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need some suggestions on making my new 2.5g tank shrimp safe, it has an intank whisper filter and the inhabitants are going to be red cherries, i'm afraid that the filter would harm the little shrimp babies..any suggestion?

Mustafa wrote:A shrimp tank holds a cycle just fine. The bacteria just adjust to the shrimp load in your tank. Plus, it's always helpful to have a few fast growing stem plants in the tank with shrimp, which can also absorb some of the waste products.

thanks Mustafa

Hello, I was jsut curious on how a shrimp only tank can hold a cycle, does it have to be a certain amount of shirmp to hold it? or is haveing just a few ok? I myself don't have a shirmp tank but I was just curious about the shrimp only setup

thank you