shrimp in fry tank?

[MyraVan]

I have a little 5 gallon tank on my desk that has 2 snails (1 apple snail & 1 nerite algae-eating snail), 3 white cloud mountain minnows, alot of baby white cloud mountain minnows, and alot of thread algae. I am leaving the parents in the with fry, since they don't seem to be bothering them. The fry dart all around, and the parents ignore them, going instead for the fish food.

I would like to put a small number of small algae-eating shrimp in there, like cherry shrimp or amano shrimp, partly because they seem like really cool animals, and partly because they would eat up some of the algae. I don't want them to eat all of the algae since I think it might be providing some food for micro-critters that the baby fish would eat.

What you folks think of this? Should I skip them, saving all my bio-load for the critters I already have? Or would they be OK, from a bio-load point of view? Would they try to eat the baby fish or fish eggs (I guess that since the fish have spawned once, they might again)?

[Damon]

I don't see this as a problem as neither species is predatory by nature. They may eat fry that die but not live fry.

[laura]

iff you ar eplanning to keep any of the white cloud fry the shrimps would overload the system

[TANKER]

Something to consider is that most small fish species fry rely on infusoria as a food source. Infusoria is green water or free floating algae. Amano shrimp will not only eat algae growing on surfaces in your tank but also the infusoria, potentialy depriving the fry of the food they need.