Shrimp in 29 gallon community tank-help

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I have setup a 29 gallon lightly planted community tank with beginner friendly plants - (crypts, fern, anubias and valisneria)
The tank is up and running for little over 2 months with 10 neon, 6 rummynose tetra, 3 oto and 5 platys. (I added each set over three weeks so as to give the cycle time to catchup) so far everything has been going great.
I plan to add 6 corycatfish and either 1 angelfish or few honey gouramis in the future.
My question is about shrimps though. I’ve never kept shrimps at all but I would love to give it a go.
Would shrimps be a good idea with the fish I have/plan on keeping?
How many shrimps should I get and what kind?
I would love to see them breed (even if not all shrimplets survive) and generally thrive in the tank. Is that possible?

Any other advice would help. Thanks
 

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This picture is from just before I added any fish to it. So basically a newly cycled ready to go tank awaiting the fishy inhabitants :)
 
OK, there's the picture I requested in your other thread. :) Do you know how hard your water is? You have some soft and hard water species mixed, which could cause problems for someone down the road.

I would stay away from angelfish in a tank this size. They are very social animals and won't live their best life alone, but 29g is far too small for a group.

As for shrimp, I'm a big fan of amanos. They won't breed in fresh water, but they're a nice big shrimp, great at cleaning up leftovers and algae, and big enough that most other fish can't hurt them.
 
The platys might be a problem with shrimp. Amanos are too big for them to eat but they could still take a run at them and harass the shrimps.
 
Would shrimps be a good idea with the fish I have/plan on keeping?
How many shrimps should I get and what kind?
I would love to see them breed (even if not all shrimplets survive) and generally thrive in the tank. Is that possible?

Any other advice would help. Thanks
I also have a 29 gallon tank, purchased used already with inhabitants. There is 1 angelfish, 3 kuhli loaches, 1 SAE, and 5 neons. I also wanted to try shrimp and didn’t want to wait for these inhabitants to live out their lives so I picked up a 5 gallon tank just to keep neocaridina, amphipods and micro crabs.

It is easier to maintain the shrimp tank without having fish as the fish produce a lot more waste than the shrimp do and the shrimp are sensitive to their water conditions. Every time you do a water change in a shrimp tank you are inducing a molt and shrimp are vulnerable during molts. Before their new shell hardens they are soft and can easily be injured/killed by your fish.

Your tank already has two dozen fish so I would also recommend against adding any more fish for your tank. I would get a separate aquarium for your shrimp. Use a sponge over the intake of your filter (if not a sponge filter itself) in your shrimp tank to prevent the new baby shrimplets from being sucked into the filter. I would use RO water and buy shrimp salts/minerals to prepare the water properly for your shrimp, ensuring the proper level of total dissolved solids using a TDS meter. I keep my neocaridina around 180ppm and change their water when they get up around 240ppm.

I think I have around 30 shrimp in my 5 gallon aquarium.
 
OK, there's the picture I requested in your other thread. :) Do you know how hard your water is? You have some soft and hard water species mixed, which could cause problems for someone down the road.

I would stay away from angelfish in a tank this size. They are very social animals and won't live their best life alone, but 29g is far too small for a group.

As for shrimp, I'm a big fan of amanos. They won't breed in fresh water, but they're a nice big shrimp, great at cleaning up leftovers and algae, and big enough that most other fish can't hurt them.
Oh bummer, I really hoped to keep one angelfish as the centerpiece fish. I love their gait. Oh well.
 
OK, there's the picture I requested in your other thread. :) Do you know how hard your water is? You have some soft and hard water species mixed, which could cause problems for someone down the road.

I would stay away from angelfish in a tank this size. They are very social animals and won't live their best life alone, but 29g is far too small for a group.

As for shrimp, I'm a big fan of amanos. They won't breed in fresh water, but they're a nice big shrimp, great at cleaning up leftovers and algae, and big enough that most other fish can't hurt them.
Oh bummer, I really hoped to keep one angelfish as the centerpiece fish. I love their gait. Oh well
I also have a 29 gallon tank, purchased used already with inhabitants. There is 1 angelfish, 3 kuhli loaches, 1 SAE, and 5 neons. I also wanted to try shrimp and didn’t want to wait for these inhabitants to live out their lives so I picked up a 5 gallon tank just to keep neocaridina, amphipods and micro crabs.

It is easier to maintain the shrimp tank without having fish as the fish produce a lot more waste than the shrimp do and the shrimp are sensitive to their water conditions. Every time you do a water change in a shrimp tank you are inducing a molt and shrimp are vulnerable during molts. Before their new shell hardens they are soft and can easily be injured/killed by your fish.

Your tank already has two dozen fish so I would also recommend against adding any more fish for your tank. I would get a separate aquarium for your shrimp. Use a sponge over the intake of your filter (if not a sponge filter itself) in your shrimp tank to prevent the new baby shrimplets from being sucked into the filter. I would use RO water and buy shrimp salts/minerals to prepare the water properly for your shrimp, ensuring the proper level of total dissolved solids using a TDS meter. I keep my neocaridina around 180ppm and change their water when they get up around 240ppm.

I think I have around 30 shrimp in my 5 gallon aquarium.
Thanks! Maybe I can hold off on shrimps and maybe do a nano tank sometime in the future
 

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