[jyl]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

A tetra the size of a bleeding heart will eat shrimp. The loaches are probably not eating them but with fish, the general rule is if it can fit in its mouth….and if you want the shrimp to multiply, the loaches will definitely eat the babies. I wouldnt keep shrimp with any loach or any bottom feeder such as Cory catfish. The shrimp are the bottom feeder

Problem with keeping fish with shrimp is getting the food to the shrimp. The loaches will eat the pellets. I got some fish off aquabid once and the seller thought he was being generous and included some free guppies. I had not planned for that so I put them in my shrimp tank. A year later the 4 guppies had turned into 200 guppies and my shrimp started starving off…..screwed up the ecosystem in that tank and took me several years of separating mails from females to get back to just shrimp. The guppies paid no attention to the shrimp btw

If the cherry shrimp die off, you might try a couple ghost shrimp. They are larger but likely won’t breed. I’ve had 2 that are now almost 3 years old

What you have is a nano tank and cherry shrimp should be with nano fish…..like neons or smaller…..you might find a definition of a nano fish being a fish 2 inches or less. I don’t consider that size a nano fish. To me, nano is neon or smaller

What do you think about aquatic crabs? Something that stays very small (nano?).