Ghost shrimp-how much of an impact?

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wbaker01

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My wife and I are new to the hobby but we are debating over whether Ghost shrimp factor into the 1" per gallon tank rule. I've heard that they do and that they don't. Would anyone care to chime in? We've got a 10 gallon tank that will house about 4 tetras and 1-2 cory's in the next month or so.

Also looking for an opinion on adding a snail or two to the tank, would it be beneficial?
 
snails will clean up the algae from the walls and help to eat excess food, ghost shrimp will do the latter and not hey dont really count on your bioload. In the newbie forum there is a sticky talking about the inch/gallon rule and how it is pretty silly basically, I recomend that you dont follow it. You could put quite a few ghost shrimp in your tank and get a couple of snails and the tetras and cory cats would all do well together.
 
I would fully agree with Wildcats. Scrap the inch per gallon rule, don't worry about the bio-load of ghost shrimp, and the stocking you mentioned would be good as long as you don't pick one of the larger cory species. Snails may or may not count towards bio-load depending on what type of snail you have in mind. the bigger apple snails (includes mysteries) do add to the bio-load enough to matter in a 10g tank. Smaller varieties have very little impact if numbers are limited.
Dave
 
Sorry, but I disagree. If it is alive and respiring in your tank it is bioload. It use O2, respires CO2, eats food and poops waste. Don't kid yourself. You may find out if you have and extended power outage and no generator.
 
they do all of that yes, but the waste they generate is hardly noticable at all... thats like putting a person in a lake and have them pee or something and see if the lake gets an ammonia spike
 
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