Shrimp Convert

[Cazgar]

Maybe best just to leave things be & see what I get, if anything

 

[lloyd]

If you have a nice thick grove of pants (java moss is great) the shrimplets will have no trouble hiding until they are bigger and still find enough food. I have not had my Khuli loaches or Pakastani loaches show the slightest bit of interest in the shrimp, my fighters eat the odd small one and I have seen the sparkling gouramis try eating ones too big for them . All my cory's are fine with the shrimp and even the guppies don't seem to eat them into extinction. The only fish I have that does eat shrimp consistantly are the gudgeons. Oh and the goldfish in the pond would too if I happened to put any shrimp in with them.

Thats strange my kuhlis quite often can be seen darting around afer them. my betta imbeelis spend most their time hunting out the babys but they are wild so thats probably why

 

[Baccus]

, maybe my Khuli's are just to well fed to bother with quick moving shrimp , If my Khuli's where eating the shrimp I would have expected the population in that tank with them to have decreased significantly, there are at least 2 black Khuli's (really hard to come by here) and 8 or 9 stripped Khulis.

 

[Cazgar]

Redid my tank today, replaced the gravel with sand.
Looks a bit bare yet, will have to get a few more plants I think
Managed to get a half decent pic of the shrimp

 

[Baccus]

Looking good, If you really want to get the shrimp to hang out near the front of the tank, you could get s small piece of timber and tie moss on to it, the shrimp love cleaning the moss so it will keep them out in the open for longer.

 

[Cazgar]

Thank you, I do have some spare moss & my Lfs has some really cheap Mopani wood in at the moment, so I could get a small a piece of that

 

[Baccus]

The mopani wood is great once it sinks, so dense and holds the moss down nicely. I made a moss wall out of an undergravel filter for one of my tanks. Basically I just sewed the moss on to the top side of the grate and also tied on some Java fern and then put a couple of spare heater suction caps on the pegs on the back so I could stick it to the wall of the tank. The shrimp love it and my cory's are always swimming through the flowing tendrils of the moss while the Borneo Suckers like hiding behind the whole set up.

 

[Cazgar]

I had a moss wall in my main tank, but it got out of hand & collected all the gunk, so I took it out.
I sewed it onto an old tank divider which worked well
I'll be using some of that for the shrimp