Betta Fish Eating Cherry Shrimp

As cherry shrimp are very small in comparison to the other species we ve mentioned there is a good chance that larger fish in your tank could try to eat them.

Betta fish eating cherry shrimp. Betta eating shrimp food i recently moved 5 of my shrimp from my 15gal to my 5gal with my betta because i was afraid they weren t getting enough food the big shrimp and the dwarf gourami kept chasing them away but my betta keeps eatong their food too. A cherry shrimps size varies. Bettas need a temperature between 76 82 f and a ph level as close to 7 as possible.

A krib would eat the cherries. A female cherry shrimp will grow to 1 inch but the males will be a lot smaller. As for the betta probally wouldn t enough plants rock caves etc for the shrimp to retreat to should be fine.

And luckily cherry shrimp and bettas love the same conditions. Cherry shrimp arnt bigger than ghost shrimp. Discussion pearl is generally tolerant of the shrimps in his tank but when i drop in food for the shrimps he shoves the shrimp out of the way with his nose and eats the food.

Because cherry shrimp are smaller you can normally put them in a smaller tank albeit with less of them. How do i stop my betta from eating the shrimp s food. Unfortunately the cherry shrimps flashy colors can attract your betta s attention which could provoke an attack.

In fact the cherry shrimp will be happy to mostly feed of the remnants of food and other scraps that are leftover from when the betta feeds and then falls to the bottom of the tank. If you only want 10 shrimp and a betta then a 5 gallon tank is a great choice.