So I setup a ten gallon tank to breed cherry shrimp as feeders. They've been continually breeding, but it's been difficult to tell exactly how many I have because the tank is heavily planted. I have a hob filter with plants inside, and I put some polyfiber in the intake of the filter to prevent baby shrimp from getting inside. I decided to clean out the filter today, and there were like 20 extremly red baby shrimp in the hob filter. I'm assuming they've been eating the plant roots, but does anyone have any idea how they got in and survived the filter? I mean I crammed the intake with polyfiber, so the flow of the filter is slowed significantly, and I didn't think shrimp could make it through an impellor, but there were like 20 in the filter. Anyone have a better idea for preventing baby shrimp from getting in a filter?
Cherry Shrimp breeding
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Wrap floss on the outside of the intake tube not on the inside. The baby shrimp can still get sucked in if you dont have the whole thing covered
Bumping an old thread... but my solution for my AC110 was to take a foam filter insert from an AC30 (maybe AC50, can't remember) and slice it so that I could put it over the intake tube. I then used scissors and trimmed some of the corners to round them off, but it's functioned well.
I just used a sponge filter that I cut to fit over the inlet and then used an elastic to keep it in place. Works great thus far. 
My biggest gripe is when I use the gravel cleaner in either of my tanks with babies... I'm afraid I will vac some of them out.
My biggest gripe is when I use the gravel cleaner in either of my tanks with babies... I'm afraid I will vac some of them out.