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@bigmoose7

4 жыл бұрын

Is a peacock goby safe , i saw one in ur vid and he seems really cute, ill put him with some chili rasboras

@bent.5687

4 жыл бұрын

How about cherry barbs?

@apnatva

4 жыл бұрын

How about hatchet fish

@bigmoose7

4 жыл бұрын

@@apnatva Arent they those creepy fish that live super deep

@BrentStewart

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigmoose7 pretty sure you're thinking of angler fish.

I was like "wait... that's not Cory’s voice" 😂

@haykbozoyan7812

4 жыл бұрын

Same😂

@justinrobertson4809

3 жыл бұрын

Got ur 100 Like over here and same

@ivygarcia6878

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@armouredjester1622

3 жыл бұрын

I was like "Wait, this isn't GirlTalksFish"

@Promislandzion

Жыл бұрын

It’s Irene 😭

I think pretty much all fish will predate on shrimplets

@bowser6446

4 жыл бұрын

@Jartopia wow your channel is fascinating

@feltysaquaria819

4 жыл бұрын

My gold white clouds completely leave them alone. They like to stay up top and I only see them try to nip one if the shrimp swim right in front of them. They always get away:)

@feltysaquaria819

4 жыл бұрын

I had a few hundred shrimplets at once in my 20 long with white clouds

@tauneutrino1able

4 жыл бұрын

@@feltysaquaria819 my white clouds generally leave my shrimp alone but they don't breed as much with them and I'm sure that they are eating a few babies on the occasion.

@no-knickers-emma1112

4 жыл бұрын

All fish will eat baby shrimps despite what people say. Female Guppies/Endless I've seen first-hand t as king out junior shrimps

I was today years old when I learned that Gamer’s Wife’s name is Irene. Haven’t kept up much with the fish-tube world this year, so this was a pleasant surprise :O

@trentschmidt2716

4 жыл бұрын

She re-branded to Girl Talks Fish from A Gamer's Wife.

my shrimplets like to crawl all over my frogs and cories like they're some kind of carnival ride.

@brans7269

3 жыл бұрын

What kind of frogs do you have?

@R3VANx

2 жыл бұрын

@@brans7269 i assume its an african dwarf frog

@justinmceachern521

2 жыл бұрын

Dwarf frogs eat shrimp

Irene! Her videos are so well edited/organized! Also, I feel so excited and engaged when she's conveying information!

I love Irene's smiling style of delivery and voice modulation!! Great content, always succinct and well organized.

@leflopjames5628

9 ай бұрын

Seems like a practiced voice...

Been keeping Cherry shrimp for half a year now, i started with 15 and now i have like 200 of them in my 50 gallon. I have 13 Praecox rainbows with them, 6 Julii corydoras, a Bristlenose pleco, 8 Five banded barbs and a pair of Apistogramma borellii opal. Everyday i see like 1 or 2 cherry shrimp being eaten by my rainbows (babies, juveniles and even big adults) but the population of 15 has over 10 folded in around 6 months. I'm not saying this will work for everybody. But it works for me :)

@HyPn0o

4 жыл бұрын

@Hieu TV Prolly a lot of dense plants and general tank cover for them to hide in.

@cawkss8873

4 жыл бұрын

@Hieu TV i have some plants but not that many, the babies hide underneath the crypts and they dont bother with adults unless 1 goes swimming

@proxy4781

4 жыл бұрын

@Hieu TV Feed them frozen bloodworms first defrost of coarse you will see! And get some susswassertang it's supper hiding baby shrimp.

@userequaltoNull

3 жыл бұрын

@@proxy4781 wow, first time I've found someone who doesn't pronounce it "subwassertang" lol.

@proxy4781

3 жыл бұрын

@@userequaltoNull congratulation's.

I’m happy to see some content with Irene in it! Hopefully this means we might be able to get more and varied content while also giving Cory a little more time on his hands

Its Girl Talk Fish / Gamer's Wife! :) I thought I was on the wrong channel for a moment. So glad you guys brought her on. She is fantastic!

