Multiple shrimp species in one tank?

James0816

James0816

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I have one empty 10g tank left so I thought to myself .... why not.

I was thinking for the this one to be moss and shrimpies.

Is it acceptable to house one species of neocaridina and one species of caridina? Heck...why not throw ghosties in the mix as well.

On the same subject.....how are inverts and uncycled tanks. not sure if they are same as fish standards. I can speed cycle a tank with no problem...just curious.

Thx as always
 
The shrimps need a well aged tank and are very sensitive to slight variations so I'd age your tank a while. I have some glass shrimp in a heavily planted 10g with some red cherry shrimps and they are both producing just fine! Its really cool to see the little glass shrimps, they're so cool looking! The moss is a great idea too!
 
Bubbles2112 said:
The shrimps need a well aged tank and are very sensitive to slight variations so I'd age your tank a while. I have some glass shrimp in a heavily planted 10g with some red cherry shrimps and they are both producing just fine! Its really cool to see the little glass shrimps, they're so cool looking! The moss is a great idea too!
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Wrong.

Shrimp do NOT need an aged tank. Would it benefit? Yes, but an aged tank benefits all, if not most creatures.
As I have stated before in multiple posts (in other threads of course), I have set up many shrimp tanks with instantly adding shrimp into it an hour or two after the initial set-up. I have yet to experience any fatalities due to these "new tanks".
However, I will note that I do dump in old filter media into these new tanks to seed the tank. I also keep these tanks planted. The beneficial bacteria that comes from both plants and old media is enough to sustain your shrimp colony. I start with about 25+ shrimp per new tank.

Moss will carry a lot of bacteria and food for shrimp to eat. Use it when you can!
Furthermore, mixing one caridina and one neocaridina sp. is fine to do. Throwing in ghosties to the mix works as well. 3 shrimp in one tank, yay.
 
jpappy789 said:
I believe it would be best to not mix shrimp species of the same genus (ie neocaridina) as some will cross breed.
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Doh! Forgot to say that your mix would work though, so yeah I agree with Yadokari...:wall:
 
I thing "wrong" is an ENTIRELY bad way to represent what you were saying. You add cycled media, and plants. Adding shrimp to a new tank without these things could be fatal. By adding the cycled media you ensure stability of parameters, by adding plants you add biofilm for them to feed on. Please be cautious of misrepresenting their needs. An established tank is always best, when starting with a small colony you can circumvent this by adding the aforementioned things.

That being said, neocaridina and caridina have VERY different requirements. Whether is would work or not really depends on your source water parameters. What is your pH? what is your desired temperature range?
 
To my knowledge, a newly set-up planted tank with seeded media is not exactly an "aged" tank. So I do think I chose my words carefully. But of course, like all things, there are many interpretations. To each his own.

Yellows and crystals can be kept together. Although you should favor crystal parameters more so than yellows. Caridina sp. tend to be a bit more picky about their parameters.
I have snowballs (neocari) and crystal red/black (cari) in a 10G together.
 
msjinkzd said:
That being said, neocaridina and caridina have VERY different requirements. Whether is would work or not really depends on your source water parameters. What is your pH? what is your desired temperature range?
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I try to keep all my tanks between 7.0-7.4 PH and 72-76 temp. Nitrates have not been higher than 40. Lots-o-plants of different varieties. For this particular setup, I am looking at fissidens, peacock moss and suesswasertang. For shrimps, I am thinking of yellows and greens. Then i could throw some ghosties in the mix since for some reason they are my fav.
 
Yellows and greens do fine in that range. Do you meanthe dark green indian caridina? Be cautious of teh ghosties preying on the smaller shrimp, I have not kept ghost shrimp but have read reports of them eating some of the smaller neocaridina.
 
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