Pet Shrimp

Shrimp are great pets in the community tank or a species only tank. In a community tank not only will they look great but they'll clean up your tank, eating leftovers and cleaning your plants. In a species only tank you can breed the majority of shrimp pretty easy. They come in many different colours and sizes. Red cherry shrimp are great pets and look awesome in the aquarium.

An example of a Red Cherry Shrimp

 Or if red doesn't take to your liking why not have some green midget shrimp?

An example of a Green Midget shrimp.

Or even blue shrimp?

An example of a blue coloured shrimp.

Although shrimp do tend to 'ping' off surfaces in the tank so you'll want to have a secure lid for your tank or else you'll find them on your floor. They don't have much bio load either so you can keep quite a lot of them, but they do need a filter and a heater (depends on where they are from). Do you remember the saltwater shrimp from finding nemo? Well pretty much all freshwater, saltwater and brackish water shrimps are clean freaks! They eat pretty much anything but if you have a filter feeder you'll want to take a closer look into feeding them. If you have any questions please feel free to comment below and I will reply asap.