fibreheart
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Mar 13, 2011
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I never went the live plant route with any of my tanks. It was always plastic.
With my new Mbuna 90 I went and bit the bullet. I got a Cryp Spiralis(??SP) and and Amazon Sword. I also have a japanese moss ball, but I don't really consider that a plant per say.
Anyways, I have read these are really easy plants to start with and my Mbuna and Haps seem to like them for hiding. My haps hover in the spikey grass, it's so cool. Well, I got them from 2 different LFS. Now, I noticed my Mbuna fighting in the front next to the Sword. Not really a big deal, but I thought I should check it out and sure enough they were fighting over a pond snail. It must have come in on the Sword because I got the Spiralis last week. So my questions are. Will pond snails turn over my sand? I was looking into getting MTS to do that because I have 1/4 of my tank in front full of common areas. No cave entrances etc. So if there is any digging, theroetically, this sand will never get turned by the diggers in my tank. So if the pond snails can turn over that area that would be a bonus.
My second question concerns numbers. If their numbers start to grow, I have a common pleco, 2 bristlenose, a CAE, a weather loach and of course my Albino Haps and EB Haps. Will these be able to keep the populations down or do the snails breed to fast for that
Thank you all. If you say this is a bad idea I can scour my plants to see if there are more. I only saw the one and I put the sword in last night.
With my new Mbuna 90 I went and bit the bullet. I got a Cryp Spiralis(??SP) and and Amazon Sword. I also have a japanese moss ball, but I don't really consider that a plant per say.
Anyways, I have read these are really easy plants to start with and my Mbuna and Haps seem to like them for hiding. My haps hover in the spikey grass, it's so cool. Well, I got them from 2 different LFS. Now, I noticed my Mbuna fighting in the front next to the Sword. Not really a big deal, but I thought I should check it out and sure enough they were fighting over a pond snail. It must have come in on the Sword because I got the Spiralis last week. So my questions are. Will pond snails turn over my sand? I was looking into getting MTS to do that because I have 1/4 of my tank in front full of common areas. No cave entrances etc. So if there is any digging, theroetically, this sand will never get turned by the diggers in my tank. So if the pond snails can turn over that area that would be a bonus.
My second question concerns numbers. If their numbers start to grow, I have a common pleco, 2 bristlenose, a CAE, a weather loach and of course my Albino Haps and EB Haps. Will these be able to keep the populations down or do the snails breed to fast for that
Thank you all. If you say this is a bad idea I can scour my plants to see if there are more. I only saw the one and I put the sword in last night.