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can anyone suggest a suitable shrimp to keep with a male betta, 5 cherry barbs and 3 ottos in a 15g with sand substrate and artificial planting?

i am looking for something to clean up uneaten food if possible.

hi... why not try the red cherry shrimp..i just got them.. ive heard and read that they eat more types of algae than the amanos.. and they are smaller and hardy as well..just grow up to 1 inch.. and of course...they will happily munch on ur detritus!!! cheers!!!

will they be ok with a betta? dont want to buy something that will get eaten.
and will they eat food leftovers?

Singapore Wood Shrimp!!!
Very cool fish, both a filter feeder and a bottom grubber. These shrimp get large, in fact they are one of the largest freshwater shrimp in the world! At maturity a Wood Shrimp will be 3-4 inches. I think they are a great addition to any tank, except maybe with large cichlids.
This shrimp is too large to be eaten by most tropical community type fish, and I keep mine with Discus, Pearl Gourami, Catfish and Botia as well as other fish.
If kept in a planted tank and supplemented with a monthly dose of Marine Iodine, (2-3 drops per 10g), these shrimp will appear golden-creamy with beautiful red stripes haloed with white. I will attach a couple of pics for your viewing pleasure of mine- I call him "Lobstrosity"
*P.S. These shrimp are sometimes called "Banana Shrimp".





This one is not mine, but its a good full body pic of a Wood Shrimp.
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Very cool fish, both a filter feeder and a bottom grubber. These shrimp get large, in fact they are one of the largest freshwater shrimp in the world! At maturity a Wood Shrimp will be 3-4 inches.

Actually, many species of the genus Macrobrachium easily exceed four inches; M. carcinus may attain a length of 26 inches.

i dont think so...i dont fancy betta but i do have other fish in my tank...the cherry shrimp will fight back to defend itself as ive seen myself. they will feed on detritus and algae. and they r considered way better than the amanos.

The singapore wood shrimp, also sometimes called bamboo shrimp, would definately be ok. i have never kept cherry shrimp but thier size sounds similar to glass or ghost shrimp and i betta will definately eat glass shrimp.

Last edited by Sonic2041 at 03-May-2005 22:34

I had a 4" wood shrimp for a while. That was until my 2" figure 8 puffer ripped him apart.

Thow a couple cheap ghost shrimp in there first to test it out.. Bettas are known to love a shrimp dinner..

I'd recommend Amano shrimp, twice as large as red cherries, not as shy and can definately defend themselves. Not bad cleaners either.

The Amazon Nut...

Hello!

I added four semi-juvenile cherry shrimp to my heavily planted 5-gallon hex Betta tank last week, and I have only seen two shrimp since then. If you do decide to add some cherry shrimp with your Betta, I would suggest waiting until they are bigger, just in case.

On a side note, that wood shrimp looks amazing! I’ll be keeping my eye out for one of those.

Dave

Hi, just to let you know i think it depends a lot on the temperament of the betta. I tried my betta, Genghis with a fully grown amano shrimp (about and inch and a half) and he tried to eat it almost instantly......

I don't think you can really say until you try it, although I have seen those wood shrimp and doubt a betta would attack one of those, they are huge!

hey i dont know if this helps any...

i have a 29 gallon with 4 2-3 inch angels, i dumped 24 ghost shrimps in there, 10 days later, 21 disappeared (eaten) because i saw the angels with shrimp "whiskers" hanging out of their mouths. 1 found one on gravel with shell only, and 2 found under my light fixture dried and orange color....

glass shrimp are not a good example to use on how fish behave with shrimp. there is a reason why they are sometimes used as feeders.

bamboo shrimp are huge so there shell is probably too strong for fish to break.

we saw some rock shrimp yesterday, think i might go back and get them.
due to bad behaviour i have had to move 4 serpae tetra into that tank now so i cant have the beta.

if u live OZ there ain't a huge variety of shrimp
on the maket and the only ones out there are agresive

Last edited by goldfishkeeper at 03-Jun-2005 03:44

if u live OZ there ain't a huge variety of shrimp
on the maket and the only ones out there are agresive

I beg to differ- Australia has a vast range of native freshwater shrimp species, most all of which are not nearly as aggressive as the Macrobrachium spp. you speak of.