expensive shrimps, the fishes will just get access to free live food (aka shrimplets) and the shrimp population will just grow at a slower pace.

Noted Bro, lucky I only have normal grade shrimp.
Thanks!