I just rinse and chop them. Is is really necessary to purge their guts?

I hope this response is not too late. I highly recommend 3M Colorquartz sand if you can find a local supplier. It is used to tint custom pools and concrete floors. It is ceramic coated sand and is completely inert. There are two grades: T and S. S grade is finer, that is what I am using in my cory t...

Thanks, Silurus! There are some great suggestions in that thread. I never thought of using grungy filter intakes as a food source. Like the poster in that thread, I lost a lot of my Oto fry due to (I think) lack of available food. With all of the shrimp in my tank, I have no algae at all. If and whe...

I have a breeding colony of O. affinis in a 15 gal. planted tank, along with ALOT of red cherry shrimp and tiger shrimp. I will soon be upgrading this tank to a 40 gal. breeder (36x18 inches). I would like to add a colony of O. cocama, but I am concerned that IF I can get the zebra otos to spawn, th...

The fry keep showing up!

My question now is how many can I house in my 15 gallon tank? At what size can I start moving them into my 3 ft. cory tank?

TIA

Peter

loachy_406 wrote:

LondonDragon wrote:little shrimplets

How easy are they to breed?

I have CRS in my 15 gallon with my Otos.

I can clear out 100 or more every month or so and not miss any.

This is my first post in this forum, but I am a regular contributor in another fish forum. I have four adult otocinculus in a 15 gallon tank with a lot (~300 or more) cherry shrimp. I am not sure of the species, but based on the pictures in the cat-elog they look like huaorani. Can anyone verify the...