Clown loaches and Amano shrimps

Gill Passman wrote:

Next question then...how to catch 4(?) Amano shrimps in a tank with
multiple hiding places? There were 4 but I've only seen 2 recently.

The 6 foot tank seems to be rapidly becoming a Rainbow tank (plus
cories, 4 Neons and 2 DGs)....the other tank is in the same room near
the dining table.....

Gill

Try a soda bottle trap baited with any food you've see the shrimp
eating. Mine relish shrimp pellets (rather ironic).
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/fish_trap.php

You may have to release a few fish.

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Altum wrote:
Gill Passman wrote:

Next question then...how to catch 4(?) Amano shrimps in a tank with
multiple hiding places? There were 4 but I've only seen 2 recently.

The 6 foot tank seems to be rapidly becoming a Rainbow tank (plus
cories, 4 Neons and 2 DGs)....the other tank is in the same room near
the dining table.....

Gill


Try a soda bottle trap baited with any food you've see the shrimp
eating. Mine relish shrimp pellets (rather ironic).
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/fish_trap.php

You may have to release a few fish.


Looks like a neat trick...only problem is I've never seen my shrimps eat
anything other than some algae on the back of the tank....I suppose that
they might venture in there on their own......my money would be on the
Pandas falling for it first :-)


Gill

Gill Passman wrote:
Altum wrote:

Try a soda bottle trap baited with any food you've see the shrimp
eating. Mine relish shrimp pellets (rather ironic).
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/fish_trap.php

You may have to release a few fish.


Looks like a neat trick...only problem is I've never seen my shrimps eat
anything other than some algae on the back of the tank....I suppose that
they might venture in there on their own......my money would be on the
Pandas falling for it first :-)

Hmmmm... I wonder if you could bait it with algae scrapings from the
back of the tank? Maybe if you scraped the glass clean and put the
scrapings in the jug they'd have to go in to find something to eat?
Maybe baiting with algae wafers or flakes is a bit less hare-brained.

My Amanos snag flake food when I feed the fish. Before the angel got
big, they wold swim upside-down on the surface to snag a bit of flake.
It was fun to watch.

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