Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Shrimp

[wendyallyn]

Hello!  I'm currently cycling a 14 gallon tank to house about a dozen Guppy fry as well as some VERY baby Red Cherry Shrimp.  I'm very concerned with them getting sucked up in the intake tube and was wondering what would be the best thing to use to cover the intake tube that would be strong enough to hold up under water as well as allow flow though enough as to not inhibit the performance of the filter and strain the motor.

Any ideas?

[MJY6087]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

i believe a sponge would work best, there was a thread on here not too long ago by a shrimpkeeper detailing this

[Hanson77]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

I used a fairly open cell piece of foam over the intake on my filter.  I think it was like the 20ppm foam from a Rena XP filter.  I cut a piece the width that I needed and then too a razor blade, but a knife would work and just sliced the middle so that it would slide over the intake.  Pending the size of your intake, you could just take a piece and push it up into the intake tube itself.

[armthehomeless]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

I have successfully used prefilter media wrapped around the intake tube and sponges in fry/shrimp tanks.

[rrocket2002]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

Pantyhose.

[mahoro]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

sponge, panty hose, filter sock all works really good...

[wvgdiscus]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

For a quick fix a paper towel works well too.

[mahoro]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

bounty would work over night, but no longer then 8 hours...

[Zulaab]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

I have used a media bag and covered the in take.. that has helped not getting guppy fry into my HOB filters....
I found out that 4 of them had made it into the HOB, when I emptied out my 10g tank of fish and then poured the filter water into the tank so I could take the filter to the sink and clean it.  4 babies fell out and then I start to worry more where in there.. there wasnt.  (btw all live too)

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

Coarse filter sponge have always worked for me.....or you could just net the shrimp out when doing filter maintenance....always found them there regardless.

[mahoro]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

yeah, my canister is all covered up, but when i do my monthly cleaning of the filter, i always found anywhere from 20 - 30 rcs...

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Best Way t/Cover Intake Tube Set Up for Fry/VERY Baby Sh

Once I found a batch or CRS and Celestial fry....