Re: [GSAS-Member] In praise of the simple sponge filter-shrimp

[Shango Los <shango@shangolos.com>]

I take a small net and cut out the net and rubber band it over the intake. 
Easy. $3.

On Dec 20, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Kathy Olson wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Well we had all of Markus' cherry red shrimp colony disappear in his new neat 
> 5 gallon tank (and all of Isaak's guppy fry in his 5 gallon).
> 
> Turns out when we looked under the sponge in the aquaclear filter there were 
> 3 shrimp there, one huge one as well.  I have no idea how they made it past 
> the propellar.  Erik put a sponge over the intake.  Then today (5 days later) 
> I checked again and found another 3.....sigh, I assume they must of been in 
> the system before the intake sponge got added.
> 
> 
> Does anyone breed shrimp in a tank with an aquaclear and if so what do you 
> do???
> 
> Thanks
> Kathy
> 
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