problem with babys

[Claudio Cabral]

Hi! I have a tank 150x40x50, with discus, red cherrys, tigers and yamato shrimps. in my tank I have external filtration, and the problem is all the shrimplets of red cherry going pulled into the filter. anyone knows a solution to protect shrimps from the canister? *sorry for my english* :embarasse

[acbaldwin]

Welcome to the forum.:)
Kensfish (google search it) has sponge prefilters that go over the intake on your canister filter. Or you can just make on yourself.

[betta_zoid87]

You can wrap the input of the cannister with a fine net or sponge.

[luenny]

Hi! I have a tank 150x40x50, with discus, red cherrys, tigers and yamato shrimps. in my tank I have external filtration, and the problem is all the shrimplets of red cherry going pulled into the filter. anyone knows a solution to protect shrimps from the canister? *sorry for my english* :embarasse

Are you sure your discus and yamatoes won't eat your shrimplets?

[Claudio Cabral]

I only have seen 1 discus eating 1 RCS, and the shrimp was already dead! Otherwise they don't care about the shrimps, even in lunch time!

[diki]

Personally, yamotos would eat shrimplets usually unless they are dead. However, I think discus do eat shrimps and shrimplets. Maybe you are just lucky for now. Hope they don't go crazy and start feasting on your shrimps. How big is your discus?

[luenny]

I heard that once your shrimps molt and when their shell is still soft, they're very vulnerable to Discus attack. My friend bought 50 pcs of cherries for his discus tank. A few months later, none left.

[Claudio Cabral]

My discus are big enough to eat RCS with 2 bites! but they don't care about the shrimps. sometimes people join neons and the discus don't care about them too! it happens! :cool: