Help for a newbie - sorry it's long

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earhtmother

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I have a 65 with guppies & cherrys, yellow blue shrimp & amano shrimp
I admit the shrimp started as an "ooo let's try this" moment that just turned out right but I love them. Yes they have interbred as I see colour morphs I KNOW weren't there originally but I don't mind the mutts. What I am curious about though is if the Amano will hunt the smaller ones? Someone told me no but I I saw one eating a cherry guy the other day (although I did NOT see the *hunt*) & now I am wondering of I am promoting cannibalism or whether the cherry was was dead/dying & the amano was *doing what comes naturally*

On a different but related note a girlfriend has a 3 gal *aqua-ponics* tank & would like 7 of my shrimp to replace the deceased betta that was living in it. This raises a few questions for me since tiny tanks have never been something I've been interested in.
1 ) Can the shrimp survive without additional heat as I am pretty sure there is NO heater
2) What, what quantity & how often should she feed them? Mine eat the flake, NorthFin veggie pellets & NorthFin kelp wafers I throw in for the rest of the tank inhabitants so have never had to worry about specifics.

THANKS
 
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