Wonder shrimp penetration.

Steven757

I'm scratching my head over how they get into the external filter... Well, as they say, I can't figure it out. The external filter, the hanging one, has a pipe for drawing water from the aquarium, a turbine, a chamber with filtering material, and an outlet like a "waterfall." And somehow they end up there. There's a grid at the intake opening with about a 2 mm gap, and I wrapped it with a fabric like "tulle" with cells up to 1 mm. The outlet is like a "waterfall," and the current is strong, carrying the fish away. Climbing through the outlet... (?) might be possible, but then there's foam that rises about 1 cm above the water level in the filter. To get into the filter through the outlet, you would have to climb up the "waterfall" and then walk about 10 cm "on dry land," meaning on the foam. It's completely unrealistic to go through the intake pipe, especially with the turbine (it even shredded small fish for me before I put the grid in). Nevertheless, every day I find 1-3 juvenile shrimp (about 1.5 cm) in the filter... They couldn't have grown there; I clean the filter. Little spies... In short, does anyone have any ideas? And their own observations?

Tracy4603

What is there to think about? It's just regular teleportation! Sorry, it slipped out... After all, it's about the waterfall...

Andrew419

I have 3 steps per dry meter. They overcome 5 cm of glass, then the screed, then down to the countertop, then another meter to the floor and about 1.5 meters along the floor. There I recently found 2 dried ones.

Andrea8397

Kamikaze shrimp... I think they just somehow jumped out when scared, for example.

William1830

Jumping 2.5 meters out of the water is impressive. It's not like grasshoppers. And again, it depends on the type of shrimp. I was talking about red-nosed ones. Cherries usually don't crawl further than the nets. Once, an Amano shrimp jumped out of the net during a transfer and ran under the cabinet like a real cockroach. We barely caught it.

Kristen1161

Thanks for the info. Have you personally seen them coming out through the joints, for example? Today there are already 4 in the filter, and up to 2 cm. It's like a sabotage group... Once they get onto dry ground, they can "wiggle" for a long time and thus manage to move through the room.

Melissa3200

No, I haven't observed it. I wouldn't have the patience for that. A friend of mine has entire colonies of cherries living in his external environment. However, I don't know how he has the entrance to the external environment arranged.

Sarah5423

Please ask if it's not too much trouble.

Cynthia

He says that earlier the intake pipe was without a pre-filter. After he found shrimp in the external filter, he installed a pre-filter, and they no longer go there.

Caleb6320

Shrimp jump... oh yes, they do! And... do they walk on wires or something?... they regularly go for a walk out of the aquarium.

Elijah7048

Well, that's it, I'm completely confused. I feel like I'm underdeveloped. After multiple shrimp penetrations in the filter, I covered it with a fine nylon mesh (about 2mm cells). Today I came and counted 6 shrimp there, one with eggs. I feel bad...

Jennifer7578

2 mm is a lot!!! People, why are you worried? It would be one thing if shrimp paste was falling out of the filter, but here everyone is alive, and there's a breeding going on. Let them live in the filter if they are so happy there. At least you always know that not all of them will be eaten.

Joshua3019

Well, yes, the cell diameter is 2 mm, while the shrimp is about 6 mm at the "waist." And if the filter stops working for an hour or two, all the shrimp are done for. And that sometimes happens.

Bridget

She has gained weight in the filter. If the filter stops, they will be able to get out without any effort.

Robin

Yeah, they got fat (ate 6 pieces in 8 hours and managed to shed a few times), every morning before work I checked the filter, there was no one there. Upon arrival, the picture by Repin "Burlaks are getting fat."

Andrew9581

Yes, if the filter is clogged for me, then the water, based on the principle of communicating vessels, flows through the pipe into the aquarium, leaving the filter dry.

Joseph8842

So, let's start over... What kind of filter is this? Where is it located? What kind of mesh is this? And why do we need to service the filter so often?

Brianna

How often to service? Not often. I wash the material about once every 3 weeks. In the first post, I wrote about the filter. External one.

Bridget

Yes, the grid is similar to the one used in "wet" batteries, with a round cell, rigid.

Derek7322

Got it! Drink Persen, it will pass...

Rachel9060

Hmm.. Maybe glycine is better?

Curtis

Maybe we should move the shrimp to a place where there is no filter?

Michele

I laugh so hard, 5 points for the sense of humor!

Denise

I will put them in a 12-liter aquarium. In general, let them swim around, as they breed well there. After a month and a half, the fry that appeared in my aquarium already produced their offspring. I also made a net from those indispensable women's tights. Now every two days, I return the diaspora from the filter to the aquarium. It takes about 5 minutes, so I've come to terms with it.

Sherri1320

I remember an old joke.... My cat had a hard time getting used to the new vacuum cleaner. Then it was fine, she got used to it..... Only during the waterfall, when the lights go out. Put a curtain before the waterfall, and you'll solve the problem.

David2398

So, I already set it up. Post No. 11. However, now I find one or two partisans in the filter each week.