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Well done. It survived because you are a good fish keeper. Now to find it some friends of it's own kind.

I started emptying my nano tank today, I've been transferring my shrimp to the new set up for a few weeks now. I took out a large clump of Christmas moss that I had in there and placed it in a dish of aquarium water to see if anything was still in it. I was amazed at the number of baby shrimp that were in it. I put them in their new home and thought that was that. I went back a short while later and looked under the moss and there was another lot of babies. I've just checked for the third time and found the two smallest shrimp that I've seen in my life. I expected them to start small, but these are miniscule. I didn't want to put the moss directly into the new tank as it's also hiding a lot of snails.

Thanks Simon, I now use RO water and mineraliser. I’ve got absolutely loads of babies so it’s working well. I’ve kept Corys before and they’ve all been small so I don’t think he’ll be a threat to young shrimp apart from sharing a bit of their food. Honestly, I’m delighted that he survived as a little egg and he’s now safe. He should have a good life with his little shrimp mates.

You were lucky, that is a corydora and they are shrimp safe, not sure how big it will get but it is fine for the near future anyway! It's growing well and looks very healthy! Hope everything else is going well? Are you still using the Zerowater filter jug and remineraliser? Simon

Aww it’s very cute. 100% looking like a corydoras, so it should be a pretty safe tank mate for the shrimp. And the picture quality is fine, no worries.

Well, here's the fish in question. Sorry about the picture quality, I have a tremor and it's very hard for me to hold a camera steady. It certainly looks like a Corydora to me. It's out in the open a bit now. It's still only about an inch long but looks as though it's thriving among the shrimp. I'm assuming it'll be a safe tank mate for them. Just got to grow it on a bit now.

Maybe a newborn corydoras? That ticks all the boxes. They're an egg scattering species, so maybe there was an egg on the Subwassertang? It's super cool either way. I remember getting excited to see eggs on a crypt, when I first started fishkeeping. I thought they were fish eggs.... :( I coulda prevented my snail problems so easily then.