How many amano shrimp

[DASHRIMPMONSTER]

I have a 50 gallon hob filter 5 black skirt tetras, 6 harlequin rasboras, and three platies, Plants: an amazon sword, java moss, some floating bacopa, 2 java ferns and a lot of hornwort. The tank is a 20 gallon high how many amanos cAn I do if I can do any

 

[Brookster123]

20 anyways. They're not going to change bioload drastically.

 

[DASHRIMPMONSTER]

So 20 or less?

 

[DASHRIMPMONSTER]

Also, I would like to try a 10 gallon DP tank with about 10 or 20 rcs OR 6 amanos, OR 10 ghosts AND a colony of MTS.... I dont really care if my puff tears apart the ghosts, I would use them for feeders anyways. 1) It would be a heavily planted tank, but would any shrimp survive?, and 2) How many MTS would I need for a steady colony for one puffer?

 

[Vladka]

Also, I would like to try a 10 gallon DP tank with about 10 or 20 rcs OR 6 amanos, OR 10 ghosts AND a colony of MTS.... I dont really care if my puff tears apart the ghosts, I would use them for feeders anyways. 1) It would be a heavily planted tank, but would any shrimp survive?, and 2) How many MTS would I need for a steady colony for one puffer?

All I can add here is that I had a 20 gallon with 100 rcs and then I added 1 betta.... within a month and a half I had 0 rcs left. They don’t fit in his mouth but he can tear them apart alive then eat them.

 

[DASHRIMPMONSTER]

Oh... so would amanos be the best option? I MEAN NO SARCASM

 

[Delapool]

I’ve had ninja shrimp survive well in a bolbitis fern. Maybe the java fern as well when I had big clumps of it (foot across). Never saw them normally but did find them on doing tank re-scapes.