Types of Fish You Can Keep with Cherry Shrimp [Shrimp Saturday]

One of the most common questions we hear is, 'Can I keep fish with my shrimp?' or 'What fish are shrimp-safe?' So, we’re here to answer with 5… actually, 6 shrimp-friendly nano fish that can help you create the community tank of your dreams!

These are fish we’ve personally tried and loved, but we’d love to hear from you too. If you’ve had success with others, drop them in the comments and let us know!

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00:00 Intro
1:59 Endlers
3:52 Otos
5:19 Micro Rasboras
7:11 Pygmy Cories
10:25 Bristlenose Plecos (Hillstream Loach, Boreno Loach)
13:23 BONUS FISH: Rob's Favorite!

[mitchelpinion]

I have cherry shrimp in a 29 gallon tank with panda corys, platys, and harlequin rasboras. The tank is loaded with shrimp that all came from 5 original shrimp.

[michellepinet]

I have Norman's lampeye with cherry shrimp, makes for a really pretty tank. I've never seen the tiger teddy, I think I would love those.

[MrRenoman]

Great video Rob love your selection. god bless buddy

[LowellR]

Hey Rob very nice video, I just ordered some Pygmy sunfish after the restock email just sent out 😂😂😂

[richardfuentes]

I have kept glowlight Tetras with red cherries. They get along just fine

[petervandieren]

I have Ember tetra (Hyphessobrycon amandae) with my Neocaridina.

[Wulfenite]

For my neocaradina I added some fish to the tank but for my new caridina tank I’m doing a shrimp only tank. Love your videos and want to see more videos!. I’ve kept cpds, ember tetras, autos, pencil fish, blue neon tetras, hillstream louch, pigmy Cory’s, and many other small fish that are supposed to be shrimp safe .

[andreagalda]

My ember tetras are living happily with my neo shrimp. They may eat a baby, but I've never seen it and I've got tons of babies.

[swordwhale]

I kept fathead minnows with cherry shrimp for a few years, and the shrimp bred well. I did catch ONE fathead slurping up a shrimp. I think the zebra danios I briefly had ate all the shrimp. The present ordinary guppies seem to be fine with shrimp. I have one assassin snail in a 29 gallon tank with neocaradina and guppies, and two assassin snals in a 20 gal shrimp tank. So far so good with them...

[Finis]

I have a funny story since you mentioned Yoyo loaches as definitely not shrimp-safe and despite this story, yoyo loaches are still 100% not shrimp-safe. 🤣

I moved plants from one tank to another tank that had a large school of yoyo loaches in it. Apparently, I missed a bunch of small Amano shrimp that were hiding within the plants despite my best efforts. I figured it would just be another fancy buffet for the yoyo loaches as I feed them snails often and they kill all of them within minutes of dropping them in. I didn't think much of it but to my surprise, about a year later I still have about 10-15 amano shrimp in that tank with the yoyo loaches. The Amano shrimp are even bold enough to swim around collecting food at feeding times during the day now and the 3-4 inch yoyo loaches will check them out but never even seem to so much as nip at them. It is one of the craziest things I have seen in my tanks.

[ClownTRON]

Endlers are my favorite I had a colony of red cherry shrimp explode houses with Endlers, the more pure the line of endler the more shrimp safe.

[stoneysscapes]

I've been keeping my Neo's with green neons, pygmy hatchets, black neons dwarf chain loaches pygmy corys and Otto's and I have never seen any of the shrimp being messed with but it's a thriving 75 gallon and I feed two X a day

[Trains-With-Shane]

Can't say for sure about baby cherries but my albino corries have never messed with my Amano shrimp.

[FlowstateAquatics]

I think I need to get my hand on some tiger teddy pairs and get breeding, they seem crazy underrepresented in the market right now but they're awesome

[Laura-edkf]

I have a 90G, heavily-planted tank. HUNDREDS of shrimp, 21-fish (a few old guppies, white clouds, SAEs, a pleco). I feed the fish twice a week, the fish are FAT. They’re DEFINITELY eating shrimplettes sadly, but they do their job in keeping the shrimp-population in check.

[GriffsFish]

Also the first fish and last can't both be your favorite.... 😂

[josevicentemeiraferreira]

Hello mate im from Portugal i wold love to learn more about it i just buy 7 shrimps and just lost 2 😢 i donto now what to do mre about it

[vhwft]

See a baby eat a baby. That definitely a new favourite saying for me.

[GriffsFish]

I have a 20 long planted with lots of hiding spots I keep common guppies and neon tetras and two otos with a large colony of cherry shrimp

[slamboy]

I have a cleanup crew of cherries in my Endler tank, there are no shrimpletts and have seen them destroy adults. Once a month I throw in half dozen from my Cherry tank.🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