Evening, all.
I have a question in regards to reintroducing nerite snails after losing a fish to velvet. In early to mid May, I lost my betta fish to velvet. He had two nerite snails in his tank with him, and as I understand it, they cannot get velvet, but they can transmit it.
As such, I moved them into their own small tank with a heater/filter/cuttle bone, and have been keeping them by themselves so as not to infect any of my other fish/tanks.
I recently set up a 38g community tank, and I would like to add the other two nerites to this tank (there is soooo much for them to eat in there, lol!), but I am absolutely terrified of killing all my fish. =\
At what point, if ever, is it going to be okay for me to add these guys back into a regular tank? At this point, I believe they've been by themselves for 6-8 weeks (I can't remember exactly, I know my fish died like a week or two before Memorial Day).
It makes me nervous to think of introducing something like that into my main tank. But at the same time, I do know that at some point, the organism should die off if it has no host. Can it go dormant and then reappear when introduced into a new tank with fish hosts? My poor betta suffered quite a bit (I didn't figure out what it was until it was too late ) and I can't imagine going through that in my main tank. >.<
Any ideas?
I have a question in regards to reintroducing nerite snails after losing a fish to velvet. In early to mid May, I lost my betta fish to velvet. He had two nerite snails in his tank with him, and as I understand it, they cannot get velvet, but they can transmit it.
As such, I moved them into their own small tank with a heater/filter/cuttle bone, and have been keeping them by themselves so as not to infect any of my other fish/tanks.
I recently set up a 38g community tank, and I would like to add the other two nerites to this tank (there is soooo much for them to eat in there, lol!), but I am absolutely terrified of killing all my fish. =\
At what point, if ever, is it going to be okay for me to add these guys back into a regular tank? At this point, I believe they've been by themselves for 6-8 weeks (I can't remember exactly, I know my fish died like a week or two before Memorial Day).
It makes me nervous to think of introducing something like that into my main tank. But at the same time, I do know that at some point, the organism should die off if it has no host. Can it go dormant and then reappear when introduced into a new tank with fish hosts? My poor betta suffered quite a bit (I didn't figure out what it was until it was too late ) and I can't imagine going through that in my main tank. >.<
Any ideas?