N.Galvin
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Dec 31, 2012
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Im thinking of getting some ghost shrimp but will mollies and tiger barbs eat them?
TB's will try to eat them if they are large enough and the shrimp small enough.
If you start with Juvenile TB's and near adult shrimp you'll be in better shape. The good
thing is Ghosties are inexpensive enough that losing them to predation will not be as big a hit on the wallet. An alternative are Amano Shrimp .. they do get large enough for TB's to leave them alone like the one's in my 75gal.
I have ghost shrimp with mollies and they leave each other alone. From time to time the ghost shrimp will challenge a molly for food. The molly just backs off. My shrimp started out small and the mollies never bothered them.
I put 5 cherry shrimp in with my 10 small tiger barbs.... They where like piranha's the shrimp lasted around 10 seconds tops!
My Amano shrimp have been in there since day one and i keep adding them, nothing in the tank bothers them at all