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I have two tanks I would like to add some shrimp to (to help the cleaning crew and entertain us all with their cute antics):
1) Livebearer tank: planted 55g with mollies, platies, rainbowfish, two burmese botias, and some MTS snails.
2) Mixed tank - 40g with a few of the above fish as well as rainbow shark (single guy), and a breeding pair of Central American cichlids (peaceful except when guarding fry). Right now it's very lightly planted, but there are upcoming plans to carpet the bottom and add some taller plants for looks as well (have to keep "some" unplanted area for mom cichlid to rearrange at spawning time though).
I would like to know IF shrimp would do ok in either/both tanks - and if so, is there anything in particular that I would need to do to help them do well? Also, which (if any) species would you recommend for each tank?
Thanks in advance!
1) Livebearer tank: planted 55g with mollies, platies, rainbowfish, two burmese botias, and some MTS snails.
2) Mixed tank - 40g with a few of the above fish as well as rainbow shark (single guy), and a breeding pair of Central American cichlids (peaceful except when guarding fry). Right now it's very lightly planted, but there are upcoming plans to carpet the bottom and add some taller plants for looks as well (have to keep "some" unplanted area for mom cichlid to rearrange at spawning time though).
I would like to know IF shrimp would do ok in either/both tanks - and if so, is there anything in particular that I would need to do to help them do well? Also, which (if any) species would you recommend for each tank?
Thanks in advance!