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We haven't heard from @fishmosy in 2 years. Hope he is doing okay.

Wecome to the forum, hooefully you will fnd all the support and advice you want here? I don't knw what your large shrimps were as bamboo r fan shrimp are usualy ok with cherry shrimps. You can keep a couple of amano with cherry shrimp as well and this is usual if you have an algae problem, but you don't want too may as they are bigger than the cherry shrimp and will out compete them for food etc. You don't need to worry about amanos breeding so the numbers won't grow above what you put in the tank yourself so is easy to control the number. I keep snails in all my tanks butsome type can become an infestation quite quickly so you would probably be better with ones that can't breed in an aquarium so, agan, you can easily control the numbers? You are in a good position to have success as you are starting fresh. Shrimps are different to fish in their acceptable water parameters and I don't think your average fish/pet shop knows that in general. Cherry shrimps are fairly easy and usually you can keep them in dechlorinated tap water with an inert substrate. Do you know what your parameters are, PH, GH, KH, TDS? You will need to cycle the tank well before adding shrimps so you have some time to get everything sorted! Simon

Hello everyone! I'm pretty new to the hobby (got a 13-gallon tank for Father's Day), but fell in love with it quickly! I've received a lot of bad advice from pet stores near me, so I'm really hoping to learn from experienced keepers. Long story short, I started my tank with some amanos and cherries, and another aquarium place sold me 2 GIANT shrimp (they said they would get along with my neos just fine and not cause trouble) - and ultimately, those shrimp destroyed my population (and tank) over the course of a couple days. I've given the enormous shrimp back to the store, and I'm currently cycling a tank to re-start a pure neocaridina (and snail, perhaps) tank. My hope is to meet hopefully find some reasonably local folks that I can buy things from (plants, shrimp, moss), since my area seems to be absolutely dry. If anyone is in the Metro-Detroit (MIchigan) area, I'd love to chat!

It's actually pretty ez to keep rili shrimp . It's just pretty rare in US . I'm not sure if it's possible to import living shrimp into US . In Taiwan , red rili shrimp is like 100NT for 12 shrimp?