Moving/upgrading my tank this weekend.

[Chin_Lee]

Originally Posted by zoomin

Interesting.

When i bought the Xenia it was tied to an oyster shell with string. It wandered off of that oyster shell and now, 2 months since I bought it, it's about 20x the size - basically taking over.

Any tips on catching shrimp?

get a 500ml plastic pop bottle, cut off the top part so so you can invert it and create a "funnel". staple the funnel in place and attach a long string somewhere around the staples. Put some pellet fish food (formula 1/2) in bottle, turn off all powerheads so the "smell" will be the most concentrated around the bottle. fill with tank water and let it sink to bottom of tank. use the string to guide it down to the bottom of the tank and to pull bottle out later. TURN OFF THE LIGHTS in tank and your room. Wait about 5 minutes and the shrimp will be inside the bottle.
I used to sit and watch the shrimp for hours waiting for it to go into the bottle. Then when I turned off the lights, it was in the bottle within 2 minutes.