Can Shrimp mixed with Neon Tetra and Goldfish?

[koala1971]

Hi All

I had this one and only shrimp abt 1.5cm length in a 2 feet fish tank together with 4 goldfish and 16 tetra. This morning wake up to find it "headless" and seem no legs. My poor daughter cried upon seeing the shrimp lying dead headless in the bottom of the tank. I have rear it for almost 3 weeks liao without any problem and had a hideout place for it. Can shrimp and goldfish rear together?

Any similar such incident of shrimp eaten up by goldfish?

Regards
Jason

[ngck]

Goldfish cannot. shrimp and tetra ok. But need hiding place for shrimp

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[Stormz]

Goldfish cannot. shrimp and tetra ok. But need hiding place for shrimp

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Best not to mixed with any fishes. Personally witness a rasbora eating a shrimplet with just one mouth.

[hardric]

Shrimps are fish food. Unless your tetras are very small, they would eventually eat or harass the shrimp. So its not advisable.
Anyway, if it was me, I wouldn't even keep goldfish and neon tetras together. Goldfish prefer colder water while tetras prefer warmer waters. Your goldfish will also outgrow your 2 feet tank.

[granzord]

i saw my cardinal tetra attack shrimp... especially those big sized sakura red blooded males lol....think to house them together is a failure for me... at first they live happily together....tought for a moment is fessible...

[stormhawk]

Most fish in particular are a bad idea to be kept with shrimps. You can keep them together, even with tetras in heavily planted tanks, but never in open tanks with little plant or deco cover. They will get eaten, heads and legs even. Only successful mix I've seen so far is Cherry Shrimp with Clown Killifish in a planted 2 feet tank. Even in such conditions, losing some shrimplets to predation is common.

Jason, goldfish will eat anything that can fit in their mouths, even smaller fishes if they can, although I believe the shrimp died and got eaten by the tetras. Probably the only crustaceans you can keep in a tank with goldfish would be crayfish. Even then, that can be a bad mix, since crayfish are able to kill fishes at night as they sleep. Plus, crayfish need a lot of hideouts for when they molt, because that is when they are subsceptible to attack from fish.

[Darylyap]

i agree too! don't keep fish with shrimps.

1 of my crs jumped out (died)... i highly suspect was harassed by the lone lamp eye...

now the remaining 4 crs have been ok for weeks liao, since i fished out the lamp eye...

[alvintcs]

I jus started a week with Sakura shrimp & the other type of shrimp, dunno wat name, orange in color.
Initially I placed the orange shrimp in my planted tank with guppies, and find that they spent most of their time hiding and not eating till I lost 4 of them. Now I keep all of them in a separate small tank with small plants and they are well.
My Sakura shrimp are preg and I have seen a few baby shrimp swimming ard.
Very interesting.

[Darylyap]

congrats alvin!

i hoping my crs will spawn (fingers crossed)... me no chiller so my temp is between 25 to 26 deg... was setup 1.5 mths ago...

i oso just setup small tank in office, temp is 20 to 21 deg, office aircon 24/7...
first 5 shrimps (4 crs & 1 cherry) survived their 1st nite (last nite)...

[marimo]

This morning wake up to find it "headless" and seem no legs.

could the corpse be a molted shell??

Its still down to a fish tank or shrimp tank.
Gold fish and shrimps .. cannot
unless you are saying yamato/malayan/wooden shrimp as maintenance crew which the gold fish mouth cannot gobble them up like snacks.

Otherwise shrimp tank mates can be boraras, tetra and other non aggressive dwarf fish.

[Punggoltan]

Strongly not recommended. Even with oto, I'm having worries of them disturbing my shrimps.

[hardric]

could the corpse be a molted shell??

Its still down to a fish tank or shrimp tank.
Gold fish and shrimps .. cannot
unless you are saying yamato/malayan/wooden shrimp as maintenance crew which the gold fish mouth cannot gobble them up like snacks.

Otherwise shrimp tank mates can be boraras, tetra and other non aggressive dwarf fish.

Since goldfish can grow up to 6-7 inches, I think they can swallow yamatos when they are fully grown.

[gid]

oh no, i was hoping to keep fish with my shrimps too...

What are some of the 'shrimp-friendly' fish?

Also, is it safe to keep one of those sucker fish with shrimps?

[hardric]

Boraras & Ottos would be a good choice. Others can, but sometimes they can attack or harass the shrimps.

The only way would be for your tank to be very well planted so that the shrimps can hide. The bigger the tank is, the better (of course, less fish).

[gid]

Oh ok I thought Ottos wont b good with shrimps. Since they scour the ground for food, I was worried they will eat the shrimp fries tt are hiding near the soil.

[marimo]

otto not exact bottom feeders but algae eaters .. they are not carnivores , they wont accidently eat shrimplets.

I do not exactly like otto as they will compete food ( i dont have brown / green algae in tank) and they will disturb shrimps and go on 'rage' sometime and uproot the carpet plants.

my boraras will also compete food some times. but they are good to clean up seed shrimps, white worms, mosquito larvae

however they are just the maintenance crew.

[Darylyap]

Strongly not recommended. Even with oto, I'm having worries of them disturbing my shrimps.

that came across my mind too... wonder will oto eat shrimplets???

[Darylyap]

that came across my mind too... wonder will oto eat shrimplets???

thanks marimo for the answer.

[Punggoltan]

Well, not that I know of. But those otto are actually eating up the excel that I'm trying to feed my shrimps.

that came across my mind too... wonder will oto eat shrimplets???

[Darylyap]

Well, not that I know of. But those otto are actually eating up the excel that I'm trying to feed my shrimps.

Excel by moruso is veg based?

i feed mine with bao zhen hong (fish food) & hikari shrimp food (think it;s 50:50 veg:meat)

my crs sapoo all...