just curious for ideas how you change water, without sucking up shrimp???
I pump my water out, so there is no "going through the bucket" looking for them afterwards... I've not been vacuuming the bottoms, on the shrimp tanks and I have a mesh screen over my syphon... it could still suck up baby shrimp, but I put the screened draw tube right next to the front glass, ( my shrimp tanks are all 10 gallons, turned sideways so the shrimp have the whole length of the tank, to get away from the suction ) and that seems to limit my losses....
I also pump my water in, and that really stirs up the small tanks...I've been considering doing a half water change right after each other, so after stirring up the water, with the fill water, I'm doing a 2nd draw, to try to suck out more of what got stirred up??? and then to complicate, I'm now getting baby live bearers in most of my shrimp tanks, and new born Enders are pretty tiny... but then, I also expect the shrimp eat half of what gets stirred up, so eventually that will clear up???
anyway, do you guys do anything special for water changes on your shrimp tanks???
I pump my water out, so there is no "going through the bucket" looking for them afterwards... I've not been vacuuming the bottoms, on the shrimp tanks and I have a mesh screen over my syphon... it could still suck up baby shrimp, but I put the screened draw tube right next to the front glass, ( my shrimp tanks are all 10 gallons, turned sideways so the shrimp have the whole length of the tank, to get away from the suction ) and that seems to limit my losses....
I also pump my water in, and that really stirs up the small tanks...I've been considering doing a half water change right after each other, so after stirring up the water, with the fill water, I'm doing a 2nd draw, to try to suck out more of what got stirred up??? and then to complicate, I'm now getting baby live bearers in most of my shrimp tanks, and new born Enders are pretty tiny... but then, I also expect the shrimp eat half of what gets stirred up, so eventually that will clear up???
anyway, do you guys do anything special for water changes on your shrimp tanks???
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