SHRIMP SAFE LIST (was: Is there a list of shrimp predators somewhere?)

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by esarkipato

Well my photography skills are light years behind "TheTeh"'s, but here's proof that "dojo loaches" can peacefully coexist with cherries:



Yep, they share food!

Thats a kuhli loach not a dojo loach. They are my absolute favorite fish. I have 10+

[sandiegoryu]

In Japan, dojo loaches aren't pet fish. They're food :-D. And those Kuhli loaches don't look edible to me :-D.

[spypet]

For the past 2 weeks I put six M&F 2cm RCS in my densely planted
nano size 60 fish member community tank and all six have survived.
Here are the list of fish I keep in this 30g tank you can use
as reference when choosing your shrimp and fish community;

dwarf cory - Corydoras hastatus
bumblebee goby - Brachygobius aggregatus
danio - Chela dadyburjori
botia - Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki
porkchop rasbora - Trigonostigma hengeli
Endler's livebearer guppy - Poecilia Reticulata * MALES ONLY *
dwarf sucker-mouth catfish - Otocinclus affinis

I first removed this fish due to it's persistent predatory tendency;
dwarf sparkling gourami - Trichopsis pumilus

I should note that shrimp were regularly seen out in the open, but
preferred to spend the majority of their time deep inside my plant cover.
since all these fish gladly eat my live brine shrimp, it's certain they will
eat any shrimp fry they can find, with the exception being the Otto's.

New Experiment: I put a single cory and goby in my RCS breeding tank
with many shrimp fry of various tiny sizes. This tank has many micro
organisms I hope these fish will clean without eating the fry all up

Update: After 2 weeks, the cory and goby ignored even the smallest of
my shrimp fry, so I'm satisfied that they are as shrimp safe as my Ottos.
they cleaned up some moving organisms, and ate live Brine shrimp I put
in the tank, yet they still did not disturb even newborn 2mm shrimp fry.

[phanizzle]

otos, rummy nose tetras, and cories ignore my juvie cherries.

[Cattius]

Anyone know anything about cherry shrimp and mollies compatibility?

[Urkevitz]

Originally Posted by Cattius

Anyone know anything about cherry shrimp and mollies compatibility?

I've heard they aren't compatible, I haven't tried them myself.

[dekstr]

Originally Posted by phanizzle

otos, rummy nose tetras, and cories ignore my juvie cherries.

I keep cories + rummynoses with cherry shrimps too.
Cories leave the shrimps online. The only time they might do any harm is if the shrimp is in the way. The cory will just swim through the shrimp. No damage there.

I noticed today, if there is food, and the cherries and tetras both want it, tetras will win 100% of the time. If the cherries get in the way, the rummynose WILL nip at them. I don't know if this does significant damage, but for the most part the cherries will jump away and hide, resorting to eating detritus again.

Again, I guess most carnivorous / omivorous fish will eat the shrimp if given the chance. Even if it's not big enough to fit into the mouth, they will nip at them.

[phanizzle]

Originally Posted by dekstr

I keep cories + rummynoses with cherry shrimps too.
Cories leave the shrimps online. The only time they might do any harm is if the shrimp is in the way. The cory will just swim through the shrimp. No damage there.

I noticed today, if there is food, and the cherries and tetras both want it, tetras will win 100% of the time. If the cherries get in the way, the rummynose WILL nip at them. I don't know if this does significant damage, but for the most part the cherries will jump away and hide, resorting to eating detritus again.

Again, I guess most carnivorous / omivorous fish will eat the shrimp if given the chance. Even if it's not big enough to fit into the mouth, they will nip at them.

i also have seen this happen when my shrimp was swimming to the surface and had a piece of the flake the rummy nose nipped it or pushed the shrimp away or something but didnt do any damage so thats a good thing but most of the time they ignore them.

[edacsac]

I see a lot of posts saying tetras and cherry shrimp do fine (rummy nose, neon), but what about cardinal tetra? I have one in my 10 gallon tank with 5 cherry shrimp, and I counted 3 of the (largest adult) shrimp yesterday with no corpses after a couple of weeks. My tank is well planted with java moss, so I'm hoping the other two where hiding. I would like to move about 25 more shrimp (65% juvies) to that tank and shut down the shrimp tank, but they've been slow to multiply and I don't want to lose to many.

[dekstr]

Originally Posted by edacsac

I see a lot of posts saying tetras and cherry shrimp do fine (rummy nose, neon), but what about cardinal tetra? I have one in my 10 gallon tank with 5 cherry shrimp, and I counted 3 of the (largest adult) shrimp yesterday with no corpses after a couple of weeks. My tank is well planted with java moss, so I'm hoping the other two where hiding. I would like to move about 25 more shrimp (65% juvies) to that tank and shut down the shrimp tank, but they've been slow to multiply and I don't want to lose to many.

Well since cardinal tetras are almost 2x (around 3cm versus 5cm+) as small as rummynoses, they shouldn't be a problem. Most species of shrimps are quite hardy. For cherry shrimps, I guess as long as you have a nice bed of java moss, they will survive just fine. There's lots of micro-food within the java moss that they can feed on and survive.

[crazie.eddie]

I put platy fry (about 12) in my 29 gallon RCS tank. The fry were way smaller than most juveniles, so I figured the fry would leave the shrimps. I made sure the fish/shrimps were well fed, with FBW, flakes, zuchini, algae discs, etc. I noticed the fry would eat away at dead shrimp. As the fish got bigger, I noticed no shrimplets or even new borns. When the platy got closer to adult size, I noticed the RCS did not freely swim around in the tank. I think they were fearful of the platy predators. When I removed the platies, my RCS started to multiply again.

I now put cardinal tetras in the tank. I did see a cardinal chase a shrimp, but it (cardinal) stopped after the quick burst.

[kzr750r1]

I'd suspect my cardinals and white cloud minnows are munching on any baby Cherry shrimp available in the 55g. I rarely see the cards (sneaky boogers) and the minnows are always scouting the tank.

Interesting that my 10g with an eight year old Platydoras Costatus (Striped rafael) is a cherry farm in the making.

The cat has been in this kitchen tank for four years. We had several other fish in and out of this tank. But the cat has always been here since our move.

This shrimp farm started with six shrimp at the beginning of the summer for the 55... First canister cleaning all the refugees went into the 10g. Now there are countless off spring of varying sizes. At some point if the cat is getting any fine. I feed him/her and the shrimp well. The tank gets WC weekly with RO.

Packed with moss and other low light plants. It's been a neat colony to start up.

[waterfaller1]

I keep a dwarf puffer with my shrimp.

[fishscale]

Cardinals will eat shrimplets, but not adults. Dwarf puffers are a gamble. They will either ignore the shrimp or tear them apart and perhaps not even eat them (they can be mean little critters). I keep adult diamond tetras in a tank with a cherry population (not my shrimp tank, but they are still breeding). The population grows very slowly because even though it is heavily planted, when I do water changes or any kind of maintenance, I flush the shrimp out of hiding, and the tetras have a feast on shrimplets. Rainbowfish will definitely hunt shrimplets, perhaps even adults. I had a molly that I donated back to the LFS because it was not eating any algae and it was highly aggressive. Probably the single most shrimp unfriendly fish I have ever had.

[snakeskin]

I have kept guppies, endlers, cories, pearl groumis, discus, and ottos with the shrimp with no problems. Bolivian rams on the other hand nipped at them and seemed to actively hunt them. Stay away from Bolivian rams!