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sorry, but based on My experience, I must suggest no fish for shrimp aquarium, We can not only think about is this fish will eat the shrimps ? but I suggest We must think about other too, like will the shrimp not disturbing by fish waste/ammonia, fish activity, the fish maybe vegetarian but the shrimps maybe can not understand that, they will have fear and no joy in aquarium for the shrimps, but have some fish can be important, sometime We can send few fish to shrimps aquariums if the aquariums have too many other little bugs which disturb the shrimps colony, after the task finished, We must take the fish back to their own dedicated aquarium, I think it's more naturally :)

I will try all of those things out! I use a fairly small/weak vacuum, so hopefully spooking them away will be enough.

If you're doing something like a gravel vac, try disturbing the intended area first without actually sucking any water up to scare away the shrimp. I will usually do quadrants of the tank at a time so they have 3/4 of the tank to hang out in safely. And I also painstakingly pour the waste water into a large white flatish bowl to check for babies. If it makes you feel better, I usually only get 1 baby per 2 gallons or so. Sometimes none

Thanks! I hope the barbs leave them alone too, it's very exciting to have even one or two shrimplets. They stay in the very back under leafs and in some java moss I attached to the log on that side. (I ordered "3X3" inches of Java moss and got a literal brick of the stuff, it's everywhere lol). I don't think the barbs can see them yet. Luckily for the shrimp (unlucky for the barbs) I've got some doctoring to do on some of the school, those water changes I needed to do kind of stressed out the fish. So there will be fewer fish in the tank to potentially nom on any new shrimplets.

Congrats on the shrimplets. I love the look of your tank too. My wife spotted three in my tank today. I do have 7 berried females at the moment too!!

Congrats on the shrimpets. Hopefully the Barbs will leave them alone so they can get bigger. If your cherries breed anything like mine then this will not be the only batch in the next few weeks.

Hi mate, Thanks mate. ! When we make it across to east java I will give you a hoy! I'd love to explore more of Java. I'd love to meet some "native" shrimpkeepers in indo next year when I'm there again. :-) Love n peace Will

It really depends on which species of corydoras you get, Peppered I find easy as well as Strebia but never seem to have much luck with Bronze and Panda. The main things to remember with corydoras is that..... A. They love a crowd of their own kind, mixing different species can work in that they wont fight but they wont really gel and bond as a species only school will. Eg, Best sight I ever saw was 54 young peppered corys I had bred tightly schooling and swimming laps of an old bathtub I used as a pond. B. They love and need some protein in their diet and can not be expected to just "clean up" after other fish etc.They are also very partial to certain live foods like Bloodworms, Blackworms and Mosquito wrigglers but seem happy to leave shrimp and snails alone. They will also nibble at algae wafers. C. Mixing some species of corydoras can be bad because some will readily hybridise Pandas are apparently well known for doing this. D. Corydoras come from many sections of the Amazon and surrounding rivers, some handle cooler water while some can tolerate quite warm water. It is claimed that Strebia particularly can handle the heat that Discus are often kept at but really it is pushing their endurance a tad to far in my opinion. E. Breeding usually entails ensuring you have at least 1 female and two male, condition them with lots of live foods (or fresh frozen not freeze dried) and other quality foods, then do a large water change and use water that is cooler than their tank water. This often triggers spawning, if you can do it in conjunction with a rain event coming through your region all the better. The catfish will often eat their eggs so best to rescue them and you can put the eggs in a tumbler or put them in a suspended net fry saver near the filter return. The fry are ready feeders and once they get past insy newborn (hatched) and start to look like mini copies of their parents they are just too darn cute for words. I love corys and enjoy them as much as I like many Loach species, but if I ever get the chance (ie have the room) I would love to have some Hoplo catfish, they are related distantly to corys but amazingly make bubble nests like Siamese Figthers and Gourami. Catfish and loaches I fear are as addictive as Shrimp.