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I've never dealt with power heads, so I don't know the mechanics of them, but I use a pre-filter type sponge on all my filter intakes. I lost 2 snails from them getting caught in the intake before I took that step. It does lower the flow a bit, but my filters are adjustable so I turn them up...

As promised, photos of the little ones :)

I've got loads of pink and purple brigs that are ready for new homes. They are plant safe and population control is easy. I can ship to anywhere in the lower 48 and have the proper USDA permits. After I do water changes tomorrow I'll post some pictures of them. Most of them are pencil eraser...

Boosting the calcium in the tank using cuttlebone never hurts, but IMO your snail looks fine. New growth is laid down in layers. The last layer to be laid down is the color. If this guy is a new resident from a pet store, he is likely growing FAST because you have good clean water and plenty...

I saw a tip posted a few days ago (may have been here...who knows LOL!). The person suggested dropping a few algae wafers/shrimp pellets in your net and sinking the net down in the tank. Then when you want to remove the gathered snails, just lift it on out. Of course if you've got fish that...

Clutches are easy to ship. Just wrap them in a barely damp paper towel or bit of filter floss, put them in a plastic baggie and then into a well padded box. Priority mail takes 2-3 days and generally runs $4.05 for a small box. Mail on a Mon or Tues if you can so they don't spend the weekend...

I spent some time digging on planetcatfish.com. Here are some that I came up with :) HTH http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=461 http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=1201 http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=1826

I think I would just leave the neons as the only fish, except maybe a couple of otos. I'd probably up the school to 8ish as well. You could add a handful of ghost shrimp or cherry reds or maybe even an African Dwarf Frog.

Aren't they so much fun to watch! I'm glad they are up and checking things out! This is one of the best parts about mystery snails. If they lay eggs for you, they are above the water line. Super easy to spot and dispose of or offer to send them out to someone. And to share in the snail...

Java fern is Asian. That is all off the top of my head, but plantgeek.net has listings of plants by region.

What about a huge school of these guys?? You can find them on www.franksaquarium.com under the nano-fish, but I've heard some say they found them locally too. Barring you getting my dream fish (hey, I like to live vicariously!), what about some harlequin rasboras? Very pretty fish, very...

Sorry, I should have been more clear. By apples I mean canas, the softball sized plant eaters. By mysteries I mean brigs, the golfball sized plant safe snails. For the most part, in my area, they are sold with those terms to differentiate them.

Mystery snails would be a very expensive snack in your tank I believe. I'm not familiar with gobies (though I thought they were brackish fish??), but loaches are often snail eaters. The gouramis and the tetras would likely nip off the snails feelers if the loach didn't get to them first. I'm...

If you are meaning common ponds, ramshorns and MTS, they really add hardly anything to the bioload. If you are talking about mysteries or apples, then yes you should count them towards your "fish count." Mysteries need about 2.5 gallons per adult snail. Apples need about 5 gallons each. They...

What about a few MTS snails? Yeah, they can breed like mad if the food is there, but they are pretty cool little guys. You can hand pick out some if they start getting over populated. A divided 5 is pretty full with the 2 bettas in it. 2 mystery snails would max out a 5 gallon by themselves...

Otos are tricky little guys. One of the keys seems to be looking for ones that have fat rounded tummies. There are theories about their capture method causing the fragility of them. Another theory deals with the bacteria in their guts and them basically starving at the LFS. For...

The raft is plastic craft canvas siliconed to strips of styrofoam. You could silicone on some suction cups to keep it in place and use it in tank. This wasn't a clutch laid here and I didn't want the babies in my main tank yet so I floated it in a plastic tupperware type container. I set that...

Yes, pomacea bridgesii. This is one 3 days after laying. And 11 days after laying.

Fish-4-all, I think that Columbians and Mysteries (bridgesii) have very different clutches. Mysteries clutches would drown in a net breeder unless it was completely out of the water. I can't even imagine trying to hatch and care for that many clutches! You must have been drowning in snail...

I just had a clutch hatch Saturday. They look pretty gross right before they hatch. I thought I would share a photo with you so you don't think they've rotted and throw them out :) And these are the tiny babies at 1 day old. The gravel is ordinary pea gravel...1ish cm in diameter.

I can tell you first hand what happens to Walmart's "unwanted" fish. They simply stay in the tanks until they die from the overcrowding or disease. If disease is rampant in a specific tank, and not responding to treatment, often the entire tank is euthanized (at my store via the freezer...

Was the molly in the tank alone when you noticed the ich? If not, you MUST treat both tanks. You also MUST treat for the entire time specified on the medication, or for at least a full week AFTER all the spots are gone if using a heat/salt method. I'm linking an article written by someone I...

Thier water comes from the same resevior, but a different company treats it so the kH/gH/pH are different, but not drastically so. We live about 10 miles from them, but in a different town.

I'm having a bit of a crisis today. I started in on water changes, got 2 tanks emptied about 40%. Went to start refilling and NO WATER! Crap! Of course it was over the lunch hour so no one was at the village hall. I just got through to them and the dang state busted our main while they were...

LOL Musket...a brig colony...could you imagine 100 brigs at feeding time? I've got an 80 that I've contemplated making the focus brigs, but that would mean all my tanks are brig based LOL! Hmm, I think I might go with 1 really big school of tetras, plus a clean up crew of some sort. I think...