What shrimp do you have/have had?

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Ptrick125

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I am planning on making my 5.5 gallon a shrimp tank. It will have to look good since it is going in my dad's "office". What kind of shrimp do you keep? Any tips that you have on shrimp keeping? If you have a picture of your tank, feel free to share.

My experience so far is with ghost shrimp and SW shrimp...


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metricliman

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I have red cherry shrimp. Cheap and pretty.
 

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Cocktail, fried, scampi, grilled, and peel & eat......
 

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RCS, CRS. Amamo, Bamboo, ghost. I'd go with cherries cheap and easy. I'd also suggest looking into some nano fish to throw in as well, freshwater shrimp are pretty boring.
 

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RCS, CRS. Amamo, Bamboo, ghost. I'd go with cherries cheap and easy. I'd also suggest looking into some nano fish to throw in as well, freshwater shrimp are pretty boring.
I think I'll go with endler's...


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Well these are the names that I bought them as. Of course, red cherry shrimp. I bought some sakura, bee, tiawan, and green shrimp.

I've kept them with endlers, a betta (I had to wait out and see his personality he's never even flared up at any shrimp), least killis...

I suggest planted tank. When I first moved some sakura's in with my betta there weren't a whole ton of plants. But I have this plant that will grow in mud I swear and it's taken over both my 5g shrimp/fish tanks.

Here's the plant in my 5g when it gets so full - I have to remove a bunch so that the fish can actually get to the top again
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I just went and snapped some pics of the tanks, they are not the greatest pictures lol

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Sucks tho, I ordered some shrimp and they've been stuck in the mail all week. Idk if and when I get them they'll be alive :(

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Oh, and in the past when we used to have a LFS that was great and always had ghost shrimp (mostly for feeders) I would buy them but they never lasted that long. I've heard they are hard to get to breed also.
 

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I no longer own...

Green Babaulti
Tiger

I currently own...

Yellow
Red Cherry
Fire Red
Red Rili
Blue Rili
Crystal Red

hoping to get some blue pearls and tigers again once i get another tank to prevent crossbreeding
 
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