I've found that you can totally keep caridina and neocaridina together at 6.7 ph. I have two breeding colonies of shrimp in a tank with endlers: Tangerine tiger shrimp (caridina) and blue dream shrimp (neocaridina, or 'cherries'). Both species are breeding and doing fantastic. So don't be put off if you wanted to try caridina and neocaridina together. Just get one colony established well before the other, to get used to shrimp keeping. Taiwan bees will not work with cherries, though, likely only 'native' species, that are much more wild, like aussie natives, or babaulti, will work; or crystals or tigers. Hope that helps someone getting into shrimp keeping.

My first time seeing a video with Irene and I'm loving the style and quality! Keep up the good work!

@theultimateinferno

4 жыл бұрын

She has her own channel which is very good. Girl Talks Fish.

I would just add that introducing ANY fish to a "shrimp" tank will slow down breeding (stress) and will almost guarantee that there will be some predation on baby shrimp. This being said it's a good list and my 10gal tank that started with 7 cherry shrimp has churned out hundreds of shrimp with a betta and after him some white clouds.

Really loving your recent videos, Irene. So professional, and your presentation style is great!

i love girl talks fish! i’m so glad she got to be in an aquarium co op video. the ways she conveys information is super easy to understand and i love her editing and visuals. the video was also really helpful!

I find that having Celestial Pearl Danios in my tank works really well. I did establish my shrimp well before I added the CPDs and it is heavily planted.

@yefos420

10 ай бұрын

how long did you wait till u added the danios? I plan on doing this exact setup I have shrimp in there atm guessing I should just wait till they start breeding and then add the fish

I'm subscribed to both the Co-op and Girl Talks Fish, I was so confused when I tapped on a notification from Aquarium Co-op and Irene started talking!

@GirlTalksFish

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, surprise!

@dianaconner4469

4 жыл бұрын

I was too. Wait, huh? Did I hit the wrong icon?

Nice to see you here in addition to your own channel, Irene! I keep my Cherry Shrimp with a school of Pristella maxillaris, two Corydoras species, and Nerite Snails in a planted tank with lots of nooks and crannies. So far all is well. ❤️

This is a very good general guidline, 10/10.

@deadbydaylightr.i.p8319

4 жыл бұрын

A solid 4.3 out of five good job

@pjp9383

2 жыл бұрын

@@deadbydaylightr.i.p8319 chirs? repashy?

Anybody else thought they clicked on a Girl Talks Fish video?!? 😂

@angeliatengara4129

4 жыл бұрын

Me omg, i love her channel too bt the way

@CynicalJerome

4 жыл бұрын

Me

I can confirm that ember tetras do very well with cherry shrimp. Both have been reproducing in my 18 gallon for a couple years now very peacefully.

@gh-dw3tg

2 жыл бұрын

I am also thinking about this setup.

We’ve had good luck with our cherry shrimp and White Cloud Mountain minnows. 15 shrimp & 10 WCM in a 15gal planted tank

@magicalbooknerd

2 жыл бұрын

Do the WCM ever eat the shrimp? I’m considering a similar set up!

Thanks for such a helpful intuitive video. ❤️

I have a few with pea puffers. The puffers came first, and when I added the shrimp they were VERY curious at first. I keep them well fed with snails and live brine shrimp, and so far I have yet to notice any shrimp missing, or even being harassed for that matter.

Love seeing the cross over! Great video Loved it.

This was very helpful! I currently have a nano tank with 3 zebra danios and 1 fancy shrimp, i didn’t expect to see them here! My zebras sure do love food, and they will eat until the explode if I let them, but they all live very happily and peacefully together. I think as soon as I added the shrimp, there were some nips here and there, but he has plenty of places to hide and is much faster than my zebras. Anyways, I am upgrading soon and plan to add more of both, as well as some new fish species. The Kuhli Loach is one I’ve had my eye on! So happy to see it on this list! Thank you for the information :)

Good to see you on this channel!

Very informative and Irene does a fine job. Love her bouncy personality!

I love Irene’s voice! Her content is so visually engaging!

White cloud mountain minnows for the win in our eco tank! The long fin variety is stunning!

So informative! So helpful!!

Love Irene!! This is a great video!

Thank you. Very good video and great ideas. I’m going to try kuhli loaches. I love those little guys!!

