Many people combine shrimp with live plants, so if wanting to grow aquarium plants you’ll need a light that encourages plant growth. Use a small LED light to enhance the shrimp colours. Use a thermometer to monitor temperature. You’ll need one watt of heater per litre of water, so a 10 litre tank will only need a 10 watt heater. Heaters for shrimp aquariumsĬherry shrimp are fine at room temperature but for other shrimp, either choose a small, preset heater or a small, adjustable heater/thermostat. Like fish, shrimp don’t like ammonia or nitrite either, so always mature the filter with beneficial bacteria first, and always dechlorinate tap water before using it or use remineralised reverse osmosis water.
Shrimp-proof inlets for external filters are also available. For adults, a small internal power filter will do, but some are more shrimp friendly than others, with fine mesh grills over the intakes. If you want to breed them, choose an air powered sponge filter which won’t suck up their young, and also enable the adults to graze the sponge for food particles. Shrimp tank filtrationįreshwater aquarium shrimp produce very little waste so their tanks can be filtered by tiny filters, and with gentle flow. Amano shrimp are better in tanks of 20 litres or more, and of course, if you don’t combine them with large, predatory fish that will eat them, all shrimp can also be kept in community aquaria of any size. Cherry shrimp and Crystal red shrimp are fine long term in nano tanks as small as 10 litres, meaning that everyone has room for a dedicated shrimp aquarium and set up and running costs are as small as can be. The best bit about keeping shrimp is how small they are, and their minimum tank size. Sulawesi shrimp are super exotic but quite tricky to keep, coming from hard water, mineral-rich lakes. Amano shrimp are the best algae eaters and were the first ornamental shrimp to be widely kept in aquaria, especially in planted aquariums. Red cherry shrimp are the cheapest, stay small and they are good in unheated tanks as well as tropical ones.Ĭrystal red shrimp and their variants are the most colourful and sought after as many patterns can be line bred.
They stay small, eat algae, and some don’t even need a heater! They’re super easy to keep too.įreshwater shrimp inhabit most of the world’s rivers, lakes and streams, but the ones we keep mostly come from Asia, like China, Taiwan, Japan, and Indonesia. Freshwater shrimp can be fun to keep and there are dozens of species and varieties available.
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