Shrimp from a canister filter

[davemonkey]

I was all too ready to laugh at this...but want to make sure this is not all that uncommon.

I cleaned out a friend's canister filter for the first time in...ever...and ended up snatching up 20+ cherry shrimp. My guess is that they have spent their entire young lives living in there. So I brought them home and they seem perectly at ease on the plants...doing their normal shrimp-thing; that is, until they go to swim around the tank. They seem to have very little sense of balance...just kinda letting the water current take them haphazardly wherever it will and when they find a good spot, they snatch on and continue their grazing. It's kinda funny to watch...but has anyone else ever noticed this when taking shrimp from a canister filter?

[madehtsobi]

never noticed and id just toss mine back into the main tank.. but its not all that uncommon to find them in the canisters...i also found in mine the chili rasboras fish..lol

[troy tucker]

with no light and to much flow to swim they loss their sinces. I have never cleaned a filter with out finding them. they are just food for my fish...

[Ballinxalex]

i have found tetras in my 2217 dumb little fishes lol but i am not surpised taht shrimp get sucked in maybe get some mesh to cover up the intake so it wouldnt happen

[troy tucker]

I loss tetras in my wet/dry all the time but they always die. I started with 32 now 2. I have a colony of shrimp living in the bottom of the wet/dry. I feed the fish RCS as a treat and some how a few made there way to it. Now ever now & then one gets to close to the pump. Fish food. My shrimp tank has no pump just a spungefilter

[wesleydnunder]

I have sponge filters on my 2217 intakes and still find shrimp in them.

Mark

[armthehomeless]

Re: Shrimp from a canister filter

I have sponge filters on my 2217 intakes and still find shrimp in them.

Mark

+1

I get shrimp in my canisters even with sponges.... it is fewer that without sponges though.