Guppies,Shrimp and CPO

[DjPotter79]

Would guppies do well in a shrimp tank along with dwarf orange crayfish... Your thoughts please

 

[Tetra1990]

How big are your shrimp. Your cray might have a pricey lunch IMO. Guppies might be fast enough to evade being cray food. How big is the tank? If it's big enough, I would go with zebra danios. Real fast and top swimmers, may evade your cray.

 

[absolutangel04]

Cpo are smaller than guppies and are community safe. However, I have had guppies who picked at ghost shrimp (and other similar shrimp), so I personally wouldn't risk the cpo's with them, because if it didn't work out, it would be an expensive mistake. I would go with nano fish instead. If you want to try guppies, it would probably work, I just don't think it's worth the little bit of risk of it not working. Up to you though.

 

[DjPotter79]

Thanks for replying guys I appreciate it.
Could you give me some nano fish ideas please.

 

[absolutangel04]

Chili raboras, dwarf spotted rasboras, emerald rasbora, ember tetra, celestial pearl danio are a few that pop to mind.
If the tank is big enough, there are a few more options too. If the tank is 10g, there are also clown killifish, norman's lampeye killifish, Endler's livebearers, sparkling gouramis, ruby tetras, jellybean tetras, and green neons.

 

[DjPotter79]

Thanks man awesome list... I'm thinking Of going with a 20 gallon long

 

[absolutangel04]

Cool. Another option for a 20 long is threadfin rainbows. They are very pretty little guys. In a 20 long, you can fit a nice, big school of nano fish and it will look awesome!

 

[guppytank29]

Well i have ghost shrimp and guppies together and nothing happens. plus if your doing ghost shrimp if you lose 1 or 2 its not that bad there cheep.