Great list! I have been keeping Beckford's Pencilfish (Nannostomus beckfordi) with my cherry shrimp for a couple of years, have yet to see them show interest in the cherries, much less eat any. These fish tend to hang out in the mid to upper water column for the most part. I recently added some Metallic Shiners (Pteronotropis metallicus) to the same tank, and have yet to see those go after the cherries. These fish also hang out in the mid to upper water column with the pencils... maybe that's why? Irene is so right about crayfish - my tiny little Least Dwarf Crayfish (Cambarellus diminutus) goes after cherries and ghost shrimp, even in a tank where there is a ton of places for the shrimp to hide, plants and cholla logs and the like. My crayfish likes to hide in the same places, apparently, so his meals come to him, lol...

@pamelak819

4 жыл бұрын

I also have Beckford's Pencilfish (Nannostomus beckfordi) with my cherry shrimp and my shrimp colony is still growing steadily. Very very occasionally I will see the fish try to take a bite of shrimp, but the shrimp are always able to get away.

Great to see Irene making vids on the channel!!!

I was literally reading into this earlier today in UK prepping for new tank. Good timing 👍😂

I've been super lucky with my fem betta girl. She's super sweet and curious about the shrimp. Never seen her attack them sometimes follows them around when she's bored but even the bbs can get close. But one large fem guppie does eat bb shrimp!

Perfect. She covered it great!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I think a good surface dweller would be marbled,silver, or other varieties of hatchet fish. They're super cool kinda oddball fish that hang out at the surface and they stay pretty small.

So with enough cover I find the betta is actually a really good tank mate, but I understand the generality. Love this vid

@jamierichards2235

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard cory say that alot of bettas struggle to catch cherry shrimp and he thought it was a good idea so I added 10 to my bettas tank so far it's going okay

@thanakrit4613

3 жыл бұрын

It ate the small ones in my case but it didn’t try to eat them all the time. Was only troublesome during the first day after introducing the shrimps to the tank as the betta still felt territorial.

@hp5898

3 жыл бұрын

@@thanakrit4613 so actually now, my neons ended up killing full size cherry shrimp. Now I moved them and it’s a shrimp only tank. And shrimp only would be recommendation now tbh

@thanakrit4613

3 жыл бұрын

@@hp5898 that’s scary, thanks for an update! I actually planned to have neons live with shrimps after my betta. Might have to reconsider that

@hp5898

3 жыл бұрын

@@thanakrit4613 lots of people keep them together tho with no problem, mine are just viscous I guess. (Btw The tank was a 36 gallon with 11 neons and 2 honey gouramis and 6 pigmy coreys)

Good guide Irene keep it up😀

Thanks! Great video.

I love stiphodon gobies - all gobies mostly. Such variation it’s beautiful

Exactly the video I needed right now, because my cherry shrimp are about to move into a larger tank in about three or four days. Anyways it's some nice imput, but I think I already settled for a threadfin rainbow and shrimp only tank a while ago, maybe I'll add some khuli loaches too. But I just wanted to mention threadfin rainbows for other people that look for a fish that would work with shrimp, because where I'm from they are less common in most LFS and they are clearly an incredibly beautiful fish, that can take a rather wide variety of temperatures

This is the dream, Cory! Proud of you!

@alisonwilkey2798

4 жыл бұрын

I’m curious? Why are you proud of Cory? Not trying to be sarcastic or rude, genuinely wondering. B/c adding female content creators? Is there something else? I feel like I missed something.

Love these small little things. 😍🤩 awesome

Seen my Amano shrimp eat my cherry shrimp and it's a good size too. So I will say this should be taken into a cautious neocaridina tank mate.

My cherry barbs went for shrimp double their size.. expensive week that was. Went fine for months then BAM one tried it.. rest followed.

@gh-dw3tg

2 жыл бұрын

yup....when they know its food...they will go after em

Heyy, i actually didn't know when i put my male dwarf gourami in with my shrimp that they arent compatible till i saw this video...its nice to know these things altho ive kept the gourami and shrimp in a 15 gallon tank and they lived happily...sadly my gourami passed away last month (R.i.P. Pearl) but ive kept them together for about 8 months and yes @Girltalksfish they breed like rabits, rhank u guys so much for your help throughout last year and this year❤

Thank you for sharing this video 🙂👍

I love Irene she has such a nice voice!

