James_in_MN
Aquarium Advice FINatic
After being gone for over a week, I've returned to see that all of my fish have survived my absence. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the ghost shrimp, which looks to have gone from 9 shrimp down to 3. I probably don't quite have enough hiding spaces for them, which spells doom when molting, although I don't see any exoskeletons lying on the gravel.
My first thought is to stop restocking my tank with ghost shrimp and buy corys instead. The problem is, I stocked my tank with the thought that I'd have low bio-load ghost shrimp instead of higher bio-load cories. Not only that, but my tank is a 20g high, so there is less ground for a pack of cories to cover.
In my 20g high, I currently have:
10 black neon tetras
5 five banded barbs
2 female bettas
3 ottos
1 nerite snail
3-ish ghost shrimp
Should I avoid cory cats with that many fish, and instead keep trying ghost shrimp?
My first thought is to stop restocking my tank with ghost shrimp and buy corys instead. The problem is, I stocked my tank with the thought that I'd have low bio-load ghost shrimp instead of higher bio-load cories. Not only that, but my tank is a 20g high, so there is less ground for a pack of cories to cover.
In my 20g high, I currently have:
10 black neon tetras
5 five banded barbs
2 female bettas
3 ottos
1 nerite snail
3-ish ghost shrimp
Should I avoid cory cats with that many fish, and instead keep trying ghost shrimp?