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Mine are unheated as well (room temperature). If yours are all the same size, they are still probably juveniles. They males will typically stay under an inch, but once you see the females get a little wider, taller and overall bigger, they will probably be ready.

How many do you have and how long have you had them? I have about a dozen of them in a heavily planted 20g, and the males are barely an inch. The females are larger in every way, but still less than about 1.5". As for breeding, I find them no different than any other cory. A cool water change...

Not my phrase, but I have heard them referred to as 'grandma shrimp'. I've had blues in an unheated 29g for about 2 years now, and I have a couple of large ones. Almost black, always female, but no longer carrying any eggs.

I gently rolled a few off of the glass and stuck them to the walls of a pygmy (habrosus) cory tank. The 55g is an all catfish tank, with otos, a single clown pleco, and a motley assortment of corys, aeneus (green and glo), habrosus, and a couple of super cute Sterbai babies from my 29g!

I was starting to see some bottom debris in a 55g with sponge filtration only, so I added a canister filter to increase the flow. The otos seem to enjoy it, and the corys responded by depositing some eggs on the wall that has the strongest current.

If the environment is good and they are otherwise healthy, thin shells indicate lack of calcium or acidic water. The shrimp won't harm a live snail, but will certainly snack on the decaying flesh and nibble on the shell if it needs calcium. Dead snails stink, and can foul your water, but after...

Time to thin the herd a bit- these shots are from today. USPS Priority is $10-$15 depending on zip code.

Unintentional home cory breeder here- mine have been busy! What state do you happen to be in? Close to NH? I would give you some. :-)

Like many, I suffer from MTS. So I repurposed one for the spring.

I think corys, otos and plants are a great combo for shrimp tanks. No one fights, no one tries to eat another, life is peaceful and good.

It is mostly due to dominant/recessive genes. Many of us have a 'skittles' tank where we re-home not so vibrant reds or blues that were taken from other tanks. The first generation, particularly, can be very colorful, and every now and then you do get one that is close to purple. That is a...

Sorry for the delay- I am not a believer in heat alone to treat ich. I can't really guess as to how bad it is, but if you have malachite green on hand, I would probably add a smaller dose of that today, rather than wait. However, it has been 48 hours since your initial post. Are the symptoms...

The most effective treatment seems to be malachite green, so a product with that would be best. Ich-X claims it has a 'milder' version of malachite green, which is supposed to be safer for corys, snails and inverts, but there are many opinions as you are discovering! If your products have...

I have both glo-fish and bronze versions of cory and I have not encountered the head darkening that you've seen. The lack of search results also indicates that it might be sort of a false flag, symptoms wise. Ich does seem to start in the gills, perhaps the irritation is causing the color...

You’ll quickly learn that there are some very vocal glo-fish haters in this forum! Hopefully you are not chased away by silly rhetoric like ‘glo-diseases’, and can ignore those people. You noted that the white skirt tetra has white spots. That is a good place to start. The corys seem to have...

Adding more pandas will certainly help, and corys like variety in their diet. Try some tiny sinking pellets, occasionally sprinkle a small amount of high quality flake food (that they can spend some time hunting for), and also break the wafer into a couple of pieces and drop it in different...

I too, love this idea, and have traded shrimp a couple of times with others on this forum. I don't do much shipping right now (too cold where I live), but I'll be watching this thread for sure!

It sounds like you are off to a good start! They will consume what is left of the egg for a couple of days, which should be good until your foods arrive. It won't hurt to add a bit of crushed or powdered flakes to the basket. You can certainly grow them out in the 5g, but I would start it now...

I tend to skip the sad betta in a cup section of my LFS. We all have our likes and dislikes in this hobby. Thanks! I’ve learned from this forum and have successfully gently rolled off cory eggs and moved them to a grow out tank, otherwise the parents seemed to eat them. Here in the US, the...

A new year, and possibly a new generation? I couldn't find much info via search, but these should be viable eggs from what I've read. Does anyone have any experience with accidental glo-fish reproduction?