Amano shrimp in rams tank

[Huckleberry77]

I ordered some amano shrimp to help with cleaning up fish food, melted plant matter, and algae in my ram and green neon tank. Any advice/insights on making this work? I got the shrimp because I don’t really like Plecos and cory cats would take up too much space on the bottom of the tank that the rams need. I’m thinking that if I can grow these amanos out to extra large size in the Rams tank then I can move some of them to my Rainbowfish tank and they can help clean up algae there. I hear that they might try to eat the ram fry. But if I wanna raise the fry I can always remove them from this tank and raise them separately. Maybe it will also give the male ram something to focus on defending his fry from rather than picking on the female ram.

 

[ruud]

I always recommend Neocaridina shrimp for most tank purposes. Especially Neocaridina zhangjiajiensis, the white / snowball variety. They are a smaller and more docile alternative to amano. And blend in nicely with any scape or tank. Some shrimplets survive, thereby offering continuity of your population. In tanks where these shrimp are completely left to their mercy, and overfeeding of fish does not take place, you'll have plenty of these shrimp over time, without ever having the impression you have too many. And because they blend in so nicely, they won't "steal the show" in a tank.

I have a tank with amano shrimp and small Dario fry. Not sure about the predatory behavior of amano. But they are an assertive species, that's for sure. Make sure they can't escape your tank the first 24-48 hours after introducing them. They initially have a strong tendency to flee and are cable of walking on land.

I skip the not posed question of water hardness, rams vs shrimp, for a minute. I have to go.

 

[Huckleberry77]

I always recommend Neocaridina shrimp for most tank purposes. Especially Neocaridina zhangjiajiensis, the white / snowball variety. They are a smaller and more docile alternative to amano. And blend in nicely with any scape or tank. Some shrimplets survive, thereby offering continuity of your population. In tanks where these shrimp are completely left to their mercy, and overfeeding of fish does not take place, you'll have plenty of these shrimp over time, without ever having the impression you have too many. And because they blend in so nicely, they won't "steal the show" in a tank.

I have a tank with amano shrimp and small Dario fry. Not sure about the predatory behavior of amano. But they are an assertive species, that's for sure. Make sure they can't escape your tank the first 24-48 hours after introducing them. They initially have a strong tendency to flee and are cable of walking on land.

I skip the not posed question of water hardness, rams vs shrimp, for a minute. I have to go.

I would love to have neos in my ram tank, but my male ram aggressively hunted down the RCS that came with some plants so I figured that’s not going to work with him in the tank. That’s why I moved up a size to amanos. I do have blue, yellow, and red neos so I could try adding culls in with the rams and see what happens.

My understanding was that amanos were very hardy and adaptable like RCS. My Gh is 3 and KH is 3. Ph 7.2.