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I've kept so many shrimp since November, but I can't seem to keep BB, King Kong, pinto etc. alive. Wine red seem to do alright, in fact they seem to be the best. About the mother, what I mean to say was the mother is not carrying the eggs any more, so there could be babies hiding somewhere in the tank

I am assuming the small half circle thing in the picture clips on the tank side to cover the big lower slots. The top slots I think are there for water to over flow into the back should the bottom ones get blocked. Putting sponge in the small plastic cover will do the job but it will be fiddly to keep removing it to clean being that all the water passes through such a small bit of sponge near the bottom of the tank, so is likely to get blocked quite quickly. I can only go by the drawing of the workings on ProShrimp website but if it were my tank (and it is the same as my small one I used to start the taiwan bee shrimp in, so this is what I did to that) and the sponge in the middle section is big enough, I would move the sponge from the middle section to the left back section (viewing from the front) as long as the sponge is pushed down far enough to cover the lower slots and high enough to cover the cut out section to let the water flow into the mid section. The sponge is then doing what it is intended to do still and almost as easy to get too (though a bit further down in the back) and the sponge is stopping the shrimps from getting into the back. The small bit of sponge in the slot cover (in the picture) can then be removed and it will be much easier to maintain as you only need to clean the big sponge in the back. OK, that is what I said I would do, however, I did and would actually do the following variation on the above......... I Got new sponge and cut it to completely fill the section behind the slots (the sponge wasn't thick enough so I just used 2 pieces), this way you know the bottom slots are definitely covered without having to even look/judge and it is much easier to remove the sponge to clean if it goes right to the top so you can pull it out. You can still cut squares out to put the ceramic rings and carbon in if you want to, though I don't use those so wouldn't bother, but you will need to make sure any cut outs don't go near where the sponge needs to be covering the slots. And, as above I wouldn't bother with the tiny piece of sponge in the slot cover as that will likely just get blocked too quickly. I am also waiting for my nitrates to drop, though the strips I use start at 10 so I wont ever actually get a 0 reading, but once it gets to the 10 I will go shopping for just a few shrimps to 'test' everything is ok first! Patience required!!!!!!! Simon