My New Shrimp And Plants!

[Ficious]

so i bought a nano tank...it took me an hour to make sure i had everything i needed and want. well now that i get home i realize i may have made a mistake? i bought an eclipse 3 gallon with biowheel filter and hood. i wanted a filter and that extra half gallon or i would have got a 2.5 gallon and bought my lil filter and such. the problem im worried about is the filter in this one touches the bottom...will my shrimp get sucked up through it? i dont think they could get through if they wanted to but against suction...it would maybe pin them down? has anyone had problems with shrimp and filters??

 

[rocknurworld2006]

so i bought a nano tank...it took me an hour to make sure i had everything i needed and want. well now that i get home i realize i may have made a mistake? i bought an eclipse 3 gallon with biowheel filter and hood. i wanted a filter and that extra half gallon or i would have got a 2.5 gallon and bought my lil filter and such. the problem im worried about is the filter in this one touches the bottom...will my shrimp get sucked up through it? i dont think they could get through if they wanted to but against suction...it would maybe pin them down? has anyone had problems with shrimp and filters??

why dont u just use a sponge filter in it

 

[Ficious]

to be honest the most i know about sponge filters are they are sponges...lol...anyway this thing came with everything i need...and actualy i just unplug the filter half the time. when i need to filter some water...ill just flip it on for a couple of hours. as for the sponge filter...i looked at something similar, and since my tank is so small i dont want any space being used up by the filter.

 

[rocknurworld2006]

to be honest the most i know about sponge filters are they are sponges...lol...anyway this thing came with everything i need...and actualy i just unplug the filter half the time. when i need to filter some water...ill just flip it on for a couple of hours. as for the sponge filter...i looked at something similar, and since my tank is so small i dont want any space being used up by the filter.

u cant just filter the water when u choose to do so with tropical fish it needs to be on 24/7 , as u will get ammonia and ur fish will die.

 

[dpcamp]

to be honest the most i know about sponge filters are they are sponges...lol...anyway this thing came with everything i need...and actualy i just unplug the filter half the time. when i need to filter some water...ill just flip it on for a couple of hours. as for the sponge filter...i looked at something similar, and since my tank is so small i dont want any space being used up by the filter.

u cant just filter the water when u choose to do so with tropical fish it needs to be on 24/7 , as u will get ammonia and ur fish will die.

yeah that filter needs to be on all the time, or you'll just kill everything. you should be fine with the filter in that tank, it's only a little 3 gallon so the filter isn't that strong. if your worried the filter is gonna suck up the shrimp maybe get a breeder net or something like that and tie it around the bottom to act as a filter for the filter?

The plants however, you're going to need some kind of co2 system for that, or they'll eventually die. unless you mean fake plants.

 

[Ficious]

i dont have any tropical fish...just shrimp and plants...as for the co2...ive heard many people say they dont use co2 and things work out fine?? idk...i guess ill see how it goes. thanks you guys

 

[dpcamp]

i dont have any tropical fish...just shrimp and plants...as for the co2...ive heard many people say they dont use co2 and things work out fine?? idk...i guess ill see how it goes. thanks you guys

I have a 5 gallon tank that i don't have co2 for, and the plants will only last a couple months if you fertilize, but they everntually die. to each there own. just giving you a heads up

edit: check out this guys tank
http/www.fishforums.net/content/Members-...o-Planted-Cube/

he has low light plants, and those will not need co2

 

[Bonsai_girl]

You need the filter on for shrimp just as much as for fish....they're sensitive to ammonia and nitrites too

What sort of shrimp have you got or are you going to get?

If you plan on breeding you'll need either a sponge filter or a very fine mesh over the filter intake or you'll lose your baby shrimp.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

put a aquaclear sponge over the intake of the filter

 

[bobross]

put a aquaclear sponge over the intake of the filter

I'm not trying to attack your response, but...

When you add the sponge over the intake tube, can't that put extra pressure on the motor and burn it out faster?

I have the same problem as the OP but I was just wondering if my question was correct.

If putting the sponge on the filter intake, how often should one change or clean it?

As far as the question of the thread... Is there any way you could just cut the intake tube down, and the put the strainer back over where you cut at?

BobRoss

 

[Mikaila31]

I have a fuval 2 in a tank full of cherry shrimp, They are fine. The young get sucked up by the filter, but it doesn't kill them. They just hang out in the filter media. When you clean it just watch out for them. I clean my filter in a bucket of tank water, any shrimp I find I just toss back into the tank. My cherries breed like mad too.

 

[Ficious]

The young get sucked up by the filter, but it doesn't kill them. They just hang out in the filter media.

probably the funniest thing ive heard all day. good job

 

[Mikaila31]

LOL , Thanks. Shrimp can be very amusing sometimes. I consider shrimplets in the filter to be safer than the ones in the tank. I mean they don't have to worry about fish eating them and the filter basically catches all their food for them. The only thing they have to watch out for is the impeller. Although very few seem to get that far into the filter. But I've seen it happen a few times, the younger the shrimp the better chances it has of making it pass the impeller . Two things happen either A) it gets killed or B) The filter spits the shrimplet out completely unharmed, but greatly disorientated and confused. Either way it doesn't seem to stop them from multiplying. I use to find between 20-40 shrimplets in my filter each week when I cleaned it. Until I made a dumb mistake and nuked the majority of my cherry colony.

Also your tank will not need co2 if you stick to very low light plants like java moss and anubais. Although co2 will make the plants grow faster, its not nesacary. If your plants start dieing I would supect it would be a problem with lighting. DIY yeast co2 is easy to make and cheap and won't be able to over dose your tank with it.