Bottom feeders that won`t bother plants or eat shrimp

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You said it's a 120 gallon? Not sure about garras (I think they have special requirements like fast flowing current or something, don't quote me) but the other two would be perfectly fine. Personally, I love my SAE's in my 125 but they occupy more of the mid level of the tank. Great algae eaters and they look really cool IMO.

Anyways, I would reccommend starting out with a colony of shrimp like Red Cherries, or another Neocardinia species, that can reproduce fast and fill up your tank. Ghost shrimp will get lost in a 120g unless you have a bunch. Another benefit of Red Cherries is that if you get a good size colony going they'll reproduce fast enough in case some are eaten by the fish.

Larger cories would be a great idea plant wise, but they'd probobly eat shrimp. The pygmy cories would get lost unless you had a giant school, I think something larger would be much better. Not neccessarily one of the giant 4" cories like the emeralds, but something like peppered or agasszi corys would work well.
 

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Thanks for the responses guys,
and User_name I have recently found Cherry red shrimp locally and I have read nothing but good things about them, and you say they will reproduce rapidly? thats great because I was kinda worried with the fact that the ghosts wont breed in the home aquarium and that they will just essentially be impossible to locate haha

Would a mixed group of corys work well? I mean will they actually shoal and form a group or are they more likely to split off into species?
 

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well i have only heard of one fish that will not eat shrimp.and that would the ottos.
 

evil wizard

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Plecos won't either.

If cories eat any shrimp, it will be very few and only babies. Cherry shrimp will breed far faster than the cherry shrimp eat them.
ok i have read a few stories of plecos eating shrimp so i would not trust them.
 

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I wouldn't trust the common pleco... the one we had totally ate the cherry shrimp. So long story short, we have Oto's now :)
 
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