Fish To Cull My Red Cherry Shrimp

I have a heavily planted tank with ember tetra and red cherry shrimp. I need a fish that is suitable for a 10 gallon which would cull down my red cherry shrimp population, because they're getting out of control. Hopefully I could hit two birds with one stone if this same fish would eat seed shrimp, because they're also driving me insane. I don't want the red cherry shrimp wiped, but definitely reduced. My ember tetra are too scared to even pick at them and they don't eat seed shrimp whatsoever.

Also would be a plus if this fish is easy to take care of.

 

kuhlI loaches should eat babies if I'm thinking correctly

 

maybe a dwarf gourami

 

some bettas will eat shrimp. With any kind of fish there is a chance they won't eat the shrimp.

 

guppies or fighters or clown louges

 

guppies or fighters or clown louges

Clown loaches don't work in a 10, but they would finish off a whole colony of shrimp in a day or 2.
I'm thinking a Bolivian or German ram. Mine eat pest snails.

 

Clown loaches don't work in a 10, but they would finish off a whole colony of shrimp in a day or 2.
I'm thinking a Bolivian or German ram. Mine eat pest snails.

Ha! My ram devoured my 15 cherries shrimp I had just bought in 20 Minuite.

The problem with having the culling fish in with the shrimp is when will he stop culling the shrimp. When’s he’s eaten them all? Best option I’d get another tank, and net out the shrimp you don’t want and give it to him in the separate tank. Then *your* controlling the population and don’t have to worry about something eating the entire colony.

 

You could also bring some in to the LFS and mabee get store credit. I do that with plants and unwanted fry.

 

You could also bring some in to the LFS and mabee get store credit. I do that with plants and unwanted fry.

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

 

I would sell them local and see if the stores around you will take them in for store credit or cheap. This is a more beneficial idea for you because you get paid for them overpopulating - fish that cull will not stop because they are thinking look at all this food and I don't know when I'll get food next.

 

Thanks for all the feedback. I've just recently realized I had salt and pepper cory instead of pygmy cory. You think if they get large enough they'll do the job?

 

Thanks for all the feedback. I've just recently realized I had salt and pepper cory instead of pygmy cory. You think if they get large enough they'll do the job?

My cories, I grow out my babies with my shrimp, have never nibbled on a live shrimp, if you starved them i'm sure they would, but peppered and other large type cories need at least a 20 long because they get very large, my largest two females are my aeneus (an albino female just under three inches and a bronze female at three inches), my largest peppered is almost that big as well.

 

I was advised to get Dario Darios for this same reason...

 

Thanks for all the feedback. I've just recently realized I had salt and pepper cory instead of pygmy cory. You think if they get large enough they'll do the job?

Mine don't even go after baby shrimp.

 

Honestly, just sell them off. There aren’t many fish you can stick in a ten gallon tank, since you already have a school of embers in there.

 

I forgot how big the tank was my bad

 

Sell the shrimp?