Are there shrimp safe tankmates?
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Small fish will be fine with adults. With little shrimplettes, I would be more cautious. Most Nano Fish, Ember Tetras, Neons, Cardinals should be fine since their fairly small. If your worried about the fry, get some moss for the tank for the fry to hide in.
Then you should be fine. Other ideas that you could do are Pencilfish. My favorite one are the Golden and the Dwarf Pencilfish. If your worried abotu shrimplettes being eaten, I would stick with Dwarf Pencils since they are much much smaller and have very small mouth.
I'm doing narrow wedge rasboras with no problem with my red cherry shrimp. They are so small (w/tiny mouths) and just don't care about the shrimp at all. Also have some albino corys and glass cats in there that don't seem bother them at all either. The glass cats are the newest addition, so I guess I cant say for certain. But I have read of other people keeping them with shrimp, thus my attempt.
I agree.
We have a heavily planted 20G RCS tank. We tried several different tank mates including guppy fries, Albino Corys, Neon tetras. # of RCS has been increasing slowly with them (still increasing) and could see tiny shrimps here and there. Now, we keep RCS without fish mate except really tiny two Albino Corys (less than 0.25in). Now, population of RCS is increasing really fast and hard to guess how many we have.