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  1. I keep a 5g going on the kitchen counter. So far it has stayed occupied with growing out fry, quarantines, etc. I had one nerite in there to clean up an algae start, and he went (gratefully, it seemed) back to the main tank when I had to medicate a fish. The tank has a thin coat of gravel on the bottom, and one plant potted in a dollar store mini candle holder, as well as a 'hide' cave with some moss attached, and some floating plants. All of the plants can easily be removed as needed. Currently a male guppy who's HUGE tail fin split due to bullying by other guppy males is living in there. I'm planning on buying some CPDs for my display tank, and they will quarantine in there for awhile. It seems to stay pretty busy, actually.
  2. True. But, it IS rather funny, when I think about it - 2 red descriptions in one name for one type of neocaridina shrimp! 😄
  3. I'm looking at putting Celestial Pearl Danios in with my shrimp. My neocaridinas are currently in with a Honey Gourami, 2 guppy males, 1 endler male, and 5 neon tetras, and a bristlenose pleco. My aquarium has a BIG dense Taiwan Moss tree (~11" tall, with a canopy spread of over 12") in which the shrimp can refuge and release their hatchlings. I'm generously gifting cherry shrimp any time a friend asks for them! The shrimp are quite prolific! The Honey Gourami is often on inspection rounds of the moss tree, as is the endler male, picking at this and that, one suspects the bolder, newly hatched shrimp. I believe the Gourami is also eating tiny gyro snail hatchlings as well, controlling their numbers. The Gourami is FAT and healthy! He does not harm the adult shrimp, or even the tinys that are coloring up, and getting around the tank on their cleaning missions. He DOES annoy them a bit, by tickling them with his feelers, while they are feeding, to back them off and let him eat their shrimpee pellet! They just stand back, offended, watching him, and just resume eating the pellet after the Gourami moves on. Meanwhile, the shrimp are contentedly swarming all over everything in the aquarium.
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