Shrimptanks

Nice and do you do this in the parent tank or do you pull a few select pairs? I've been thinking about getting CPDs and attempting to breed them later this year xD

Congrats! What method did you use to catch/breed the eggs

Well since the eggs could have been fertilized by random other strains, there's no way to tell if the offspring is pure or just holding recessive offtraits. You could house them temporarily together then remove them to breed, but that's the only way I can tell to keep the strain pure

Oh that caribsea stuff is looking nice, been looking for a dark more uniform black substrate that isnt aquasoil for my corydoras tanks. Was looking at sevenport black diamond gravel substrate but I didn't feel like paying the shipping. Hopefully this will end up in my local petsmart or petco.

Them thriving bright frond tips 😄 If only my fissisdens would grow as fast as xmas moss xD

I'm willing to bet they're being eaten as they're being born. You also may need denser top of the tank coverage as I see most of the foliage is located on the bottom half.

You're looking for those nasty snail leeches. Those buggers gross me out especially when the babies are latching on the adult.

I have about 200 bloody mary shrimplets in a 9 gallon with my 12 chili rasbora with maybe 3 fissidens stones that didn't offer much hiding space. Mulm should be OK with pygmy corydoras, the "good stuff" in there actually provide great nutrition for pygmy babies. Perhaps more relevant to your question.........pygmy corydoras do tend to swim in the water column, so I'm not sure they'll consistently move mulm like your prototypical corydoras. Another pygmy species habrosus do tend to spend more time at the bottom of the aquarium. I feel like adult pygmy corydoras will be able to eat chili rasbora eggs though so keep that in mind. Despite having tiny mouths, those chili rasbora eggs are super tiny as well.

Fenbendazole is great unless u want to raise snails. This stuff will kill snails no matter how many water changes (well mostly the snails u want, I'm pretty sure pest pond snails eat fenbendazole and any other trash for breakfast)

I highly recommend Boraras Rasboras like Chili's or Strawberries if you must have a fish with your shrimp. Or pygmy species of corydoras. I currently have like 200 bloody mary babies running around my tank with Habrosus and Hastatus corydoras. The rasboras I moved but they weren't denting my shrimp population either.

I really like the look of CPDs, but I find them a bit skittish and they don't really school. My chili rasboras are cool but they're nano so that might not work out. I've always loved guppies and they're absolutely brazen pigs when it comes to feed and won't hide but they reproduce and take over most tanks I put them in.

Yeah as with most meds. I think the general consensus is 0.1g per 10 gallons of water is safe. Tbh ive made one of my tanks look like Pablo Escobar's wonderland and the shrimp were unaffected....sadly aquarium leeches were unaffected too. lol.

Fenbendazole is shrimp safe I'm pretty sure. I have used it in my tanks to kill hydra multiple times in the past with no impact on reproduction. But it will completely annihilate any snails and will continue doing so unless the tank is fully cleaned and restarted.

I'm not sure if you're planning on growing plants, but I have used corrugated polycarbonate to create my own lids for my 20L with no issues. Here is a simple guide on how to do it.

For the most part they are meant to be in species only tanks as they are aggressive. Some success stories here and there, but in general they are aggressive and nippy to other fish. They will probably attack the platties but will not discern between adults/fry. They will probably eat the snails, but the mystery snails may get too large to be eaten. Overall I don't think it's a good idea to add pea puffers to the ecosystem. Manual removal/donation of the fry/snails are probably the most effective method.