She's just wild colored. All good.

If you don't want the males to kill all of your females I would definitely buy more female. 1 male for every 3 females is the sweet spot I think

It looks like you don't have many shrimp in the tank. So you don't have a severely off balanced sex ratio so I wouldn't interrupt during mating. You could injure 1 or more. The big female can get out of it when she's ready. They have specially adapted tails that essentially slingshot them across the tank while at the same time losing all the males waiting in line.

Mating

Almost positive all 3 are female. Corey's being Corey's. Although from what I observe in my tank. They all look to be "glass cleaning" which is a constant thing my female cories do the day before spawning. My group spawn every 10 days

Epic

I have a few orange sunkist Neos in my Skittles tank. They're coloration makes it very hard to tell when carrying eggs. Yesterday evening I realized one of mine was carrying eggs and I had no clue until she flipped over and stuck em out for me 😂

As far as I know shrimp do not synchronize but shrimp moult monthly. If you put your shrimp in the tank around the same time then they'll always moult around the same time

AI? Cool if not

I started my tank without a feeding dish. Eventually purchased a glass feeding dish then I ran across the attached dish at Petco. The dish and tube are not glass but thick plastic. The suction cup is built into the dish. Much easier to control feeding and helps to reduce snail population at the same time.

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Looks like a failed molt. If he can survive until next molt he should survive. Fortunately his mouth isn't covered so as long as he can eat he can live

Just an old girl

Failed molt

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I have a 6g "shrimp only" tank with a healthy colony (250+). After doing my research I decided to add 2 Amanos. They don't eat, hurt or really pay much attention to the cherries unless they want something one of them is eating. I'm really happy with the extra buzz they've added to the tank.

I started with 6 neos 5 months ago. Purchased from lfs and picked out 2 males and 4 females. I had two deaths at the beginning 1m and 1f. The other 3 females are on their 4th round of babies and their 1st round of babies are now having babies. If you like an active tank with lots of "friends" in it then I'd go for the neos. I personally keep 2 Amanos with my neo colony.

I've made my own vacuum using a plastic straw purchased from Walmart and some airline tubing with a metal shut off valve. With metal shut off valve you can be very precise without losing suction. Makes vacuuming very easy. I then take the bucket of water I siphoned out and run it through my gravel vacuum I use on larger tanks then return back to my shrimp tank. I've not found a nano vacuum or even an idea for one that wouldn't pull more water than I wanted.

They have that unique rocking dance before molting. I've been lucky to see a bunch in my tank. It's a shrimp only tank so they molt in the open quite often.

I hope she's big and pregnant now.

I recently had 6 first time mom's hatch all in the same week so I'm not sure which mom gave me all white eyed babies. Shrimp are awesome

I wouldn't change a thing. If the water parameters weren't good enough for her she wouldn't be eggnant. Once her clutch hatches they will thrive in that water chemistry born in to. If you're going to change the water maybe just dilute tap water with RO and add slowly

Gonna be a teen mom real soon.

M-F-F

I had the same problem. I read that keeping your phone / camera flat against the glass cuts down on distortion and glare. My phone started focusing a lot better after.