Intake strainer

[Aqua sobriquet]

I received a stainless intake/outlet set today and the submerged intake had rather large slots. Easily big enough to suck in some of my juvenile shrimps. Luckily I saw a YouTube video the other day of a guy making his own intake strainers from stainless steel mesh so I ordered some. The size used in the video was #28 but I went for a finer #30 mesh and this seems pretty good. How well it works remains to be seen. I may need to make something a big bigger but it will hopefully suffice for now. The mesh is simply held in place with a couple of cable ties.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

the submerged intake had rather large slots. Easily big enough to suck in some of my juvenile shrimps. Luckily I saw a YouTube video the other day of a guy making his own intake strainers from stainless steel mesh so I ordered some

That is a smart job. My problem is that even after I'd bought that really lovely stainless steel intake I wouldn't be able to resist sticking a big ugly sponge pre-filter over it.

cheers Darrel

 

[Aqua sobriquet]

You don’t need both for juvenile shrimps but yes, a sponge is probably the only option for baby shrimp. I hate the look of the black sponge on my other tank.

I forgot to post a link for the mesh, I got it from here:

https://www.themeshcompany.com/prod...S316-Grade----Woven-Wire-Mesh--90.html#SID=60