Shrimp And Filteration

[randomguysmell]

Hi, I am gonna set up a 40 gallon planted tank, with shrimp and a few neons (btw does anywone have any stocking ideas?).

The problem is on a shrimp site it recommends only using sponge filters, which aren't powerful and I am just wondering what I should do.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Your average fluval filter should be fine for a 40gal, neon tetras though can be quite fragile fish and aern't really advised for new tanks as they can't tolerate the issues with water quality very well that new tanks often get. What sort of shrimp are you interested in?

 

[demonmagus]

uuum, I know what site he's talking about and it says other filters drag the shrimp in

 

[Teelie]

I've used filters in the past with shrimp and IMO, that's false. I've never lost shrimp to the filter intake on any of my filters, all of which were standard HOBs.

 

[rdd1952]

I have shrimp in my 29 gallon and I'm running both a Whisper 30 and Whisper 20 on it. They swim right by the intake without any problem. I could see that it might be a problem if the intake were near the bottom maybe but you should be fine with most any filter you pick.

 

[soritan]

I had an internal filter on mine, a bare inch from the bottom, for several months, along side my ghost shrimp. While my betta had issues with the intake, my ghost shrimp could easily walk on the intake, when they felt like it. The filter was rated at 90 gph.

(I've since switched to a HOB style filter. At it's lowest setting, which is what it's always on, it's rated at 30 gph. I did this for my betta's sake. No one has issues with it.)

 

[andywg]

My sump pushes around 2000 litres per hour over the weir in my large tank, and the shrimp swim across the teeth of the overflow with no problems.

The most likely reason for them saying it is the shrimp died and then got sucked over the intake (as often happens with fish). They have decided that they saw nothing wrong with the anmial so the filter must be at fault.

However, if you were really worried, it is possible to place an extremely light bioload (like a few shrimps and some small fish) into a heavily planted tank with no filtration at all (as the plants prefer to remove ammonia than nitrates). However, that is a discussion for another time...

Andy