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hello! I have been keeping mystery snails for about a year and successfully bred them even. (ended up donating most to my LFS.) but! I CONSTANTLY am adding calcium. and my water is fine.. the only thing is the pest snails have gotten a little out of control... can pest snails cause damage to my...

the ABSOLUTE BEST tip ive found for feeding my "micro fish" or fish that have TIIIINY mouths is I bought a peppercorn grinder. on amazon. was under $10. and I put a mix of flake, crushed algae wafers, dried blood worms and some small granule food. mix it all up and feed them a few twists of the...

hello all! ive had this tank up since march. and have 2 LARGE mystery snails that ive had since setting up the tank! (theyre larger than a golf ball) anyways.. I had a female, and she climbed out of the tank and cracked her shell and passed away.. I still had an egg clutch of hers.. so I...

So, for the last year or so, I've had 2 large mystery snails, a gold female and a brown/black male. I ended up receiving a purple mystery snail as a teeny tiny baby and it since has grown to the same massive size... Sadly, I lost my gold female due to a fall and broken shell... :( I was...

Please help!! My Garra Rufa is losing its scales. Just very small random patches that look like single scales missing all over his body!! I havent been able to find any info on this either... He is still acting the same and otherwise seems healthy! And the water has been testing the same as it...

Hello all!! So last night, around 11p.m. my gold Inca mystery snail managed to climb up my HOB filter and out. Fell off the tank, hit the desk and then the floor, luckily, she landed on a piece of styrofoam or I think it would be even worse if that's possible... I've found 3 large pieces of...

Hello! My LFS had these listed as 'half banded loaches' However, the pics I see online dont look much like the fish I have... Are these half banded loaches? Or something else? One of them doesn't even have stripes. Just a white belly and light gray top half.. 2 of them, do have stripes on the...

Hello all!! Today I noticed my first shrimplets! I could see at least 5 of them and 2 different sizes. (Which i knew i had AT typoLEAST 2 very berried females) Anyways, I've been using BacterAE about once a week. (And only a TINY amount) and i have crushed up a tiny shrimp algae wafer and put it...

Hello! So. I have a 3.5 gallon tank with a sponge filter running that is currently housing about 12 cherry shrimp since I treated the tank that they were in with something that was not invert safe. It did solve the problem however , so I am happy!! But, I've recently been putting a piece of my...

Hello, I got a little crew of half banded loaches from my LFS about a month ago... But am having a hard time finding much info online about them about breeding... Has anyone kept them before? Or have any info on breeding them? I am guessing they lay eggs?? I have one in the group that has a...

Hello all!! I am curious, has anyone ever had shrimp die because of a plant weight?? I know some I've gotten from a LFS are not magnetic and I am wondering if they have lead in them. I have lost the occasional shrimp or few when I had a piece of cholla wood weighted down by these plant weights...

I recently got a new garra rufa (doctor fish) and there isnt much info out there on them, besides the whole foot spa thing.. there is almost zero info I can find for having them in the hobby... and the one I got... has a LARGE belly and is ALWAYS eating!! How do i know if it is pregnant?? Any...

Hello all, I am new to the forum, and fairly new to the hobby. (Had a tank when I was younger that totally died due to ich from walmart fish about 18 years ago!) So that doesnt count. I recently got sober. And needed something to take up my time & money... and boy did i find it! Started with a...