filter feeders

[toehead11183]

i'm looking for some tank safe filter feeders. i've tried snails, shrimp and plants but the fish eat them. i need something that can handle 8.2 pH and african cichlids

 

[canucksfan1]

all i can say is good luck with that i don't know any so i am not too much help

 

[webdesigner]

i'm looking for some tank safe filter feeders. i've tried snails, shrimp and plants but the fish eat them. i need something that can handle 8.2 pH and african cichlids

Atya gabonensis can grow up to 15 cm and allegedly tolerates a wide Ph range. http://www.petshrimp.com/africanfiltershrimp.html

 

[Oddball]

Atya gabonensis can grow up to 15 cm and allegedly tolerates a wide Ph range. http://www.petshrimp.com/africanfiltershrimp.html

But the Atya will become cichlid food when it molts.

The only alkaline filter feeder I can think of, that will be safe with african cichlids, is the african arowana (Heterotis niloticus).

 

[webdesigner]

True and if you actually happen to come across an Atya PM me.

 

[smpage]

Maybe it's just dumb luck but I have an Atyopsis moluccensis (your average "bamboo shrimp") in my cichlid/bichir tank and nobody touches him. never had a problem during his moulting either. I know, crazy.

 

[webdesigner]

Maybe it's just dumb luck but I have an Atyopsis moluccensis (your average "bamboo shrimp") in my cichlid/bichir tank and nobody touches him. never had a problem during his moulting either. I know, crazy.

That's utterly fascinating. Can we get a pic?

 

[Bsixxx]

african arowana!!