Aquariums: What will eat *just* the shrimplets in this community tank?
Not pictured: Five harlequin rasboras, two more panda corys, one extremely lazy and seemingly uninterested veiled betta, and hundreds more shrimplets.
Posted by Zig-Zag
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MheTandalorian on
The betta and the Corys are your likely answer. Shrimplets are incredibly tiny, many fish may even consume them accidentally due to size. If you add something that will knowingly eat the shrimplets, you run into the risk of them possibly eating the larger shrimp.
maxtes2003 on
Guppy’s lmao
that_white_splat on
Just collect the shrimps for trades with people in local facebook groups! They have a low bioload anyways.
Necroi on
The general rule with fish is if it can fit in their mouth they will eat it. I’m not super versed on Cory’s but I’ve seen them get to sizes where they can eat adult shrimp. The problem too would be that they’re both generally on the ground so it’s prime territories crossing which would lead to be pretty strong chance of them eating shrimp. I’ve had some species of fish that would eat one another but because some are mid tank to bottom dwellers I never had incidents between them. Ultimately it seems like shrimp are at risk if they’re put with those Cory’s
MoochoMaas on
My emerald dwarf rasboras surprised me. Had about 30 – 40 adult cherry shrimp in my 20 long. Added 12 rasboras and a little over a year I had five shrimp.
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The betta and the Corys are your likely answer. Shrimplets are incredibly tiny, many fish may even consume them accidentally due to size. If you add something that will knowingly eat the shrimplets, you run into the risk of them possibly eating the larger shrimp.
Guppy’s lmao
Just collect the shrimps for trades with people in local facebook groups! They have a low bioload anyways.
The general rule with fish is if it can fit in their mouth they will eat it. I’m not super versed on Cory’s but I’ve seen them get to sizes where they can eat adult shrimp. The problem too would be that they’re both generally on the ground so it’s prime territories crossing which would lead to be pretty strong chance of them eating shrimp. I’ve had some species of fish that would eat one another but because some are mid tank to bottom dwellers I never had incidents between them. Ultimately it seems like shrimp are at risk if they’re put with those Cory’s
My emerald dwarf rasboras surprised me. Had about 30 – 40 adult cherry shrimp in my 20 long. Added 12 rasboras and a little over a year I had five shrimp.