Will A Betta Fish Eat A Shrimp

I really recommend no one keep ghost shrimp with anything slow moving like a betta.

Will a betta fish eat a shrimp. The fish won t starve. That s a valid question and many beginners often wonder whether betta can eat cooked shrimp or not. Best top new controversial old q a.

They can go for several weeks without eating and without any harm. The first rule of fishkeeping you must be smarter than the fish. Betta fish should never eat cooked shrimp.

Nevermind just found shrimp innards. Score so far fish 1 you nothing. Betta fish will easily eat cherry shrimps especially since the latter grows to around one inch or smaller.

They re very aggressive and will attack other fish. One of these is a prawn species that can get up to several inches long. To limit this as much as possible try to buy the biggest shrimp in the shop and avoid males.

Can betta fish and shrimp live together in the same aquarium. But sometimes the fish will eat the fry of the ghost shrimp that is something that you cant prevent and will happen all the time unless the betta is removed from the tank. You can try and give your cherry shrimp the best chances of survival in a betta tank by setting up your tank in a favorable way for both fish.

Ghost shrimps are usually bigger than the mouth of the betta and in most cases the fish won t tries to hunt them. This thread is archived. Yeah so what s sold as ghost shrimp at most pet stores is actually a random collection of different shrimp species.