GraemeVW
Member
Pretty basic shrimp keeping questions!
I got my first freshwater shrimp this week. One of the females was berried, and I can see eyes in the eggs!
I wasn't very prepared for this so rather than put them in my main tank, they are in my quarantine tank.
However, I've already had to retrieve one sub adult shrimp from the eheim internal filter.
The main tank has a jbl e1502.
So, 2 part question, how can I stop even baby shrimp from being drawn into the jbl canister filter (are the stainless mesh guards fine enough?) Without risking flow restriction with it getting blocked. I have alot of cabomba in that tank so small bits of plant are a regular floating hazzard.
Secondly, I doubt there is much I can do for the eheim internal filter, so I guess I'll have to keep fishing the shrimp out. I imagine the babies will spend alot of time in it! Will they be ok? It's been running for years so I guess there will be a fair bit of food for them in there, and as long as they don't make it through the foam to the impeller, they should be pretty safe right?
That's assuming the neons and the corys don't eat the babies!
Thanks.
I got my first freshwater shrimp this week. One of the females was berried, and I can see eyes in the eggs!
I wasn't very prepared for this so rather than put them in my main tank, they are in my quarantine tank.
However, I've already had to retrieve one sub adult shrimp from the eheim internal filter.
The main tank has a jbl e1502.
So, 2 part question, how can I stop even baby shrimp from being drawn into the jbl canister filter (are the stainless mesh guards fine enough?) Without risking flow restriction with it getting blocked. I have alot of cabomba in that tank so small bits of plant are a regular floating hazzard.
Secondly, I doubt there is much I can do for the eheim internal filter, so I guess I'll have to keep fishing the shrimp out. I imagine the babies will spend alot of time in it! Will they be ok? It's been running for years so I guess there will be a fair bit of food for them in there, and as long as they don't make it through the foam to the impeller, they should be pretty safe right?
That's assuming the neons and the corys don't eat the babies!
Thanks.