Compatible Fish for Red Cherry Shrimp

Where do you live where you caught the bluegill? If you want to keep it a wild-live biome, I could surely help you (especially if you live on the east coast of the US)

Shrimp really do best in a tank by themselves. In a tank by themselves they will quickly breed and you'll be overrun by shrimp (which you can then trade back to your LFS for credit).

My advice? Don't put any fish in there with them (okay maybe otocinclus would be okay with them). Definately get that blue gill outta there.

I think Corydoras will be ok with them since they are usually peaceful bottom dwellers, Of you could try a nice lil school of some sort of tetra like Black neons or lemons.

If you want to breed the cherrys, I'd suggest keeping them alone as IndianaSam said. They're pretty small to start with, and baby shrimp are tiny - most fish would probably see them as snacks. Adults should be safe with gentle community fish like small tetras, cherry barbs, honey gouramis, otos, hatchetfish, etc. I've got 1" Amanos in with my cherry barbs, they completely ignore the shrimp. I'm not sure about keeping cherries with more robust community fish - I tried ghost shrimp in my 65g and they didn't last very long with the angel and swordtail hunting them.

I blinked and almost missed how long 4 cherry shrimp lasted in my tank with two three-spot gouramis and zebra danios (not sure if the zebras went after them or not)

3 shrimp were gone within 5 mins....one went under a rock and lasted 24 hours, till I saw them picking at his dead body the next day.....what a shame, guess I didn't do enough research prior to that purchase!