What are fish ok?

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:23 am

Hi,

I'm new and I appologies if you have this posted somewere else.

What fish (in general) are ok to go with Red Cherry Shrimp and the other kinds of algea eating shirmp?

I curently have a small bushynosed pleco, white clouds and black skirt tetras. Are they ok?

Thanks,

TKD

Bradimus · Post by **Bradimus** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:25 am

None of those will eat your adult shrimp. However, the Black Skirts (G. ternetzi, I assume) will hunt baby shrimp. They will probably 'play' with the adult shrimp.

drhooha · Post by **drhooha** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:28 am

i'd would be careful with the black skirts

in my experience, even small black skirts will eat your shrimp. I placed a bunch of glass shrimp in a tank with them, the smaller ones (about the size of a cherry red) were eventually eaten by them. The smaller tetras would swim around with a half-swallowed shrimp sticking out of their mouths for a few hours. If they spit them out it was for a split second and then would put them back in so their buddies couldn't snatch them up from them

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:50 am

So mutch for being piecefully....

Hmmm to be honest I was more concernerd about the bushynosed.
I think I will try some ghost shirmp (glass shrimp) as an experiment.

I was looking forward to getting some too.... if I could find some here in Canada.

Maybe I could get a wood shrirmp.....

Thanks for your help,

TKD

Bradimus · Post by **Bradimus** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:02 am

The bushy-nosed pleco wouldn't eat the shimp if you stuffed them into his mouth.

Jackie · Post by **Jackie** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:08 pm

Bradimus wrote:The bushy-nosed pleco wouldn't eat the shimp if you stuffed them into his mouth.

ROTFL - I just imagined it

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:40 am

I should have known that about the bushy...

I had on in my baby guppy tank and it never touched any of them.

Thanks again,

TKD