South American Cichlids • Keeping shrimp with............

[Mr.Dempsey]

So im setting up a 20L for 1 male 2 female apistogramma cacatuoides (double red) , Im doing a leaf litter bottom and am going to keep endler guppies with them. I want to see if anyone else has tried or is keeping shrimp with their apistos, i'm going to be using taiwan fire shrimp as I have a large amount in my planted tank and want to see how you guy think it will work out.

[NeptunesNeighborhood]

This is an interesting question. From what I hear the cockatoos love snacking on shrimp, but I have no experience and therefore no answer. How big are those shrimp?

[Mr.Dempsey]

Well I have adults and juveniles so everything from just hatched to 1", I was thinging a with the leaf litter bottom that it would give them a real good hiding spots and the manzanita im using should provide good cover too.

[regani]

I have A. sp. Schwarzkinn (same size as A. cacatuoides) together with glass shrimp in a heavily planted tank and there seem to be no problems with the adult shrimp at least . As long as you have a large enough number of shrimp in the tank some shrimp fry should alwaysmake it, so you should be able to maintain the population.

[little_b10]

my agasii ate all my cherry red shrimp I had in medium planted tank.