Help Setting Up A Shrimp Tank

[Thomas 2507]

Okay, so I need some help setting up a shrimp tank.

I've got a 28l. I'm gonna have a carpet of hair grass, glosso, HC and various mosses. There are many rocks sticking out of the carpet at different angles. There is also a plant pot for cover. There will be a background of Elodea/Egeria densa because I've heard that they like this.

How does that sound so far?

I have a few questions:

There will be MTS in the tank too - this is okay right?

The tank will also serve as a fry tank for my livebearers. Will this me okay too for both the shrimp and fry?

Do shrimp eat their own fry when they breed?

What do I feed shrimp? I know I can feed them vegetables but apart from that - what else?

Cheers

 

[Piltdownpaul]

I can answer a couple of questions-i use shrimps in my liverbearer tank and i have no problems- I have cherry and amano shrimps with endlers and they ignore each other. They will eat lots of algae but will eat flake pellets -anything really-mine barge fish out of the way to get to the pellets sitting on the gravel! They will nibble on dead fish in a tank too.

 

[Thomas 2507]

Cool, that's a good help.

Could anyone clear up any of the other questions for me?

 

[Colin_T]

the tank set up sounds fine and should provide a nice home for the shrimp.

don't know what MTS is

shrimp don't normally eat their own young unless they are really hungry. You can feed them on any sort of fish food. Crumbled flake food or small fish pellets. Virtually anything fish eat the shrimp will also eat. They are general scavengers and aren't fussy.

 

[Thomas 2507]

MTS = Trumpet Snails

Okay, that's good.

So will livebearer fry and shrimp be okay together too?

Also, could I put shrimp in my 80l with neons and rams?

 

[Thomas 2507]

Bump

 

[Piltdownpaul]

As i said earlier they will be fine with livebearers and neons. (i take it you mean neon tetras)-dont know about the rams though

 

[Colin_T]

the shrimp will be fine with blue rams. Bolivian rams might try to pick at the shrimp but are unlikely to do any real damage to them.

 

[aaronnorth]

you will need a lot of light for HC and Glosso, about 36watts would be needed. Stick to mosses, egeria, grasses if you want a low maintenenace set-up, Glosso also needs co2.

 

[Thomas 2507]

Okay, thanks for that - didn't know. It's a big help.

 

[Honeythorn]

You haven't said what sort of shrimp you are getting, but I myself have 1 ghost and 4 Amano shrimp. Amano's do a great job of eating algae. I had some blackish looking fuzzy stuff on my filter intake, it's almost gone now since I added them. The ghost shrimp eats pretty much anything you chuck in there. He is a comical little chap, and actively swims after falling flake food to grab it. He also steals algae wafers and pellets, including the little Tetra sinking wafers I put in for my Corys.

 

[Thomas 2507]

Most likely Cherry Shrimp. =)