Fish and shrimp compatibility

[Kristen]

Saw some shrimps on sale in the marketplace and thought of adding some shrimps to my tank. Will they be compatible with an SAE, White Cloud Mountain Minnows and Galaxy Rasboras?

[d2sign]

Any fish that has a carnivorous diet in the wild can be a potential danger to shrimp.

If unsure use this motto: if it can fit it in its mouth then it could be dangerous. Any fish can also nip at a shrimp until it dies, then eat it.

100% confident to list as shrimp safe:

Ottos

Potentially harmful:

Plecos

Guppies

Endlers

Rasboras

Cory's

Danios
Tetras

Do not house:

Cichlids

Discus

Angels

Gouramis

..any other fish not mentioned could be harmful

Source from planetinverts.com, can read the full article here: http://www.planetinverts.com/safe_ta...or_shrimp.html

[yyylarry]

put tetra as harmful please~!... saw my 20 + neon tetras tear apart one of my cherry couple of days ago.

Begin operation rescue for the remaining shrimps from fish tank.. to my pure shrimp tank.

[d2sign]

Sad sad... The key is to provide enough hiding place when house with other fishes, else just keep them in a pure shrimp tank.

[diki]

It is even more important if you keep shrimps that breed well. Cherry, CRS, grass shrimp (I buy from C328 long time ago) comes into mind. Your shrimplets may not survive or less survivors if kept with fishes, even with enough hidding spaces.

Unless you prefer a pure shrimp tank, it is still possible to keep some fishes in the tank. Below are the ones that I have kept before, which is ok with shrimps around and still see shrimplets:

1. Boraras (currently kept a school of mosquito rasbora. Since just buy yesterday, should be ok since they are really small. Even my boraras is bigger by twice their size (well fed))
2. Clown killies
3. Amber tetra. (They don't seems to grow much. Maybe hid too much since there is only 2.)
4. Galaxy Rasboras

I agree with the size of the mouth of the fishes determines which shrimp to keep, except yamotos, wood and armored shrimps.

[Quixotic]

I agree with the size of the mouth of the fishes determines which shrimp to keep, except yamotos, wood and armored shrimps.

A lot of people seem to forget that besides the dwarf shrimps, there are other shrimps that grow much larger (than dwarves) and can be kept with some fishes.

[RHX]

Keep Galaxy Rasbora out! My Galaxies hunt the pregnant shrimps like a topedo. In the end all the eggs were eaten up.

[diki]

Keep Galaxy Rasbora out! My Galaxies hunt the pregnant shrimps like a topedo. In the end all the eggs were eaten up.

Oh really! Since I have about 3-5 left from 2 batch of 10, they seems to be ok to me. Maybe I got enough hiding space. Luckily my shrimps are able to wonder around the tank. See them most of the time. Yesterday even see 2 tiny shrimplets on my algae ball. I think this is a good sign.

[RHX]

You must have feed them well. I feed mine with dry food, guess they prefer live food.

[diki]

Actually I only use dried fish/shrimp food. But I have an extra step, I mixed my fish food. Usually get those pellet type fish food and pound to mix them, since my fishes have very small mouth. Actually pellet food are cheaper for the brand that I buy so use some effort (strength) to keep the cost down.

I also use sinking food for the shrimps so that they keep their claws off my fishes. Since the food is too big for my fishes, usually they ignore them, except my shrimps.

Come to think of it, maybe galaxy prefer live food as I lost quite a few. Stopped getting them already since want to accumulate karma.