What fish won't eat baby shrimps but will eat live black worms?

I have a 10 gallon invert only tank. It consists of red cherry shrimps, brig snails, and ramshorn snails. oOo and 7 little bitty bristlenose plecos
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i think adding cories would be a bit much..i don't think they would eat the baby shrimp but with 7 baby plecs and multiple snails, it might make some water quality problems for the shrimp.
 
Ah, true. Forgot about the tank size. Take out the plecs and/or brigs if you want to try the cories.
 
Unfortunately right now moving the plecos or the baby brigs out of the tank isn't really an option. The plecos are no longer than an adult shrimp so they're still pretty small and any of my fish in my tanks would not hesitate to make a meal out of them. Though I don't intend to keep all of them I would rather not take the chance with them. Same deal with the brigs. I did put 3 of the 10 in my Multi tank, but I really don't want to put any more in there. *sigh* I was a little leary of putting the plecos in the tank but I didn't realize when I won them how small they were going to be. Not really a big deal, I will enjoy watching them grow, I just didn't plan on putting them in the invert tank. Since I'm going to be out of town for 4 days for Christmas I have been "experimenting" with the water parameters. I put them in on Friday and checked the parameters daily until finally doing a water change on the following Friday. At that point the nitrates were over 10 but not quite to 20 with no ammo or nitrites. So this lead me to believe that I shouldn't have a problem while I'm gone. This week I'm doing daily water changes on all tanks to sort of "prepare" them for my being gone. That being said about the water parameters, I have 2 Julii cories in my 20 long (I know, I need to get more for them to be happy. That will come after Christmas.) that I could probably put in there for a couple of days and not have water issues. Think a couple of days would be enough time for the cories to cut the worm population down substantially? It sounds like I'm going to have to remove all occupants and swap out my substrate to get rid of them. :angryfire: Not something I look forward to. I guess that may give me the opportunity to rid the tank of the ramshorn snails too. *sigh sigh sigh* I guess I will keep my fingers crossed in hopes of getting a new tank for Christmas. I really had my hopes up on setting up a dwarf puffer tank if I did. Guess that idea goes out the door for a while. LoL

Let this be a lesson about feeding fish live worms! :wall:
 
you could try the cories for a couple of days but i don't know how much of a dent they will make short term, that's alot of worms!! lol, but it probably wouldn't hurt either.
 
Ya know, I think I will move those cories in there. I'm doing daily water changes until Friday so I can't imagine parameters getting out of wack. At least it'll get rid of SOME of the worms until I can manually. I'll just take the cories out Friday before I leave town. They should be get good an' fat. HAHA. If they eat them, that is.
 
Thank you! Thank you!

I really don't expect much. There are enough worms in there to feed an army (of fish). LoL. I'm just afraid that one of these days I'm going to turn the light on and not be able to even see the bottom of my tank because of them.
I've been brainstorming and also came up with the idea of attempting to feed "the crew" in some sort of bowl so that the worms can't get to their food and trying to lure the worms into one corner of the tank with food in that one corner. Some how I'd have to block the critters from getting into that corner to the food. Then I could just keep siphoning that corner until their population is reduced. Again, I think it would only be a matter of time before I end up in the same situation again. I've finally realized how big of a problem I have. :(
 
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