i have a 55 gal planted tank with a doz crs and 6 orange bee shrimp. I just ordered some cacatuoides, are they gonna eat my shrimp? If the cacatuoides are small enough and the crs breed can they live in harmony. Are there any "cleaner" fish that will leave the fry alone. I have a sae, flying fox, a bushynose and a blue phantom pleco, and a few otto cats. If the cacatuoides have plenty of caves and places to hide will this enable them to breed and multiply?
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cacatuoides and shrimp
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Your shimp will slowly disappear once the A. cacatuoides get some size. As the shimp grow, the shed their hard exoskeleton for a short period. If the apistos find them at this time, they will eat them. Most people believe that the best algae eaters for a planted tank containing apistos are Otocinclus.
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plecs are very powerful fish and would not worry about trying to get at your cacatouides eggs, ensure a small entrance to your caves and maybe weigh them down
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I have had some luck keeping red cherry shrimp with everything from Apistos to Discus. Discus do eat them yet some are always present somewhere. I have managed to keep them with A. cacautuoides, A. borelli, A. iniridae and A. baenschi. They trick seems to be to introduce a large number of shrimp and have plenty of plant cover. Ceratophyllum is an especially good refuge.
I raise them in the high hundreds and they have spread accidentally through plant transfers. They won't achieve high populations with these other fish, however. I would expect little survival with adult SAE's.
I raise them in the high hundreds and they have spread accidentally through plant transfers. They won't achieve high populations with these other fish, however. I would expect little survival with adult SAE's.
I'm just starting to stock a tank I'm getting ready for some apistos, and I grabbed a couple Otocinclus. They are about 1" right now, and went right for the patch of algae I had growing on my back wall after about an hour in the tank. They almost have the glass cleared already! Good recommendation!
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Tray,
Don't give up too quickly on the ghost shrimp as they do very well with Dwarf Cichlids and even adult discus. I would recommend getting at least a dozen. You might lose a couple but they generally are hardy animals. I breed my own and have been able to keep them with even Dwarf Pike Cichlids, Crenicichla regani. I put them in there for food but the dwarf pikes are sticking with live black worms and frozen lood worms.
Don't give up too quickly on the ghost shrimp as they do very well with Dwarf Cichlids and even adult discus. I would recommend getting at least a dozen. You might lose a couple but they generally are hardy animals. I breed my own and have been able to keep them with even Dwarf Pike Cichlids, Crenicichla regani. I put them in there for food but the dwarf pikes are sticking with live black worms and frozen lood worms.
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