Shrimp safe with?

[leek86]

Just wondering if you guys thought shrimp such as RCS or crystal reds would be safe with celestial danios (or galaxy rasbora as they were known before reclassification)

 

[HN1]

Yes, they should be fine together. We've kept RCS and other shrimp with CPDs.

 

[bruinsbro1997]

+1
Yep, should be fine

 

[leek86]

I ask as I plan on setting up a planted fluval ebi/flora I plan to stock the yellow variant of the RCS and crystal reds, and just wanted a few nice fish for the mid tank, I thought about celestial danios due to thier small size given the tanks size. And due to the crystal reds price's I dont want a fish that will snack on them, or thier fry if they choose to breed.

 

[alink708]

Have you thought about Microrasbora Erythromicrons? Awesome little fish, I have a large school of them (started with 8) and they never bother the shrimp. Beautiful fish! Somewhat hard to find, especially in shops though. I found mine online.

 

[leek86]

Theyre rather nice, I would definately consider them if i can find them.

 

[GodFan]

Have you thought about Microrasbora Erythromicrons? Awesome little fish, I have a large school of them (started with 8) and they never bother the shrimp. Beautiful fish! Somewhat hard to find, especially in shops though. I found mine online.

Did they breed in your tank or did you buy more?

 

[alink708]

They have been breeding in my tank for 2 years now,they spend alot of time in the bush and i diddnt notice until one day my little cousin was over and exclaimed "You have a baby fish!!" The fry are so tiny but her fresh 10yr old eyes caught them. Now that I look for them i see fry in there almost constantly. Their numbers have pretty much quadrupled then doubled lol from what I can tell by the number of adults...but alot of them hide in the heavy plants so its hard to tell. I have hard Chicago water and never did anything to encourage breeding...guess they like the parameters.
They are tiny fish so not much of a bio load. I just gave a dozen of them to a friend last week... he has been begging for some for the last few months now. Thats what I get for bringing someone into the hobby! i got him into it about a year ago and he already has 3 tanks lol i'm good at getting friends to spend money!!

 

[alink708]

Theyre rather nice, I would definately consider them if i can find them.

They usually have some on aquabid

 

[leek86]

Only one on there and only ships to US. I find most stuff on there is US or outragous shipping internationally.

 

[alink708]

Yea shipping will kill ya. I wanted them too bad though , I think I paid 45 for shipping. makes me wish the local stores had good stuff so we diddnt have to pay that extra cost sometimes.