Red Cherry Shrimp Honey Gourami

The gourami are a very bright yellow with orange and red on the belly and tail. The juveniles shrimp were never seen though the population grew very steadily.

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Different Gourami fish will have different levels of predatory instincts.

Red cherry shrimp honey gourami. I have a 75 gallon aquarium with 1 male Honey Gourami 10 Cardinal Tetras 10 Harlequin Rasboras 8 Gold Tetras 7 Black Neon Tetras and around 15 Panda Corydoras. 4 Add a pair of small honey Gourami along with a school of small Tetras glow lights bloodfins etc. At best your cherry shrimp hide where you never see them at worst they will be gourami food.

Even if the gourami cant eat adult shrimp in one bite he will pick at the shrimp until they die and eat the dead shrimp. I would absolutely love to have some shrimp in here. Platys will also eat fry but given enough hiding space a few will survive.

If you have to keep your Gourami with the Cherry Shrimp try to introduce a lot of Cherries to the tank. Smaller and less aggressive gourami fish will most likely leave shrimp alone. I would make sure you have areas of dense population utilizing mosses and some driftwood or cave type structures for the shrimp to hide in.

There are loads of other colour varieties of this species around including Yellow Red White Green Orange and Yellow and Black and others. This means that they are a red variety of Neocaridina Heteropoda. I kept honey gouramis with cherry shrimp in a moderately planted 36g tank.

3 Add at least 12x adult shrimp and allow them to establish their space for a few weeks. No Co2 injection liquid Co2 ferts plant substrate under hugo kamishi gravel mixed with sandPlantsAnubiasAmazon SwordJava FernLudwigia RepensCryptocorne. Cherry or sometimes Cherry Red shrimp are Neocaridina Heteropoda var Red.

No very unlikely that this works. Theyre peaceful but theyre still fish and will likely eat shrimp they can fit. 3 x Chocolate Gourami in with about 40 CRS and 15 Cherry Red Shrimp.

Gouramis will eat whatever fits in their mouth. Honey Gouramis are peaceful fish. Ahhh the shrimp are a decent size at the mo but i will take that into consideration cheers for the help.

Most fish will eat juvenile shrimp and some will eat adult shrimp. Fry will definitily be eaten and a adult cherry shrimp fits horizontally inside a adult dwarf gouramis mouth. I used to have an aquarium full of Cherry Shrimp and really miss having shrimp.

I have a dwarf gourami in with red cherry shrimp in my planted tank. If youre not trying to raise shrimp that may not matter but if you were hoping the shrimp would produce their own replacements then the fish may interfere with that to some degree and possibly quite severely. This can somehow intimidate the Dwarf Gourami and they are less likely to eat these shrimp.

If the Shrimp can fit in it mouth it will eat them but I have Dwarf gourami and red cherry shrimp in the same tank and they are doing ok. As long as they are put in a tank 10G or larger they will be fine with any other peaceful fishcreature. The shrimpw ill not be.

The Honey Gourami the smallest Gourami is a member of the Belontiidae family originating in India and Bangladesh. Will let you know how i get on. The shrimp numbers will stay low.

The adults were not at risk as they reach an 1 long. To give your shrimp the best chance of survival in a community aquarium you need to provide them with lots of wood or rock hiding places and plenty of vegetative cover. Just be sure to have a lot of hiding place for the shrimp.

Shrimp really benefit from moss and the microlife it sustains. My Dwarf do not mess with the bigger cherrys in. If they do start to go after the shrimp i will be moving them to my other tank.

A Dwarf gourami would probably just eat the baby shrimp. Dwarf and Honey gouramis would probably leave adult shrimp alone but most fish will take the babies. It is a somewhat timid fish less aggressive and territorial than the similar Dwarf Gourami and will spend much of its time in the mid and top water areas among floating plants occasionally taking air from the surface.

On average for each Dwarf Gourami you add to the tank there should be at least 4 Cherry Shrimp. Mar 16 2009.

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