cherry shrimp

Hi guys, I am going to be purchasing a 60l aquarium in the next couple of weeks and my plan is to focus the whole aquarium around red cherry shrimp . Obviously it's going to take a little while to fully cycle the tank to get it ready for cherry shrimp, but until then i've been trying to do my...

Not sure if they are an oddball or not... but Ive certainly never seen them before.  Anyway I picked one up today and was wondering if I could keep it with my cherry shrimp (for now while it's small) so it can eat some scuds and seed shrimp.  Or if it would just rather chase my shrimp.  Thanks...

I'm looking to stock my 29 gallon with live-bearers only. I used a site that calculates your filtration and stock that I can't mention here for some reason and saw that I can have 10 Guppies, 10 Endlers, 5 Julii Corys, 5 Otocinclus, and 6 Cherry Shrimp. It says my filtration is 134% and my...

Hi, I'm sure most of my questions have been asked before but please forgive me, I'm new and I'm not navigating the forums so well!   Anyway, I'm looking into setting up a shrimp tank and after a little looking around I'm quite taken with cherry shrimps but I have a few questions which my...

So i have some cherry shrimp and i can see a saddle on one of them very easily so i'm guessing it wont be to long before she has her eggs.  I was just wondering how long they usually stay buried when laying their eggs

I have six red cherry shrimp that i just got a couple of days ago in a 10 gal strictly for the shrimp.  i have a fist sized clump of java moss in there and i was just wondering if that and some algae with some crushed up fish flakes every so often was enough or whether i should be feeding them...

I plan on getting about 10-20 cherry shrimp for my 10 gallon tank because i have found that that is one of the only things that will safely fit in my tank and still look kinda cool.  do they like or prefer any kinds of plants or anything like that and how often are they going to breed.

Hi guys, First off a thankyou to the forum for providing myself and family with great info and advice while we begin this journey into the tropical fish keeping world. We started 2 weeks ago with a trip to our local stockists, we were persuaded (mainly by the dazzling lights and pretty...