I constantly find my cherry reds in filter cartridge and inside of the filter. Some are near adult stage.
Wilma

 

I have a spare Ehiem ecco small filer and may fill it up with shrimp and some filter media and leave it alone for 3 months. I'll let you know what happens.

 

Haha. That would be cool.:thumbsup:

 

Does anyone have on a prefilter and still find shrimp in there?

Also is this universal for all canister filters? Like Rena XP or some tom's rapids mini canister filters

 

I have found shrimps and snails in my Rena's but not in my Eheim classics. I do have prefilters on all of my intakes.

 

When I rescaped one of my tanks, I took out all of my pellia and threw it into a plastic cube container. I set this container aside next to a window. To my surprise, after 3 months have past, I found a cherry shrimp inside that container! It sat next to my window all throughout winter too. I guess it hitchhiked inside the pellia as a baby so I never noticed it until 3 months after.

In fact, it's still inside that container. Still next to the window and all. The pellia already died off and is now mush but it's still in there, eating who knows what. I haven't even opened the lid off that container yet.

Hardy shrimps ;-)

 

When I rescaped one of my tanks, I took out all of my pellia and threw it into a plastic cube container. I set this container aside next to a window. To my surprise, after 3 months have past, I found a cherry shrimp inside that container! It sat next to my window all throughout winter too. I guess it hitchhiked inside the pellia as a baby so I never noticed it until 3 months after.

In fact, it's still inside that container. Still next to the window and all. The pellia already died off and is now mush but it's still in there, eating who knows what. I haven't even opened the lid off that container yet.

Hardy shrimps ;-)

is it still there???? wow.!!!

 

I had the same thing happen but not to my shrimp. In my 2.5g i was looking at my fish.
Huh i only had 2... wait didn't i have 6 before. I thought that i just couldn't see them (funny that i have no plants in there basically) so i left it for a week then i went to clean out my filter a bit and there are my 4 fish, perfectly healthy and doing fine, in about 5mm space at the bottom of my filter.

 

I did a media change and found about 50 RCS, it's crazy they can live in there.

 

I have pre-filters on order as I'm tired of collecting so many RCS out of my filters along with the kuhli loaches I can see how the RCS get in there, but the kuhlis? Would rather see them in the tank. I find them in all sizes.

 

I just cleaned my canister filter for the first time in 6 months and I found two adult cherries in there. I have lily pipes with small slits so its impossible for adults to get sucked by the filter. i don't know about you guys, but the thought of baby shrimps getting stuck in the filter and living their lives in a dark, confined, and turbulent filter depresses the hell out of me.