Shrimp in a 1gallon

[AquaCaitlin]

I have a one gallon tank I just took out of storage and was wondering if I could make it into a blue dream shrimp tank?

It will be planted with Java moss, Java fern, and maybe an Anubias with a light and a filter. 50% water changes a week.

I will also be letting the tank run for a month or so to get everything nice and matured before adding the shrimp.

If I can do some Neocaridina how many? I was thinking maybe five...

 

[AquaEmptiness]

I think that sounds feasible. I've been looking into shrimps for my tank as well, and there's a 1.3 gallon on youtube with 6 shrimp and "more coming". Though it's from last year and I can't seem to find an update. But it's been done! So that's good.

Edit. This is the original video:

And in the 2 week update, he removed the 4 cherry shrimp and added 14 (!) neocaridinas.

 

[e_watson09]

You can definitely keep shrimp in it just keep a close eye on your water parameters. It is much harder to stay consistent in a nano tank and shrimp can be pretty sensitive

 

[Flyfisha]

Hi all,
I have an experimental 2.5 gallon cherry shrimp also called Neocardinia tank which I thought was incredibly small at first. Having run it for a few months now I think a 1 gallon is possibly.
You still need a cycled filter with the necessary bacteria to keep the worst of the toxins away. Yes having algae is a good idea but it’s NOT essential in my opinion as long as you have established wood ,old leaf litter, old gravel, old bark , alder cones and an old filter to add to a tank . Having it sit around for a month does not achieve much if you then insist on cleaning ALL the glass panels. IMO.

Water changes are a controversial subject with cherry shrimp. Let’s say just go easy on the volume if you are new to cherry shrimp tanks. My current experiment is to see how multiple 30% -40% temperature matched conditioned water changes go. So far so good.
I don’t recommend a 50% water change but have done it with fish and cherry tanks.
You will I suggest be in big trouble if you try a 50% after a fortnight or longer. IMO a little and often is safe.

Starting with 5 is a good number. Hopefully you will still have dozens in a few months time?

Just for your information.
i have accidentally had cherry shrimp turn up in filter less tanks but would not do it deliberately and definitely not in a extremely small volume of water.

 

[AquaCaitlin]

Hi all,
I have an experimental 2.5 gallon cherry shrimp also called Neocardinia tank which I thought was incredibly small at first. Having run it for a few months now I think a 1 gallon is possibly.
You still need a cycled filter with the necessary bacteria to keep the worst of the toxins away. Yes having algae is a good idea but it’s NOT essential in my opinion as long as you have established wood ,old leaf litter, old gravel, old bark , alder cones and an old filter to add to a tank . Having it sit around for a month does not achieve much if you then insist on cleaning ALL the glass panels. IMO.

Water changes are a controversial subject with cherry shrimp. Let’s say just go easy on the volume if you are new to cherry shrimp tanks. My current experiment is to see how multiple 30% -40% temperature matched conditioned water changes go. So far so good.
I don’t recommend a 50% water change but have done it with fish and cherry tanks.
You will I suggest be in big trouble if you try a 50% after a fortnight or longer. IMO a little and often is safe.

Starting with 5 is a good number. Hopefully you will still have dozens in a few months time?

Just for your information.
i have accidentally had cherry shrimp turn up in filter less tanks but would not do it deliberately and definitely not in a extremely small volume of water.

Thank you for all the info, everyone!

My plan is for a thin layer of gravel (to provide more water volume) with some scattered oak litter, moss, and plants.

So I should do more like 30% water changes, and keep a close eye on those parameters because it’s such a small tank?

 

[Flyfisha]

I did say water changes for shrimp tanks are controversial. Perhaps that is why everyone goes quite?

All I can say is what works for me with my water. At my temperature with my cherry shrimp.

A little and often. I started with 5 cherry shrimp 3 years ago. I give them away, sell them at auction and use them for live food. I have them in every tank now including those species of fish that hunt do adults . ( blue acara and Apistogramma etc.)
I have them in fry tanks as food for the fry as they get older.
When cherry shrimp are in a fish tank they make do with fish style water changes of my choice that is 45% once a week.
When cherry shrimp are in grow out tanks like this BN pleco grow out they make do with 2 or 3 40% changes each week. Sorry I can’t tell you how to keep them in a 1 gallon as I have only played around with a 2.5 that possibly has 30 shrimp at the moment.
Feeding time in the BN pleco grow out tank last week.
Second shot same tank when the BN pleco fry were just a few days old.

 

[SnookusFish]

I havent done it but my cousin has a ton of 1-2 gallon walstad bowls and jars with dwarf shrimp. Packed with plants, no filter or water movement and they are breeding.

 

[Flyfisha]

By accident I had cherry shrimp grow from tiny day old to adulthood in an abandoned adult daphnia project on the floor out of sight. No filter no light no water changes no food just a few best snails and perhaps some dead daphnia for the first week of the 3 months that they were on the floor in the dark.
I have seen cherry shrimp in 42 degrees centigrade/ 108 F water outside. No filter no water changes no added food. These things are possible but not recommended by me.