I agree with this list, I keep most of these fish inside my 30 gallon, gobies, Otto's, cories, galaxy rasboaras and I have no issues with my colony breeding and the babies

I had a nice mix of blue, red, yellow, orange and different color rili shrimp. I had 2 very large mystery snails with them. After being gone for a weekend I came home to a dead mystery snail and many dead shrimp. Be careful with snails. They can mess the water quality up in a second if they die.

I've thought about setting up a 40 gallon shrimp tank and just breeding a bunch of different shrimp. Thanks for this video

I personally love marble hatchet fish! I think they would make a great top dwelling fish for a shrimp tank.

I have a 5 gallon planted Beta tank with cherry shrimp. 6 months in ive probably quadrupled in population.

@dij7a

3 жыл бұрын

i put 2 shrimps with my betta ..but the shrimps died with in 2 days dont know the reason

@brandicarroll3495

3 жыл бұрын

@@dij7a did you ever find the body’s? If not they might have got eaten..👀😂

@crystalcorvid2404

3 жыл бұрын

My beta ate all nine of the cherry shrimp I paid 6$ a shrimp for, in one night.

@I0nlyRunFactory

3 жыл бұрын

@@crystalcorvid2404 Some betta are like that, each one has it's own temperament. I had a peaceful betta for a while, the shrimp would crawl on him and he'd just chill. My wife's betta will stalk anything it see's however.

All I can say is Kuhli Loach ate every shrimp I had.

Irene is the best, great video, love cherry shrimp but never kept them with anything but nerites

I have a decent colony of blue neocaridinas in with fish. They are with Ember Tetras, Ottos, Pigmy Corys, aspidoras, Amano Shrimps and a farlowella. I think the aspidoras do snack on the baby shrimps, but enough survive to keep the colony going. I found having plenty of floating plants helps. Funnily enough the colony started from only three tiny hitchhikers, that got a ride in a lump of riccia I moved from my shrimp tank about two years ago.

Grate video, as I've come to expect.

this helps me so much thank you nc im getting shrimps

Yay,, thanks for all the great info😊

I have a few types of molly fish and so far after adding the shrimp we’ve been doing good, but we also aren’t breeding them they’re just meant to be cleaners that are cool to look at

Awesome vid thx!

Thanks Irvin glad to have known you since elementary school

Seemed like a very natural way to convey information. Didn't seem to be reading a list or stumbling around for words. I liked how she also gave "don't s" within the presentation. Spoken how a person would help out a niece just getting into the hobby. Keep it up.

Great video!

I’ve kept mine with guppies, (fancy guppies and endlers) Corey catfish, snails, neon tetras and finally African dwarf frogs! You can’t go wrong with guppies and shrimp (with enough live plants) they will both breed and you’ll have a ton of babies!

I love cherry shrimp!!! I breed mine with snails, green neon tetras and grumpy honey gourami.

Love the vids

I'm pleased to meet you on video. Good job.

Beautiful!!

Hi! Thank you for you very informative video! I do however feel that I must share my experience here. I have read on very many forums that tetras are safe with shrimp but after adding 10 cardinal tetras with my thirty blue dreams shrimp, they went on instant hunt modus and ate almost all of my shrimp. So even very tiny tetras are not suitable to be held in a shrimp tank! I am never ever adding fish to my shrimp tanks agan. I'd rather make another tank if I want to keep fish :p

My ghost shrimp did great with my Neon Tetras. I want to get into cherry shrimps. Couldn't find them in my area. Those will be great for my vacant tank

I have cherry shrimp in a community tank that includes a Female Betta splendens and a Dwarf Flame Gourami and they seem very content to leave the shrimp alone; there is a good plant cover of Ceratophyllum demersum (Foxtail) and Hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum) which the shrimp keep to and there's also enough hidey-hole's for them to escape to, just in case. The shrimp population is increasing also. 👌

Have very good experiences myself combining danio's and shrimp. My largest tank has 7 danio and 6 shrimp species. They all go along great, the danio's do not even try eating them. My guess is, as long as they are fed well, they will leave the shrimp alone. Same goes for, example for Cherry barbs.

I have four betta tanks and all have cherry shrimp. They don't bother each other and I have more fry than I know what to do with. There are also tetra's in two of the tanks. Having the tank well-planted helps, I think.

