Clown Loaches and Chrystal shrimp?

[TheTriggerfish]

Thanks again, I guess I'll have to make a tank down the road just for them, so that they can grow comfortably. Also, some clown loach tanks that I've seen that are amazing, house plenty different sized one, including about a dozen small ones and one large one.

 

[TheTriggerfish]

I have housed 4 small 1 inch clown loaches in a heavily planted red cherry shrimp tank to control an outbreak of pond snails. The shrimp population did not seem phased. The colony of 100+ has kept going strong for 2 years. I have sold twenty of mixed sizes every week from a twenty high for over a year. The loaches will be going into a 75 with 5 others in the future.

Recently housed some killie in the tank and thought they took a quick toll. Relocated them from the tank and found the shrimp population back to 100+ within a month.

Other fish that I seem to keep successfully with cherry shrimp are zebra (striata) loaches, queen (dario) loaches, yoyo loachs, chain loach and many varieties of cories.

I keep testing the waters. Cherry shrimp are in most of my planted tanks. The only tanks that I know cannot safely house them have angles.

Thanks Izzy2, they seem like peaceful fish. Even though I won't buy them for him after all, at least I know that they can mix. ><>