Betta and Cherry shrimp

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I have a male betta that I've had for over two years, in a 3 gallon Eclipse tank with live plants. I wanted to put some inverts in the tank and I was wondering about the RCS. Is it possible to put them in there or will they just be food? I know that if they have babies that it will mostly become food for the betta. What are your thoughts? Any other suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks
Kathy
 
It's simply trial and error. Shrimps are very vulnerable when they molt though. I never had luck mixing my bettas with shrimp before and even snails.
 
Thanks, I kinda of thought that. I asked the guy that had them today and he said he should know this but he wasn't sure. He said that if they get eaten that he would give me money back. If it doesn't work out I wouldn't want my money back because like you said it is a gamble but I would let him know one way or the other.

Are there any inverts that would be okay?
 
The only snails I know for sure that will work are nerite snails but they sometimes expose their antennaes when they feel safe and if the betta nips their antennaes, they'll end up stressed and will move with their head hidden instead. My guppies nip some snails' antennaes but not much damage is done. A betta would have a more powerful bite.
 
I don't think that most shrimp are particulary more vulnerable just when they molt. Bettas in general will tend to harass shrimp. Some bettas do ok, some do not. It really depends on their individual temperament. I think in a 3g, you are more likely to have a betta that will "taste" the shrimp. I don't know that I would really recommend adding any more critters to that size tank. An invert tank is fascinating, why not set up another 5g or 10g for inverts, then you could try a couple adult shrimp in with your betta.
 
If you ask me, bettas are snippy and I wouldn't recommend a shrimp with them. My female betta ate one.
 
Depends on the personality of the betta, though a 3g doesn't give the shrimp much room to hide. But also you have to consider the behavior of the shrimp: there were two amanos in my 10g when I brought Louie home, and they immediately vanished. ("AAAIIIEEE!! Giant blue predator!" :22_yikes:) I thought he might have killed them, but one appeared weeks later when I put some zucchini in the tank to catch snails. Yours might also try to hide.
 
So far so good. I think he is wondering what the heck is in his tank. I do have live plants in that he hides in and the shrimp like to hang out in at times, other times they are moving about the tank.

I am getting a 38 gallon tank in a few months, unfornately it is for my son's two goldfish that he currently has in a 10 gallon tank at his great grandmother's house. When I move the fish I'm planing on putting platys in the 10 gallon for her. I have a 5 gallon that I might be able to put something in it later on right now I have it set up for one baby red devil at the moment. When it gets a little bit bigger, I'll put it back in the 125 gallon so maybe then then I could do a 5 gallon invert tank.
 
I have not attempted this. But I do belive an adult shrimp is too large to be considered a prey item by a betta, though they will nip 'extremities', be they fins or antennae.
 
i had one in a 5gal with shrimp
it was a shrimp tank and i was going to move the shrimp out everything looked ok, in the heavy planted tank, but when i moved all the plants out to catch them a few weeks later there were non left, killed them all, even adults, and the pond snails must have ate them because there were no traces left of over 50 shrimp,...
 
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