Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

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Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

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Hi everyone,

I have a question about dwarf puffers/pea puffers and potential shrimp tank-mates. I see posts online that mention Amano/ghost shrimp as being compatible with puffers.

ARE shrimp compatible with puffers? We have some big bamboo shrimp in our community tank (big is a relative term, they are about 1.5-2 inches long) and I was wondering if they would do ok with our pea puffers.

Our 3 puffers live in a 20 G tank with 4 oto cats and a bunch of pond snails. The tank is planted with live plants and lots of places to hide.

We were debating getting ghost shrimp but are now thinking of letting one or two of our bamboo shrimp 'visit' the puffer tank.

Can anyone share experiences of puffers and shrimp, and how they turned out?

Thank you all ^_^
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Re: Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

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I have amanos with mine and they have been fine. Fine meaning, the puffers still try to nip at them but the amanos are good at sticking up for themselves. I'm not familiar with ghost shrimp, the size sounds about right but if they are timid shrimp then I wouldn't risk it.
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Re: Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

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The ghost Shrimps will be competing will your dp for snails and they are much better hunters than dp. They are also aggressive and will snatch food. Bamboo are too timid and slow. Dps will probably nip at them constantly.
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Re: Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

Post by hadla »

Yeah I'd think the dps would peck at the bamboo shrimps feeding fans

I've always had Amanos with mine and have not had any problems
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My Puffers: 3 pea puffers/dwarf puffers in a 20 G freshwater planted tank
29 G community tank with plecos, bamboo shrimp, khuli loaches, swordtails, neon tetras and apple snails
Location (country): Toronto, Canada
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Re: Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

Post by TOPuffers »

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your DP and shrimp stories! We will get a couple of Amano shrimp for our puffer tank.

Our bamboo shrimp are lovers, not fighters - they are not likely to do more than run and hide rather than defend themselves :)
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Re: Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

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I'd keep an eye on the shrimp, my dwarf puffers successfully rip the legs and claws off of shrimp a lot bigger than them.
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My Puffers: 3 pea puffers/dwarf puffers in a 20 G freshwater planted tank
29 G community tank with plecos, bamboo shrimp, khuli loaches, swordtails, neon tetras and apple snails
Location (country): Toronto, Canada
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Re: Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

Post by TOPuffers »

Shrimp update - we added 3 Amano shrimp to our pea puffer tank 3 days ago and so far, everyone is getting along. No nipping, and the shrimp seem to be comfy roaming around and filtering on plants, drift wood, and rocks :)
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Re: Dwarf Puffers & Bamboo Shrimp?

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TOPuffers wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:21 pm Hi everyone,

I have a question about dwarf bamboo puffers/pea puffers and potential shrimp tank-mates. I see posts online that mention Amano/ghost shrimp as being compatible with puffers.

ARE shrimp compatible with puffers? We have some big dwarf bamboo shrimp in our community tank (big is a relative term, they are about 1.5-2 inches long) and I was wondering if they would do ok with our pea puffers.

Our 3 puffers live in a 20 G tank with 4 oto cats and a bunch of pond snails. The tank is planted with live plants and lots of places to hide.

We were debating getting ghost shrimp but are now thinking of letting one or two of our dwarf bamboo shrimp 'visit' the puffer tank.

Can anyone share experiences of puffers and shrimp, and how they turned out?

Thank you all ^_^
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