Lil' Shrimp Buddies

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I'm planning on getting some shrimp for my betta's tank soon.. And I was wondering....Could I mix ghost shrimp other breeds such as cherry, amano, or blue shrimp ( their exact name escapes me at the moment ) ? Is this ok? Or a big no-no?
 
You can mix shrimp, but most people don't do it. With the types of shrimp you want to add, you will eventually end up with just the cherrys. Ghost and Amano shrimp need special conditions for their young to survive. You would have to replace them when they die. I'm not quiet sure what you mean by blue shrimp. The only blue shrimp I have seen are the ones on aquabid. I'm pretty sure these are mutations of cherry shrimp, similar to albino fish. If kept with cherrys they will most likely breed with them. The blue shrimps genes are recessive so if one mates with a cherry, you will only get red offspring. If two blue mate you will get blue offspring. I'm pretty sure it is the same with the yellow and orange shrimp as well.

I suggest that you go for only cherries. They can be expensive, but they breed like rabbits. So they are well worth the extra money and you can easily sell them.
 
How's about bumble-bee shrimp? They say that their breeding conditions are the same as cherries, but I don't know if they would breed with cherries or not.

Thanks for the help mate.
 
I've got shrimp with my Betta, The Amano shrimp are fine but smaller shrimp (like cherrys) seem to get killed. He doesn't eat them but i find 2 halfs of a shrimp on the bottom of the tank.

To be honest i've never seen him kill one but the tanks only got 1 Betta and some shrimp so i'm guessing it is him.
 
Just thought I'd add that ghost/glass shrimp do NOT need special conditions to raise their young. Just somewhere for the babies to hide. I originally added around 6 of them to my community tank and am currently on around the 12th generation. They seem to drop their young in the holes of a chunk of driftwood in the tank where the fish can't get to them.


Amano shrimp however need salt for their offspring to survive.
 

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