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JohnH Shrimp Breeder

JohnH

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Do people keep lids on their shrimp tanks or do they leave them off?

I keep lids on mine and from the amount of dust that collect on the lids, I would want to keep that out of the tank. I do see photos of other's tanks and they have lids off.

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durro68 Shrimp Breeder

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I keep lids on all mine .... but they are not for "display". And it keeps my lovely new nerite snails (thanks Bob) from going walk-about.

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Squiggle Shrimp Guru

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I'm a lids on guy, had a gorgeous shrimp climb out the other day, needless to say I'm still gutted, also keeping wild Bettas & those buggers can jump higher than Steve Hooker, in the wild they jump from puddle to puddle :encouragement:

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zacsbee89 Shrimp Keeper

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lids off, helps with evaporative cooling up here! lids on 30 degree tank temp, lids off 27 degrees...although Daily topups are required.

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On my little 20 litre cubes I have found on hot days with the ceiling fan going they are cooler by a couple of degrees. Have tried this by having lids on 1 and not on the other and that is the difference. So if it's a hot day light and lids off on mine.

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Heavyd Shrimp Master

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Lids mostly on for mine. I dont like dust settling in the tank and kitchen fumes etc having an easier time diffusing into the water.

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Neo-shrimp Shrimp Breeder

Neo-shrimp

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Lid on..I have two little girls...One like to put her hands in & do some extra feeding when I'm not @ home...Therefore lid on for me...

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Baccus Shrimp Master

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All bar one of my tanks is lids off and even the tank that has a lid the feeder flap is usually left open. Opened toped definantly does help keep the tank cooler in our heat, and even my typhus shrimp and nerite snails have not gone wondering off without lids.

Lids off is also appreiated by my cat Shiya

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Making his way to his daily watering hole......just not too sure how the fish feel about his intrusion, although the endlers seem to think he is feeding them and all swarm about his mouth, paws or tail depending on what he has in the water.

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KiwiBigD Shrimp Breeder

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Generally lids off if possible, especially come summer. But of late I've found a couple of spiders moving in and setting up in locations I really

don't like so current on until I can give the place a really good vacuum.

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torface Shrimp Master

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Lids on for me at the moment, only because the evapouration was craaazzzy without them.

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