Should I Get Amano Shrimp?

[seangee]

but now that the pump has packed up, you can't even buy the pieces to fix it, and I'm left with this huge ugly hood and trim. Oh well, will make the best of it!

Why not just attach a cheap pump and se it as is for now.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Why not just attach a cheap pump and se it as is for now.

I don't know if I have the skillset to modify another pump to fit to it!

Scratch that, I'm pretty confident I don't have the skillset to do it!

I stole a canister filter from one of my tanks, which is heavily planted and less stocked, so could cope with a hang on back filter and an internal, and put the media from the hood/box filter into the canister

 

[Essjay]

I've had 'plastic' lids for 2 small tanks. The first was a Clearseal tank years ago, which came with a thin opaque black plastic lid that I couldn't fit a light in. So I went to my local DIY shop and they sold me a plastic greenhouse pane which I cut down to size. This has never warped though it has gone hazy over the years. I was not told what it was made of.
Many years later I bought a tank for the betta I had then which had a glass lid which only covered 2/3 of the tank top. Bettas can jump so I needed something to cover it completely. I went back to the DIY shop where this time they sold me an off cut of perspex a couple of mm thick (about the same as the first 'plastic'). Within a day the centre strip was at least a couple of cm higher than the sides. I had to turn it over every day. In the end I put the glass cover back and used a strip of the first 'plastic' I had left over to cover the 1/3 without a lid.

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[PlasticGalaxy]

Bumping this since I now have my definitive answer: definitely going to be a no on the shrimp. Better to go for something I'm unfamiliar with when I'm a little more experienced.