Protect shrimps and nano fishes from getting sucked by surface skimmer

[maverick786us]

How do you protect your shrimps and nano fishes from being sucked by the surface skimmers? The surface skimmers that comes with stainless steel lily pipes are big enough to suck these little creatures to their apparent death.

 

[hypnogogia]

Have you tried searching the forum as this topic has been discussed frequently?

 

[maverick786us]

Have you tried searching the forum as this topic has been discussed frequently?

Post in thread 'Shrimp guard for Superfish HOB skimmer'

21 Oct 2024

Good advice. I used to run a dedicated skimmer in my shrimp tank back in the day. I used lemon wraps around the in-take to prevent the shrimps getting caught. The surface skimmer was there mainly to reduce surface film and help a bit with surface agitation. I removed the skimmer long time ago as I just have too much frogbit and duckweed - the surface skimmer just got clogged up all the time 🙂

With my Tidal 35 HOBs - with a build-in surface skimmer that’s doing absolutely nothing as far as I can tell but still is a possible shrimp trap - I added a piece of very coarse sponge on the...

• MichaelJ

Improvising, fine, but is there some ready made product that is specifically designed for this job