My Shrimp And Snail Tank

[Addie42]

Hey y’all
I’m just making this so I can have somewhere to post pics of my 5.5gal now it is without fish (rip betta)
I got some cherry shrimp last night and they’re pretty cool. I bought 12ish and accidentally put one in my goldfish tank... I’m really hoping their population just goes crazy
And here’s a pic of my breeding box I used in my goldfish tank to stop the flow from being so severe

In my 5gal I thought I had assassin snails but apparently they’re actually MTS, oops
It’s pretty cute to watch the shrimp clean the Buddha statue in my tank

 

[Thibault Drake]

That’s a really nice tank! Wish I could have that.

 

[Addie42]

That’s a really nice tank! Wish I could have that.

Thank you!
It’s just a top fin 5.5 kit, it’s all really low effort plants (java fern, moss, floating plants and a couple stems). This tank is a couple months old and honestly really easy to do something similar. The “scape” is just me being lazy and throwing in a big rock and a piece of wood LOL

 

[WTFish?]

Love it! I like the wooden skewers idea..is that to hold up the plants?

 

[Addie42]

Love it! I like the wooden skewers idea..is that to hold up the plants?

The wooden skewers is in my goldfish tank (36g) not the shrimp tank. And yea it’s for the plants. I just posted that random pic of the breeding box idea on here too lol

I’m really happy to finally have shrimp

 

[WTFish?]

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The wooden skewers is in my goldfish tank (36g) not the shrimp tank. And yea it’s for the plants. I just posted that random pic of the breeding box idea on here too lol

I’m really happy to finally have shrimp

Oh I see, neat idea. And yeah, shrimp are so fun! Mine won’t stop breeding!

 

[Addie42]

Oh I see, neat idea. And yeah, shrimp are so fun! Mine won’t stop breeding!

Yeah sorry it was pretty hard to follow, oops
I’m really excited for that. Once I get more shrimp I’m going to put some in with my pea puffer and maybe feed some to my goldfish

 

[WTFish?]

Yeah sorry it was pretty hard to follow, oops
I’m really excited for that. Once I get more shrimp I’m going to put some in with my pea puffer and maybe feed some to my goldfish

Oh no worries!...Great idea!

 

[86 ssinit]

You know the puffer will eat them. Also will eat mts. Good looking tank and good luck with it. Also those are some good looking mts. Mine are just brown.

 

[WTFish?]

You know the puffer will eat them. Also will eat mts. Good looking tank and good luck with it. Also those are some good looking mts. Mine are just brown.

I think she means she wants to feed them to her puffer...on purpose.

 

[Addie42]

I think she means she wants to feed them to her puffer...on purpose.

Yeah I’ve been trying to feed Ricardo (the puffer) MTS but I’m not sure if he’s eating them, he’s pretty lazy and spoiled with bloodworms
I don’t really know why I thought my MTS were assasins
The puffer is in another tank https://www.fishlore.com/aquariumfi...-gallon-betta-bowl.390561/page-2#post-4130408

 

[ETNsilverstar]

I think you're gonna have so much fun! If I get overrun with shrimp, I plan to add them to the goldfish tank too.

 

[Addie42]

Me 6 months ago: I don’t like shrimp or snails
Me now: what a cool community of inverts
A giant MTS on the substrate surrounded by its clones, 2 really big red ramshorns, a shrimp, a shrimp on top of a snail
I would be happy to have them everywhere, super cool tank to watch/ use as food for other tanks

 

[Addie42]

Everybody LOVES seaweed!!
The shrimp ATTACKED it. The second I put it in the tank 3 crept up

 

[ETNsilverstar]

That's awesome! The only seaweed I get are the snack sheets, so I'm 99% sure I couldn't give mine any. lol Not like I wanna share anyway...

 

[Addie42]

Yeah Got some biggin ramshorns

 

[ETNsilverstar]

Didn't even notice you were in Canada! lol

 

[Addie42]

This MTS is a beast

 

[Addie42]

Very happy with how shrimp (and ramshorn) infested this tank is becoming. Almost reminds me of ants