Bumblebee and shrimp!

Hi Folks,

Right Im kinda asking a question I already know the answer to but would be very interested still in knowing what people think.
Right I picked up 4 freshwater bumblebee goby’s yesterday. Im told they are freshwater so all should be fine.(Ive tried the brackish ones before and they are a great fish).
Now I have a fluval edge tank that Ive up and running for well over a year and a half and it consists of lots of cherry shrimp . I also keep 3 small endlers in the tank. The cheeries I keep there have a nice bogwood covered with java fern for them to hide in. The amount of shrimplets there is lost on me as all I see is tiny white dots zipping by!! Every month or so I remove about 10+ good adult sized cheeries to put into the other tank and allow the circle of life to start again in the edge. Now Im toying with the idea of putting in the bumblebee gobys into the edge tank. I know they will go for the cheeries,but Im thinking I may already have sufficient numbers for a nice side by side life to exist. Im sure the endlers are probably already taking a few of the shrimplets too if they find them.If nothing else it may be a short term solution to the gobys being in there,albeit its not ideal given the size of the edge.

So firstly, will the tank continue to have enough shrimp to sustain this co-relationship or will the bumblebee just devour my stock of cheeries. I can move the endlers on no problem to another tank if needs be.That wont be an issue.
I will be feeding the bumblee’s some bloodworm also,so they should be overly reliant on the cheeries and again I have enough adults in there to hopefully hold their own.

What do people think,will my cheeries just be wiped or can they replace enough times over to keep the circle going and secondly, will the bumblebees have sufficient room in the fluval edge as I know they can be territorial and it might be too tight a space.Again even if its just short term I think I may need to do it.

Looking forward to hearing from what ye think.

Gavin

my money is on the gobies wiping out the shrimp, eating or maybe just killing them. it will be an interesting experiment though. i was not aware that there were non brackish b. bee gobies, are they a different species or just acclimated to freshwater?

There are two type alright,but usually those found in pet shops are brackish..my experience of the brackish ones are that they will survive fine for a while,but eventually all mine died after perhaps 6 months or a year. Feeding is difficult with them but they devour anything live and there favourite was bloodworm. Ive them put into the tank now,already saw two shrimplets devoured...my hope is they leave the bigger lads alone,which i think they will as they are slow enough to move / hop around.
Fantastic fish which Ive been meaning to get for a while but Cork is crap for at the moment so availed of my trip to Croker y/day go to Seahorses as well!! Got some nice hatchetfish also settled in nicely to another tank.

Gavin

At least your trip to Dublin wasn't total waste poor cork