Ok shrimp masters, I have a small setup for my RCS, and I'd like to upgrade it to a planted 10g. Currently they're in a planted with flourite and Aquasoil mix. It's hard for me to clean this tank because I'm constantly getting new babies and I'm sure I've already had my share of casualties from sucking them into the airline tubing I use.
So, to make a short question way too long...How would you propose I move the inhabitants out of this tank and into the new one? Should I try to siphon out the babies into a bucket and place them in the new tank? Then just net the adults? I find them extremely difficult to catch! What about stragglers in the substrate? Will the siphon harm them?
Sorry if this is such a ridiculous question, but I've never transferred them from one tank to another and I'm so nervous to start that I just keep putting it off. :redface:
So, to make a short question way too long...How would you propose I move the inhabitants out of this tank and into the new one? Should I try to siphon out the babies into a bucket and place them in the new tank? Then just net the adults? I find them extremely difficult to catch! What about stragglers in the substrate? Will the siphon harm them?
Sorry if this is such a ridiculous question, but I've never transferred them from one tank to another and I'm so nervous to start that I just keep putting it off. :redface: