Yellow Shrimp & Discus

[lazurux]

Hi everyone,

New on here and I wanted to ask if discus can live with yellow shrimp in a planted aquarium?
If not, what if I raise young discus with shrimp?
My pair had babies a month or so ago and juvies are about the size of a quarter; shrimp are about 1/2" to 1".

Thanks ahead.

~Larry

[tonytheboss1]

:bandana: Fine for now but eventually discus will see shrimp for the snacks that they are. "T"

[xxbenjamminxx]

Yes and it wont take long once they figure out how good they taste to totally decimate your shrimp population. If you value your shrimp, I would advise against it.

[Alpha Pro Breeders]

I use to feed my shrimp culls to my Discus, most would grab them before they hit the bottom. I did have one tank of breeding adults that the shrimp thrived in, guess they just never got the taste for them.

[EVhere]

I have a planted tank with a variety of shrimp and several wild discus. The discus seem to not recognize the shrimp as food and ignore them. The only close call I had was with the cherry shrimp because they look like frozen blood worms, which my discus love.

[lipadj46]

My discus ruthlessly hunt and kill any cull shrimp I toss in their tank