I honestly believe a lot of the social media shrimp posts are people who've read other social media posts but never actually kept shrimp with other fish. I'm down to just 3 guppies after they went all Lord Of The Flies, spread between three different tanks, but I had the guppies together with Neos and individually with them as well. Even when they where fighting each other, they never bothered the Neos (or Amano's, bamboo shrimp, or mystery snails). My main shrimp tank still has around 50 nano fish (Danios, ember Tetras, pygmy cories, otos) and a 4" pleco. I find my shrimp breed *faster* with the nano fish because the nano fish eat hydra, whereas a shrimp only tank (or mostly shrimp only) inevitably has hydra that stress the shrimp. Nano fish (including guppies) eat it. People keep saying that small fish will eat baby shrimp. While this isn't impossible, it's definitely not slowing down my shrimps breeding nor have I ever seen a fish looking even remotely interested at even the smallest shrimp baby. I do overfeed, maybe things would change if the nano fish were particularly hungry, but why would I do that? Besides, there's plenty of space where shrimp small enough to be eaten (only VERY newborn shrimp) can hide. Yet I keep reading posts from people saying they would *NEVER* keep fish and shrimp together. I think it comes from all the KZread videos where people caution that fish might eat baby shrimp, but I think that too is just people repeating what they've heard/an overabundance of caution. I started with 12 shrimp and 30 nano fish. I now have many hundreds of shrimp and almost twice as many fish (they're breeding too) maybe 9 months later. I feel if the fish where eating shrimp, I wouldn't be able to do what I do now and scoop out 25-50 shrimp at random to throw into new tanks without any visible impact on population.

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Totally agree mate, I put 12 cherry shrimp into my 29 gallon tank with a bunch of different fish and within 6 months they had managed to create around 250 shrimp.

I have Amano, cherry, and ghost shrimps with male & female guppies in a heavily planted tank. No filter, no Oxygen. I have CO2 using yeast, sugar & water. For the light, I placed it by a window that gets sun 5-8 hours a day. I do 10-20% water change every 2 weeks or so with tap water. My water is soft and I have a large piece of wood that release tannins that make the water slightly more acidic & soft so I add shrimp salt, wonder shells, & crushed corals to a small corner of my tank to balance it out. Everything is flourishing. I occassionally add a cup of green water from my outside pond to keep a healthy micro-culture.

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Great setup, I have been looking into green water for my own tanks but the only source near me is apparently polluted :(.

@ikoyDaPnoy

4 ай бұрын

@@GlassBoxDiaries Oh it's so easy to do. Just get a bunch of fast growing stem plants that don't need CO2 (I picked ones that thrive in rich Nitrates/Nitrites) and plant them in some manure and dirt in a bucket of tap water. Let the plants establish for a week or so. Add 2-3 minnows or mosquito fish. DONE. You'll have unlimited green water. Just be sure not to let it get too green by using that water for stuff like fertilizer. If the cheap cold water fish die, then add something to harden the water ... like shrimp salt, wonder shells, or crushed corals.

I use my floating rings with my salvinia the same way! I just did this recently when I decided I wanted floating clouds instead of a little feeding circle...way easier to spot clean the tank now and better for some of my plants too! I love your shrimp jungles. Just got my first trio of guppies and the first load of fry have been born. Even though they're technically too young to gender, I have a feeling all the greys are female and the few golden coloured fry are the males as it's the same body colour as their dad!

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Cheers mate, yea its far easier to put the floating plants in places where they won't cause light issues for the plants below them when you put them in the circles too :). Good luck with your guppies :).

I'm trying this with some female guppies too.

I keep neos with all my livebearers. Female Guppys are kept in their own tank with green neos. Shrimp take care of failed fry and Guppys lightly snack on neos. They've been together for a year with no problems.

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Yea I thought something like that may be the case with female guppies :).

Great topic.. i m always thinking about it.. i have them separated for now in my tanks until my shrimp colony gets larger in size...

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Cheers mate :)

I have the same kind of moss: it's Taiwan moss. My shrimps adore it.

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Cheers, I was hoping it was because I love the look of it and I added Taiwan moss to one of my betta tanks hoping it was the same :).

I have cherries in with my endler guppy hybrids for the past year and they have been fine.

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Nicce, I really don't think guppies or hybrids are as much of a risk as some people say on social media/forums.

Nice looking tank

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Cheers mate :)

So guppys eat guppy babys and will eat shrimp, you can keep them together but you will lose some shrimp but, a single pair of shrimp will easy make about 100 shrimp in 3 month if keep safe so evin if 75% are eatin you could still think you are breeding shrimp and not mostly feeding live food to the guppys

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Good point mate :)

I put 10 shrimp in with my fighter fish and they have breed up to a large colony with no problems.

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Some bettas seem fine with shrimp too, I have kept three bettas and all three had shrimp in with them, two are fine, one ate them. I think its just luck of the draw with your bettas personality :)

@TitanSummers

4 ай бұрын

This is my first. I got him cheap as he was depressed and they were going to flush him. He came good after a few days in a tank and not a small cup.@@GlassBoxDiaries

I must be doing something wrong. I don't use co2 but my tank is heavily planted, guppies breed like crazy all neo bread like crazy ghost shrimp are breeding, I never check any balance on my tanks. I simply top off my 2 , 40 gallons with water from my pea puffer tank and put fresh water in the pea puffer tank.

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Nice setup :)

Looks like peacock moss.

@GlassBoxDiaries

4 ай бұрын

Cheers, I want more of it :)

@Palatard

4 ай бұрын

​@@GlassBoxDiaries It's very pretty. I bought Flame and Peacock moss when setting up my tank and they were so cool I got a bunch of java moss variant labeled giant xmass or something... It's just a huge stringy mess. Definitely recommend waiting for a chance to get some pretty mosses. The standard java moss or ugly variants are just disappointing when you have beautes like these.