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Okay. I have a 10g, with one plant in it that I occassionally use as a betta breeding tank. It will be idle for the next month or so, and I am thinking of getting some shrimp. I currently have in there:

3x Male Apple Snails
?x Pest Snails (about 5)


I would love to add a few live plants and a nice, colorful, cheap shrimp that will multiply. What do you think?

I Inverts and would like to mix/match a few different ones....

Inky

depending on your species of apple snail, they may eat the shrimp when they molt.

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They are canna apples? gold and ivory

Inky

i keep my shrimps with my apple sanils the shrips are amano shrimps and they dont seem to bother each other at all. the shrimps do breed but it is hard to look after the young as 4 days after hatching they need to be put in to salt water and when older back in to fresh water.

I don't want anything too complicated or expensive, and it looks like I may have to hold off for awhile now, since my tank needs a new heater. I only have 2x M Apples now

Inky

I've never had problems with snails eating the shrimp. It would take a pretty dumb shrimp to sit there long enough for a snail to eat it while molting. Usually they hide out in a hole the snails can't fit in. Provide a few hiding places like that and they will have no problems.

Also applesnails and most shrimp species don't need heaters unless your house is really cold. Many shrimp do fine down to 68-70F. Although preferred temps would be around 72-78F. Snails also live much longer if they are kept in cooler temps and can survive more like 60F without any problems but the eggs will take longer to hatch and they won't grow as fast. A snail at normal tropical temps of around 78F only lives a couple years but kept in cooler temps they have been known to live 5years. I borrowed the heater out of my shrimp tank to heat my saltwater mixing tub so they are heaterless until I feel like buying another one.

My snail that passed on was probubly 1 1/2 - 2 yrs, judging from his size. Is that normal or should he have lived longer? Also if a canna can eat a guppy, Im afraid he could catch a shrimpy too, thats why I am worried

Inky