Amano Shrimp and a Betta?

DGalt

DGalt

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I was thinking of getting a handful of amano shrimp (ya for having a cleanup crew), but I've heard different things about how bettas react to shrimp.

I know a lot depends on the betta and his temperment. I've had my betta for about 6 months now and he is currently living with 6 neons, 2 ADF, and a snail. I have yet to see any aggression towards any of the other tanks mates. Even during feeding time, when the neons tend to steal his food, he just waits patiently for more - doesn't chase them, doesn't do anything.

Does anyone have any experience with this?
 
I would give it a try if he seems docile. Amanos get a little bigger than alot of hte common kept dwarf shrimp and it looks like your tank is well planted. I would add the shrimp with the lights out into a densely planted area though. As you said, it really depends on the temperament of your betta. Mine attacks any and every invert it has every encountered.
 
lol, sorry for all your loses then msj.

yea, like I said, he doesn't seem to care that any of the other animals even exist. I saw the snail chewing on his tail one day (he was laying near the bottom of the tank and the snail had bumped into him and started munching on his tail) and I had to actually poke him to get him away from the snail so he didn't have his tail chewed off (he actually had a small hall where the snail had been chewing though...stupid fish).

it'll be unfortunate if he does kill them all considering what I'm probably going to end up paying for shipping, but I guess it's worth a try. I'm replanting the tank next week so it'll be an even denser amount of plants, so maybe that'll help
 
Sounds like it should be fine. I had a betta with a ghost shrimp until it (the shrimp) died of old age. No problems and there was only one ludwigia in the 1.5g tank.
 
I've had two different betta (one VT one CT) work with bamboo shrimp (one's about 2", the other closer to 3"). They share a large, moderately planted tank, and I've seen the betta scope them out and even sit in plants next to the shrimp but no attacks. Even the antenna are intact :P.
 
wow, I haven't had such luck-the couple times I tried to put ghost shrimp with the male or female betta's-they would be eaten almost as soon as they got in the tank:silly:
 
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