Shrimp Question

[Aqua Tom]

I have been gradualy coming over to the idea of shrimp in my tank. How much do they effect the water compared to fish? I mean is it 1 shrimp per tetra or what?

 

[waterdrop]

Shrimp put almost no bioload on the filtration system (unless you were to get to extremely high numbers, which wouldn't be advisable anyway.)

Some special considerations about shrimp (I believe, but I'm not expert) are:

1) That they can be killed by compounds that include copper (used for various things in tanks.)

2) That they often get killed by the pesticides that are used to protect aquarium plants from insects while they are begin grown in aquatic nurseries. (Of course, this is not a very detectable thing and apparently gets chalked up to mysterious shrimp deaths.)

3) They rather easily get sucked up during substrate maintenance, so emptying your catch-bucket through a large net is sometimes necessary, in addition to a larger catch-bucket sometimes.

~~waterdrop~~