Can a ghost shrimp live peacefully with female bettas?
The thing that helps is the fact that bettas are infamous for their really really small mouths. This makes it difficult for them to devour anything tiny or just a little larger than that, for that matter. Bettas, like most fish, vary in personality. Some might take aggressively towards potential prey, but others might also think nothing of it. To be honest, I would not be concerned with them showing aggression to ghost shrimp since bettas are territorial mostly towards other bettas or lookalikes. A transparent shrimp that barely fits their mouth is probably the least of their concerns for territory competition and would be given as much notice as, say, a cory (which is often considered one of the more ideal tankmates for a betta to begin with). I would vouch for a good natural cover in case you want ghost shrimp fry or have young shrimp (thankfully, most bettas outside of wild-caught tend to be too slow to catch them anyway), but otherwise I wouldn’t sweat it. If you do have those sort
