cherry vs amano shrimp

[Balloon Fish]

what eats more algae amano or cherry shrimp?? i might order some cherry shrimp but i am still deciding, spent most of my money on ferts lately but paycheck is in a few days also are they the same size as a ghost shrimp? or smaller? and are they lazy at eating algae?

 

[derajer]

Cherry shrimp eat about the same amount of algae as Amano, but Cherry shrimp eat a wider variety of algae.

Cherry and Amano shrimp don't get quite as big as most ghost shrimp, but they are usually purchased at the same size in my experience.

 

[NoDeltaH2O]

I believe Amanos get significantly larger than ghost shrimp. I have a dozen or so Amanos and they seem to moult more often than do my ghost shrimp, which are also smaller.

 

[twoluvcats]

here's a great page that goes over the differences in freshwater shrimp http://www.azgardens.com/shrimpfactory.php and they say cherry shrimp are about half the size of amanos.

 

[Balloon Fish]

k thx a lot guys, i might go ahead and get the cherry shrimp depending on what my mom says but most likely i will, thx again