Shrimp in a community planted tank?

With gouramis and loaches, i'll say NO

not possible they will be eaten

Your CRS will become delicious and expensive snacks for your fish.

What type of Gourami? And with loaches alone I would say no. Dwarf Gourami are a 50/50. The best way to get shrimp in a community tank is of course to plant extremely heavy, with tons of very small leaved plants, or mosses that the fish cannot make their way through. And have the shrimp in the tank for a while first so they can establish themselves, and start to breed.

Only fish I've had that had a problem getting through ANY plants were large angelfish. My large gouramis are quite comfortable navigating and pushing their way through any foliage to hunt out and destroy a shrimp!

I'd stick with the amanos because you *know* they won't get eaten. Even with dense planting and lots of moss, gouramis of all sizes will destroy the shrimp. I kept sparkling gouramis in my shrimp tank and I learned the hard way that they love love love shrimp. I have an opaline in my 37g and wouldn't dare keep shrimp with her.

-Lisa

If you keep CRS in a community tank, you might not see them much, even if they do survive. I stuck a dozen in my community tank, and they appear to be quite fearful of being eaten, so they only come out of the moss at night. The RCS are out all the time though.

expensive fish food.

Ditch the gourami and loaches and you should be ok with boras.

EKLiu said:

If you keep CRS in a community tank, you might not see them much, even if they do survive. I stuck a dozen in my community tank, and they appear to be quite fearful of being eaten, so they only come out of the moss at night. The RCS are out all the time though.

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My CBS never come out except at night but my RCS are all over the tank and swimming around all day...

get bamboo shrimp.