Would Amano Shrimp Or Bamboo Shrimp Be Safe With A Honey Gourami (Tric

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Akeath

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I have a 75 gallon aquarium with 1 male Honey Gourami, 10 Cardinal Tetras, 10 Harlequin Rasboras, 8 Gold Tetras, 7 Black Neon Tetras, and around 15 Panda Corydoras.  I would absolutely love to have some shrimp in here.  I used to have an aquarium full of Cherry Shrimp, and really miss having shrimp.  However, in the place I live now I just don't have room for another tank, so I am wondering if I could fit some type of shrimp in there without the risk of being eaten.  Honestly, I'd probably prefer the Amano Shrimp, which I think are cuter and more reminiscent of Cherry Shrimp, but I'd settle for the Bamboo Shrimp if the Amanos wouldn't work.  Would either the Amano or the Bamboo Shrimp be safe with my current stocking?
 
While both Bamboo shrimp and Amano shrimp are larger shrimp they can still be bullied and nipped at. Bamboo shrimp can come with their own set of problems too because of their usual feeding mode, which is snatching water out of the water colomn with nets. Any damage done to these feeding nets and the shrimp will starve, also you need to ensure that the shrimp get a chance to use these nets to feed. I have found first fry powder foods good in this regard since it is fine and tends to swirl all over the place for a longer period of time giving the shrimp a chance to feed.
Amano shrimp are not so specialised in their feeding but they will require a certain amount of algae, also because Amano shrimp are all pretty much wild caught (very hard to breed in captivity let alone commercially), there is some ethical debate if it is right to keep trapping them from the wild and depleting wild stocks .
I really do doubt any shrimp is really immune to a gouramis attention. At one point I had a shoal of sparkling Gouramis (a tiny species) and I had hoped that adult cherry shrimp would be safe from them. I was soon corrected by the fish themselves when I witnessed the sparkling gouramis tearing large adult cherry shrimp to shreds in order to eat them.
Macrobrachium are a large species of shrimp, but I can pretty much assure you that instead of the shrimp being prey the smaller fish could become easy targets for the macrobrachium.
Depending on what country your in glass shrimp might be an option, you will find them harder to find but I am sure the fish will have no such difficultly.
 

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