Adding Shrimp

**Complexity** · 07-05-2012, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Kunsthure

I should've added that bamboos need to be in mature tanks, at least 6 months old. That way there are enough microorganisms for them to eat. Otherwise they'll use their fans to eat off the substrate which will destroy their fans.

I have put bamboo shrimp in newly set up QT tanks and fed them with newborn fry food. It has to be extremely tiny, but it works.

Kunsthure · 07-05-2012, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Complexity

I have put bamboo shrimp in newly set up QT tanks and fed them with newborn fry food. It has to be extremely tiny, but it works.

Touché, Ms. Fancy-pants. :p Most people don't want that hassle; they want a self-sufficient shrimp.

-Lisa

**Complexity** · 07-05-2012, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Kunsthure

Touché, Ms. Fancy-pants. :p Most people don't want that hassle; they want a self-sufficient shrimp.

LOL! I guess that's true. I mainly wanted to say that it is possible to feed them in a new tank. They won't always die. But they do prefer an older tank for the reasons you stated.

**ShyShrimpDoc** · 07-05-2012, 09:22 PM

I have fire reds (RCS), amano, and bamboo shrimp in my community tank. There are threadfin rainbows, glass catfish, siamese algae eaters, a pleco, some kuli and dojo loaches and a farawella in the tank. The shrimp colony is thriving. Babies aren't even really hiding. RCS breed very fast. The only fish I have had trouble with are mollies, angels, and clown loaches. The clowns were funny, they would let the colony grow for a few months, then have shrimp night and eat them all. I didn't care, they were cull shrimp.

If you know where to get cardinal shrimp PM me please. I have been looking for them for a while. I have a 30 gallon sitting there waiting on them. It's a gorgeous tank.

ElNino9 · 07-06-2012, 09:37 PM

Okay...are there any other shrimp that would work in this set up?

Bananariot · 07-06-2012, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Complexity

LOL! I guess that's true. I mainly wanted to say that it is possible to feed them in a new tank. They won't always die. But they do prefer an older tank for the reasons you stated.

His name is complexity for a reason

Bananariot · 07-06-2012, 11:18 PM

Not really because of ur tetras. Vampire omshrimp could work forgot their scientific Name.....ataya gabonensis or something

07-05-2012, 09:22 PM	#19
ShyShrimpDoc ScrimpMaster (View User Tanks) PTrader: (8/100%) Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 281	I have fire reds (RCS), amano, and bamboo shrimp in my community tank. There are threadfin rainbows, glass catfish, siamese algae eaters, a pleco, some kuli and dojo loaches and a farawella in the tank. The shrimp colony is thriving. Babies aren't even really hiding. RCS breed very fast. The only fish I have had trouble with are mollies, angels, and clown loaches. The clowns were funny, they would let the colony grow for a few months, then have shrimp night and eat them all. I didn't care, they were cull shrimp. If you know where to get cardinal shrimp PM me please. I have been looking for them for a while. I have a 30 gallon sitting there waiting on them. It's a gorgeous tank. Last edited by ShyShrimpDoc; 07-05-2012 at 09:23 PM.. Reason: Spell check

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07-06-2012, 09:37 PM	#20
ElNino9 Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (3/100%) Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Mattawan Posts: 127	Okay...are there any other shrimp that would work in this set up?

07-06-2012, 11:18 PM	#22
Bananariot Planted Tank Guru (View User Tanks) PTrader: (23/100%) Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Stony Brook, NY Posts: 2,495	Not really because of ur tetras. Vampire omshrimp could work forgot their scientific Name.....ataya gabonensis or something