Will my fish get killed?

[Rocky06fx4]

If I buy a shrimp?
If so, should I only get one or can I get 2 or 3?

[Kuli_Loach]

What kind of shrimp? I have bamboo shrimp in two of my tanks.

[Rocky06fx4]

I have no preference more concerned about the shrimp eating/tortureing my tank buddies.

Never had a shrimp before and i'm curious how this will turn out.

[Rue]

Shrimp are primarily scavengers and detritivores...at least any FW species commonly sold...I have one remaining bamboo shrimp as well...

I wouldn't worry about shrimp...

Crayfish...well, that's another story...avoid those...

[Rocky06fx4]

Shrimp are primarily scavengers and detritivores...at least any FW species commonly sold...I have one remaining bamboo shrimp as well...

I wouldn't worry about shrimp...

Crayfish...well, that's another story...avoid those...

You rock!

[RobbieG]

Rue is absolutely right about the crayfish - they are able to kill and eat much larger fish than you'd think looking at them!

Make sure the LFS you use knows the difference - I've seen crayfish sold as "rock shrimp" & "blue shrimp" at a few different places.

Real shrimp seem to be hard to get around here and cost about twice what they did last summer so I guess they're (the stores) trying to save a few bucks.

[Kuli_Loach]

My bamboo shrimp were 6$ each. They are larger so my other fish don't eat them. Don't get cherry red shrimp, they are just expensive fish food.

[troy]

Ghost shrimp can kill young live-bearers. The best bet would be bamboo shrimp because they are filter feeders. I don't know about the other shrimp because I've never read about them.

[j0hnh0lmes]

Ghost shrimp can kill young live-bearers. The best bet would be bamboo shrimp because they are filter feeders. I don't know about the other shrimp because I've never read about them.

Good to know as I'm getting some Edler's Live-bearers soon, and was thinking of getting some shrimp

[troy]

My brother had a ghost shrimp when he added 2 feeder guppies and within a minutes or two one or both were killed by the shrimp.FWI feeder guppies and endlers livevbearers are almost the same thing.