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red cherry shrimp and snails

Started by Guest_jacksmelt_* , Sep 04 2013 10:42 AM

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#1 Guest_jacksmelt_*

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Posted 04 September 2013 - 10:42 AM

i have a 10 gal. breeder tank w/ a sponge filter in it. im currently breeding snails in there. i have some rcs coming in and want to breed them for my fish as well. will the 2 of them coexist in the same tank? or will the shrimp feed on the baby snails?

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#2 Guest_Joshaeus_*

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Posted 04 September 2013 - 11:40 AM

I hope the snails (and shrimp) are to feed a native fish...otherwise it might have been wise to post elsewhere.

Anyways, I haven't heard of red cherries nomming on baby snails, but then again I don't have much experience in the hobby either. I'll just say the two should probably do fine.

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#3 Guest_EricaLyons_*

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Posted 04 September 2013 - 12:30 PM

I had red cherry shrimp but I didn't have a lot of opportunity to study how they interacted with the snails because my pygmy sunfish kept the snail population really low. Theoretically, cherry shrimp are herbivores, specifically algae-vores. Our native palaemonetes shrimp will readily eat snails. They delight in picking up a physa fontinalis in their one pair of claws and using the other to rip their insides out. I never saw one of my cherry shrimp holding a snail that way.

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#4 Guest_Skipjack_*

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Posted 04 September 2013 - 06:56 PM

There will be no problem. Competition for food is the only issue.

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#5 Michael Wolfe

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Posted 04 September 2013 - 08:13 PM

I hope the snails (and shrimp) are to feed a native fish...otherwise it might have been wise to post elsewhere.

I am not sure of the intent here, but both are excellent fish foods...

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#6 Guest_jacksmelt_*

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Posted 04 September 2013 - 09:27 PM

thanks for the info. guys! these are being raised to feed my sunnies who are fussy eaters. none of them will take pellets of any kind and the freeze dried bloodworms are getting expensive. i went with rcs because they're easier to breed than grass shrimp. the snails are ramshorns. i have 1 sunny that takes minnows but the others are still too small.

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#7 Michael Wolfe

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Posted 04 September 2013 - 09:45 PM

I am going to move this to the live food sub-forum... many sunnies love to crunch up a snail... and lots of darters love em too!

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

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#8 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 05 September 2013 - 11:21 AM

I am going to move this to the live food sub-forum... many sunnies love to crunch up a snail... and lots of darters love em too!

Moving my redbreast to my 20 long caused the snails to vanish.

As for shrimp. I learned the hard way, never move cleaner shrimp to a native tank to clean it. It seems every native fish is hardwired to see shrimp as food. They are quite expensive to be feeders.