How many shrimps are enough?

[hadjici2]

In a 120 litre planted aquarium would there be enough nitrates by keeping just Amano Shrimps?

How many Amano Shrimps in sush an aquarium would not starve to death but also provide a good balance in nitrate levels?

Always assuming that there are no plants in the aquarium that Amano Shrimps especialy like!

 

[jimbooo]

sorry had to ask - Why no fish?

dont know the answer to your question exactly but i'd guess you could keep 40/50 or so but nitrate would never really get high enough. they dont produce much waste at all.

 

[hadjici2]

No fish because I am a student in another country and there is no-one to take care of the tank....so I keep it into an automated minimum requirement aquarium.....so I wondered if with some fish I could create a "symbiotic" environment where the shrimp would keep the plants alive with their nitrates and vice versa.........

 

[jimbooo]

you could throw in a few otto's. if the tank is planted they'll live off the algae (theres always some no matter how good the tank is). 4 would be fine and happily survive without feeding so long as you have enough plants.

 

[smithrc]

when we bouth our Amanos to deal with some of the algea in our planted tank (with fish) we were advised to go for at least 6 per 100l to see a difference...

We got 13 for our 180l and they made a bit of a difference but in all honesty - I'd at least double that.

say 30-40 in your 120l

 

[hadjici2]

Do GHOST shrimps eat hair algae?

Does anyone know how to breed them?