I've got a tank with orange shrimp that's also got ramshorn snails and Japanese trapdoor snails breeding in it. Fish-wise I've got 6 gold ring danios that I regularly overfeed because everything that hits the bottom of the tank is swarmed on by the snails and shrimp. I just throw in a small Tums once a week to dose all the invertebrates with extra calcium and do regular water changes. Also, when the population gets a bit high, I pluck out a few and throw them in with my clown loaches to give them a treat.

They are very delicious in a risotto and a nice eyecatcher too!

1:08 Ultimate photobomb!! Baby Pleco wins the internets!!

Well I haven't had fish for some time and been wanting to go back it the hobby. Anyways I had a 70 gallon cherry, blues and yellow shrimp "neocaridina" with blue German rams, cardinals, stribias corydoras, hillstream, snails and didn't have a problem but it was a planted tank with rocks etc

Great video!!! Awesome job gamerswife!

I'm keeping my cherry shrimp in a 55-gallon community tank with glass catfish, black phantom tetras, lampeyes, and gertrude rainbow fish. The tank is heavily planted, and there are loads of cherry shrimp. I also have a colony living in my garden pond with goldfish!!!

I'm about to try 10 blue neo shrimp, with two wrestling halfbeaks, and 6 chili rasboras. Heavily planted ten gallon tank with lots of hidey holes. I hope it works because all of these are so cool, and I'll have to start yet another tank if they don't get along.

My betta definitely loves cherry shrimp fry

Thanks Irene! Loved this vid! I did fine with Cherry Barbs and a Sunset Honey Gourami, but now that Mr. Gourami has passed :-( I not only have a baby Cherry Barb who survived (!) but am now thinking about adding some more color. I think Neon or Cardinal Tetras might be the ticket! Or Chile Rasboras.

Emerald dwarf rasboras are the best small fish in my opinion. I call them my hummingbirds. Their fins move like humming bird wings and they zip around. They don't care about any other fish or invertebrate in the tank. Love em.

My Cherry shrimp are thriving in a guppy and Platy tank. I also have Siamese algae eaters and Otto cats. Also lots of live plants to hide in.

I am currently keeping a small school Daisy’s Rice Fish (Oryzias Woworae) in one of my cherry shrimp tanks, everyone gets along nicely and there’s plenty of shrimp fry!

@gh-dw3tg

2 жыл бұрын

I have them in one of my tank too....I have the orange ones (Youkihi) and are doing great so far no casualties. They will however eat the shrimplets so be careful. The shrimps I have in the community tank are culls from my breeding tank. As long as the Adult shrimp lives I am fine with that.

Great vid

A top layer fish that I think would be great would be the platinum halfbeak

Thanks Irene! That was very informative. I really enjoy your vids..whether it's on your channel or Cory's. Do u know if I got 6 green neon tetras and 6 neon green rasboras, would they do any schooling together? That would be cool uf they did. 👍😎🍄

I had a well planted tank (50g) with corydoras, hillstream loaches, blue german rams, cardinals tetras cherry shrimps reds and blue ones some snails o and pair of peacock gudgeon. The main thing that work for me is big colony of shrimps and I made a lava rock mountain maze, with hole big enough for large cherry to go in, but small enough that rams couldn't get in. Wanted to try a pair of Japanese fire red apistogrammas but couldn't find them at the time

For me, Kuhli Loaches are a no-go for shrimp. I got a pair of Kuhli loaches for my 20 gallon (ca. 76 liters), and they wiped out my shrimp colony. They also wiped out my snail population too. So if you need to get rid of snails, I would recomend Kuhli Loaches!

I started with 10 cherry shrimp a year ago, now well over 100. I keep them with Otos and neon tetra. I thought the tetra might pick off some of the smaller ones, they were curious about the shrimp to begin with but seem to have decided they are not food.

Hatchetfish have been with my shrimp colony for about two years. No problems. The shrimp swim right at them and even bounce off of them when they're excited for food or mating.

I've got a German ram with several Amano shrimp and some tetras and never had any issues!

I've had many bettas work well which is impressive, but it's pretty cool

@animangusz7505

2 жыл бұрын

My betta chilled with my shrimp for about a month and then started picking them off one by one. Now I have no shrimp and a very guilty betta fish :(( still love him though he's got a great personality, he's just a loner

Panda loaches work amazing in mine.

Great idea for an extra video to have come out during the week as a surprise!! She’s very good at explaining concepts! Love the vid 😁