I was given a few baby auger snails for my baby biorb a couple of years ago. I know they have multiplied because sometimes, usually at night, up to a dozen appear at once sometimes quite a few more.
During the day I guess they hide in the substrate but its tricky to see any of them.
Tonight, it looks like every single one of them, from babies to those up to an inch long, have all come out at once. I'd estimate at least a 100 of them.
My biorb is cold/fresh and they share with a chinese golden algae eater quite happily. I feed with algae wafers. I'm not sure if it's the fish, snails or both that keep the algae down but I don't have an algae problem at the moment!
What I wanted to know is, why have they all come out at once? I'm in the UK, the room they are in has the heating thermostat right next to their tank and it's a fairly constant 19 degrees +/- a degree so I can't think of any environmental changes that might have caused it. They don't just come out in the dark and disappear when the lights come on,
What's occurring!
During the day I guess they hide in the substrate but its tricky to see any of them.
Tonight, it looks like every single one of them, from babies to those up to an inch long, have all come out at once. I'd estimate at least a 100 of them.
My biorb is cold/fresh and they share with a chinese golden algae eater quite happily. I feed with algae wafers. I'm not sure if it's the fish, snails or both that keep the algae down but I don't have an algae problem at the moment!
What I wanted to know is, why have they all come out at once? I'm in the UK, the room they are in has the heating thermostat right next to their tank and it's a fairly constant 19 degrees +/- a degree so I can't think of any environmental changes that might have caused it. They don't just come out in the dark and disappear when the lights come on,
What's occurring!