Thanks again for the help Darrel. The main thing that's putting me off getting shrimps at the minute is acclimating them into the tank. Never tried drip feed before.
Thanks again for the help Darrel. The main thing that's putting me off getting shrimps at the minute is acclimating them into the tank. Never tried drip feed before.
I’d go with shrimp for clean up as the others have mentioned already. Proper scavengers that will eat almost anything. The corys will need to be target fed and can’t be relied upon to ‘clean up’. In fact I can’t think of any fish that can will properly clean and scavenge, unlike shrimp and snails who will munch anything.Thanks again for the help Darrel. The main thing that's putting me off getting shrimps at the minute is acclimating them into the tank. Never tried drip feed before.
Like yourself Mort, I've bought from Pro Shrimp before but never livestock. It wasn't until I watched a few YT videos that I realised that shrimp are not the dull, lifeless creatures I'd imagined they were.You'd be unlucky to get all the same sex from a random group of shrimp. It's easy to tell the difference between sexes and any shop selling them should happily do you a mix.
I've bought bits and bobs from proshrimp (not shrimp though) and the service has always been excellent, so I'm sure they will be able to offer good advice.