I am looking for ghost shrimp "friendly" fish. To indicate what I mean by that, let me explain...
A while back, I added some ghost shrimp to a tank with 6 zebra danios, 5 dwarf rainbowfish, and 3 cory cats. When they first were in, they would walk all over. But within a few minutes I saw a couple of the rainbows sort of picking at the shrimp--not really seriously attacking them, just sorta making little lunges at them when they would see them. Now, there is no way that a rainbowfish is actually going to eat one of these things--and I've seen rainbows when they are going after food, and it wasn't the same thing. But they would just pester the shrimp when they would see them.
Net result: from that time onward, I would never see any of my four ghost shrimp unless I was peering into a cave area, or a very very very thickly planted area. The only time the shrimp would ever "come out" was after the lights had gone out.
Well, earlier today due to disease, I had to euthanize my five rainbows. (If you care, I spoke about it in a thread on the sick fish forum.)
A few hours later, I was walking by my tank, and lo and behold, I see a ghost shrimp walking out in plain sight. Then I look to the other part of the tank, see another. I walk completely around, and all 4 ghost shrimp are alive and well, walking in plain sight, sometimes even swimming through the water column halfway up the height. Sometimes my zebra danios and cory cats will run into them and make them jump away, but it is always accidental--and the shrimp seem to recognize that!
SO... in my book, I would call zebra danios and cory cats "ghost shrimp friendly," while dwarf rainbowfish I would say are not.
Using that definition, can anyone else share what fish they have that are friendly to ghost shrimp? (Or, ones that aren't?) I am particularly interested in if anyone has had experience with any of the following:
-- lemon, serpae, or rummynose tetras
-- livebearers
-- German or Bolivian rams
-- cherry barbs
-- gouramis of any sort, esp. dwarf and pearl/opaline
Thanks!
A while back, I added some ghost shrimp to a tank with 6 zebra danios, 5 dwarf rainbowfish, and 3 cory cats. When they first were in, they would walk all over. But within a few minutes I saw a couple of the rainbows sort of picking at the shrimp--not really seriously attacking them, just sorta making little lunges at them when they would see them. Now, there is no way that a rainbowfish is actually going to eat one of these things--and I've seen rainbows when they are going after food, and it wasn't the same thing. But they would just pester the shrimp when they would see them.
Net result: from that time onward, I would never see any of my four ghost shrimp unless I was peering into a cave area, or a very very very thickly planted area. The only time the shrimp would ever "come out" was after the lights had gone out.
Well, earlier today due to disease, I had to euthanize my five rainbows. (If you care, I spoke about it in a thread on the sick fish forum.)
A few hours later, I was walking by my tank, and lo and behold, I see a ghost shrimp walking out in plain sight. Then I look to the other part of the tank, see another. I walk completely around, and all 4 ghost shrimp are alive and well, walking in plain sight, sometimes even swimming through the water column halfway up the height. Sometimes my zebra danios and cory cats will run into them and make them jump away, but it is always accidental--and the shrimp seem to recognize that!
SO... in my book, I would call zebra danios and cory cats "ghost shrimp friendly," while dwarf rainbowfish I would say are not.
Using that definition, can anyone else share what fish they have that are friendly to ghost shrimp? (Or, ones that aren't?) I am particularly interested in if anyone has had experience with any of the following:
-- lemon, serpae, or rummynose tetras
-- livebearers
-- German or Bolivian rams
-- cherry barbs
-- gouramis of any sort, esp. dwarf and pearl/opaline
Thanks!