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I have a five gallon tank with cherry shrimp, but I've heard that bettas will eat them. Is this just the males, or is it all of them? I would be fine with a less fancy female if it meant my shrimp were safe.
It's difficult to say, depends on the individual fish.
My scarlet badis pair don't even look at the RCS. On the other hand I've seen my less than 1" clown killies stalking blue rili shrimp far larger than themselves!
Edit: I was trying to find a centerpiece fish for my red rili tank, gave one of my sparkling gouramis a trial run after most folks agreed it should be ok. This gourami had a taste for shrimp though....