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Boiling water over it from kettles. You can target it precisely and protect your anubias. Spot treat the edges of the leaves with Excel. Anubias leaves are tough. It will handle the Excel. To be safe, dilute it 50:50 with water. An old paint brush is perfect for this. Leave it for 5 minutes, than rinse off the Excel under the tap. No! don't cut the leaves.

Try putting a vegetable or bit of shrimp food inside the net. Then when the female is in the net pull her out and pop her in the breeder box and then remove other shrimp or leave one to make her feel more comfortable. -B

That had occurred to me. I would try and catch the mother shrimp first and do it very gently and not rush it and put some plant etc in the place she will be transferred to, there is a risk, but then there is also a risk once the babies are born as they will be so fragile/sensitive/small, so it is probably better to just catch the 1 adult instead of 15 virtually invisible babies? Simon

That's the way to do it. It's the least stressful for berried shrimps. Keep it in water the whole time.

If you can remove pieces of ornaments from the tank, then boil them to kill the BBA. Let the piece cool and you can put it straight back into the tank. The SAE will eat and clean up the dead BBA after that. Pieces too big to fit in a pot can be scorched with boiling water. Much, much easier than pulling it by hand.

Yeah I’m going to use a container not a net, so she stays in the water the whole time. Defs considering breeder box, only question would be can the shrimplets get thru the holes?! I’ve heard newborns are tiny. I was given the advice (by the guy who bred them before me, that I bought mine from) to not risk a breeder box, and just go for the natural ‘survival of the fittest’ method. I plan to do that. But yeah will have plants with her in the jug during that process. Thanks guys again. It takes a [shrimp forum] to raise a [shrimplet] ?

This is exactly the sort of info I was looking for! Thanks loads jayc! And yeah Blaze, it’s gonna be near-impossible to remove the driftwood, so I may as well take the chance to partially rescape and try to grow my crypts again or whatever. Thinking I’ll do all this in a couple weekends. Big plans for my tanks to come! (Also there’s a chance I might be setting up a little 5 gallon rack... still in the design process though! 3 tanks stacked sorta thing. Hoping.)

I just want to see your tank without the driftwood in it. But with the Anubias I’d personally pull it out with the driftwood and get a pair of tweezers and go crazy. Another option is cutting the edge of the leaves off where the bba is it should grow back and increase growth speed aswell. -B

By 'scorched' you mean just running boiling water over it for like 10-15 secs? Or like a couple of kettles...? I like that idea though, means I can 'spot treat' the BBA half of my driftwood, without harming the anubias. Thanks jayc! Also I have some anubias that I got as just a few leaves, now I have about 15 leaves and it's doing great, except it has BBA fringing the egdes of the leaves. Do I cut off all the bad leaves (80%) that took so long to grow? Or should I just wait and hope all of this will work? Cheers, Crabby ?

Oh with that whole catching the shrimp and fish out idea - would it cause my berried mama to drop her eggs possibly? I don't really want to risk that, but then again - neither do I want to lose any more adult shrimp. Maybe I could gently catch her out in a jug, so she stays in the water the whole time? I've found my shrimp will often willingly swim into the net, at first, if nothing has been disrupted. Opinions, anyone? Or super mods? :)

Ahaha yeah I hope they will! Haven't seen them go for it yet, but maybe (as I'm dosing excel again) once it starts dying a bit they might eat it? To be fair I've been a bit caught up, haven't been watching them 24/7 or anything. Still totally loving how they swim around like absolute best buds. It's the cutest. Honestly, it's pretty much everywhere at this point. Wood, plants, rock, glass, moss. Only place without might be the substrate... but then again I can't even see the substrate anymore ? Again I feel super stupid for not thinking of this one, thankyou Simon for being the king of common sense! I can do that with my biggest rock, that'll look loads better. The others have java moss that attached to them. And the driftwood has some anubias attached, plus my apistogrammas look like they're breeding again and they used that as a cave last time. Also I'm going to remove all the dwarf chain sword, if I can, because I don't like it much and it's making a mess, plus it has BBA in it. Will update in maybe a week on what I've done and how it's going. Thanks fellas.