Shrimpies are awesome! I have 12 blue dream neocaradina davidii, which are the same species as yours, only blue. If you want to get the algae off the glass in your tank without a lot of scraping, I'd like to recommend hillstream loaches over otocinclus or Asian algae eaters. They are a lot of fun and they are ravenous about algae. The right snails can help too (stay away from Ramshorn snails and Thai trumpet snails unless you want to be over run. One other algae eater you might want to consider are pompom crabs. These tiny crabs are just a hoot to watch. They get up to all sorts of fun stuff. I have one that uses the bubbler in the tank as an elevator which he rides up, then he jumps from the bubble stream, spreading all his legs out, and parachutes to the bottom of the tank making a soft landing. It would be funny enough if he did it only once, but he'll do it repeatedly until he gets board of it and goes off to find another adventure. I never knew that a crab could be so fun or so funny. There is only so much that you can cram into a 10 gallon aquarium, but one hillstream loach and one pompom crab would not be pushing it at all. Keep up the great work! Your tank is really lookin' good, and your getting on top of the problems before they become big problems. That's awesome! That's great fish husbandry. It looks like you might be getting more tanks going. I feel for you. Once you get into fish keeping, it becomes an addiction. If you do put together another tank, I recommend that you use all live plants. You'll be amazed at how much they do for the water quality, and therefore, your fish. Aquascaping is fun, and it does away with a lot of water maintenance. You'll need to give some of the faster growing plants a trim now and then, but you can use the trimmings in other tanks, or sometimes you can sell them to you local fish store in exchange for some fish food, or some supplies like that.
@@Specter6jcar You're very welcome. Putting lots of live aquarium plants will help also. They suck up all the nitrogen and ammonia that comes from the fish poo, and turn it into cellulose and oxygen. Fish and shrimp love playing in the plants too. and if you have a lot of really thick bushy stem plants, it will often cause many species to spawn, then gives the babies a place to hide as they grow up. I just can't say enough good about live plants in an aquarium.
