my LPS gets only two kinds of shrimps in: ghost shrimp and cherry shrimp.
i really want them as a tiny cleaning crew. they don't need to eat algea. i just think shrimps are neat to look at. i'd love it if they could simply wander about and eat rotty plant bits and fight over fallen food (i would probably ensure that food actually falls to them, no matter what occupants wind up in the tank, you know, wouldn't depend on my overfeeding for their survival). to that end, what would be the difference between the two, and would either one be better suited for life with me than the other? I am starting to have the sneaking suspicion that both would require about the same level of care, and act about the same, and eat about the same things, and that it's just a matter of cost and aesthetics.
at the moment, it's an empty 10gal in the middle of a very buggy fishless cycle. all sorts of tiny creepy crawlies in there, including some sort of snail that seems to eat the creepy crawlies and NOT the plants (no one has answered my other thread yet.
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possible occupants include:
-1 dwarf puffer
-5 ghost shrimp
OR
-1 betta
-5 (?) shrimp
OR
-1 betta
-3-4 adfs
-3 (?) shrimp
in the case of the puffer, the shrimp would definately be ghosts, since puffers are mean little guys and i couldn't be sure the shrimps would live unmolested.
i'm going to be adding a clump of java moss and some hornwart to the tank, after that, it's basically done - unless i decide to opt for sand and replace the substrate. in which case, i'd have a whole new set of possible occupants and the shrimps would be put on the backburner.
i really want them as a tiny cleaning crew. they don't need to eat algea. i just think shrimps are neat to look at. i'd love it if they could simply wander about and eat rotty plant bits and fight over fallen food (i would probably ensure that food actually falls to them, no matter what occupants wind up in the tank, you know, wouldn't depend on my overfeeding for their survival). to that end, what would be the difference between the two, and would either one be better suited for life with me than the other? I am starting to have the sneaking suspicion that both would require about the same level of care, and act about the same, and eat about the same things, and that it's just a matter of cost and aesthetics.
at the moment, it's an empty 10gal in the middle of a very buggy fishless cycle. all sorts of tiny creepy crawlies in there, including some sort of snail that seems to eat the creepy crawlies and NOT the plants (no one has answered my other thread yet.
)possible occupants include:
-1 dwarf puffer
-5 ghost shrimp
OR
-1 betta
-5 (?) shrimp
OR
-1 betta
-3-4 adfs
-3 (?) shrimp
in the case of the puffer, the shrimp would definately be ghosts, since puffers are mean little guys and i couldn't be sure the shrimps would live unmolested.
i'm going to be adding a clump of java moss and some hornwart to the tank, after that, it's basically done - unless i decide to opt for sand and replace the substrate. in which case, i'd have a whole new set of possible occupants and the shrimps would be put on the backburner.
