Rainbowfish and amano shrimp?

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Yesterday I bought some amano shrimp and zebra snails from my LFS and added them to my 230l tank stocked with: 6 boesemani rainbowfish, guppies, platys and lemon tetras. This morning I checked in on the tank but noticed that I could not see any of the shrimp. All of the snails were there. I did see one shrimp sitting on the filter outtake tube but that was it. This evening the same shrimp is in the same spot and I am wondering if it is because it is stressed from the rainbowfish predating upon them. The tank is heavily planted with many hiding spots for them so I wouldn’t blame them for not coming out after only a day but I was worried about the compatibility between boesemanis and amano shrimp. Mine are about 2.5 years old so they are quite big and the shrimp were a bit of a range in length but probably the smallest was around 1.5cm or so, so pretty small. I was just wondering if any of you would have any experience with these 2 species as I don’t imagine any of the other fish would pose any danger but I am just worried that they could have been eaten
 
In my experience guppies and platys prey on baby shrimp. I never had rainbows or lemon tetras but assume they would also make a meal out of small shrimp.
 

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