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This is a discussion on what shrimp? within the Crustaceans/Inverts/Mollusks forums, part of the Species category; i want to put some shrimp in my 55 gallon with my gbr and angels what would be ok in ...

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    i want to put some shrimp in my 55 gallon with my gbr and angels what would be ok in the tank, the fish are all pretty mellow..thanks
    80 gallon with gbr's tetras plecos, angels and lots of plants.
    10 gallon with black skirt tetras and coreys

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    I've never had a ram before, but I successfully had amanos in with my bigger angel fish. Is this a planted tank, (it will give the shrimp hiding places, they can starve to death in fear of being eaten otherwise I've found).

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    I've got cherry shrimp multiplying in a 36 bowfront with 2 breeding Bolivian rams and some geriatric Harlequin rasboras and espei. I thought that the rams would eat the cherry shrimp or their babies, but everything is copacetic. Cherry shrimp are easy shrimp to start with and they stand out very well in a well-planted tank.

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    yes its a planted tank..well partley but more on the way.. now to find shrimp..thanks guys
    80 gallon with gbr's tetras plecos, angels and lots of plants.
    10 gallon with black skirt tetras and coreys

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    As Maureen said, Cherries are very hardy, and they breed prolifically (usually faster than they get eaten anyways).

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    My rams ate my shrimp, they left the amanos alone, I have 11 eb rams and 1 sunrise ram also a blue apisto!

    I threw in some tester shrimp they were adult and about 1 inch gone in a week!
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    Mountain fan/bamboo/flower shrimp (call it what you want ) would most likely be big enough to not be eaten.

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    Cherries won't last 5 minutes with adult angels, I don't think.
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    Default what shrimp?

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    I forgot that I had some amanos in a 55 gallon and put in some small angels. The next morning all of the amanos had jumped out. Shrimp won't mix with angels.

 

 

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