Compatible fish, with shrimp?

[HelloUnderwaterWorld]

Hi, thanks in advance for helping! I have a heavily planted 2 gallon nano tank with one ghost shrimp. I'm looking for tank mates, preferably solitary becuase I don't have the room for fish fry:). The tank is heavily planted, with 3 Marimo moss balls, 6 small water wisteria, and some natural decor and a cave. Ideas please? 

Tank specs are:

Tempurature- a constant 69

pH-  constant 7.8

ammonia/nitrites/all that jazz- 0ppm except for nitrates, which is about 15-20ppm usually

The tank has undergone the nitrogen cycle. 

Thanks!

This is a picture of the tank, to get a sense of dimensions. The flashy gravel was chosen by the youngest child in our family. 

[HelloUnderwaterWorld]

here's the picture

 

[Jynn]

Most people will say nothing is 100% shrimp safe but ottocinclus.

 

If you don't mind a few shrimplets getting eaten tho, and youve got goood cover for the babies, most of the microrasboras are OK.   I keep chili rasboras in one of my tanks and still have a great shrimplet survival rate, but I have seen them hunting newborns.  The fish are quite a bit smaller than full grown shrimp so pose them no threat.

 

Ive also had pygmy hatchets in shrimp tanks and never saw them go near the shrimp, since they are surface feeders and tend to stick to the top of the tank.

 

 

 

That said.. a 2g tank really isnt big enough to house any type of fish happily.    Id stick to just your shrimp, or upgrade to something a bit larger.

[aquariumlover10]

only thing I know of that will fit in a 2 gallon tank is least killifish, they are technical livebearers so you will want all males or all females.

they stay very small but will eat shrimp fry, adding Java moss and/or hornwort will greatly reduce this.

what species of shrimp do you have?

[HelloUnderwaterWorld]

Ghost shrimp. Mine is not yet fully grown, so I'd wait a while until I get a fish. 

[aquariumlover10]

ok, ghost shrimp dont breed very easily as they have a larval stage which means you have to supplement the fry with green water.

ghost shrimp are also bigger so alot more fish don't mess with them, but I still wouldn't get anything but 3 male least killifish and some trumpet snails.

 

[HelloUnderwaterWorld]

I wasn't really planning on raising the shrimplets though. 

[Jynn]

2 gallons is REALLY small for fish.    Shrimp have very little bioload, so its fine for shrimp. If you want fish too, I would really recommend getting a bigger tank.      Something as small as 2g is tough to keep stable and habitable for fish.    you would really open up your options, and reduce maintenance a lot if you went up to even 5.5g

 

3 least killis in 2g honestly seems overstocked to me.

[jem_xxiii]

As everyone has already stated, 2 gallons is quite small for fish. Unlike shrimp, fish need some space to move around and do their thing. I would honestly refrain from putting fish in the tank. 

[Dluxeshrimps]

you can get a Danionella. they  are really small about 11mm

[tariqkieran]

I've got a 15 gallon that houses tangerine tigers, blue neocaridinas, an amano, and currently a few threadfin rainbowfish. It's a pretty heavily planted tank. The thread fins are pretty tiny and supposedly their throats are even smaller than their tiny mouths, so I'm hoping it should be ok. Anyone else have experience with this type of combo? 

 

You can sort-of see them here in this blurry iPhone video screen shot:

[Crackhead Johny]

Oto of the day.

Not sure if these otos are "shrimp safe"
These are Giant Otos which apparently get to be 4-6" long