GLOBAL1
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Jul 10, 2016
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So if I try to starve them then they turn to the plants? I have no other fish in my tank that eats plants that I'm aware of, the rainbow I had that did passed a few months ago.I tried to starve them out once and they will eat what they can when nothing else is available.
Yeah i have about 25 in the tank right now that I can visually see, and every other day I have a few dead and stuck to my filter inlet, I just noticed my kangaroo creek rainbows are plant munchers which makes no sense as they get fed twice daily and a wide variety of premium Food.When I first got the Ramshorns I was overfeeding. The population exploded. I tried to starve them out and they started eating plants and other snails, my beloved Mystery Snails. I had to spend an afternoon tearing the tank down, changing the gravel substrate where 90% of them were and inspecting and removing eggs on everything to get it under control.
I watch their numbers much more diligently now.
Lol yeah I had it that bad before lol, I was like ohhhh nooooooo lol, I countersunk lettuce every night before lights out for 2 weeks removing the lettuce with many attached in the Am.Sometimes you just want a little salad with your steak and potatoes!
25 isn’t bad. I would suggest you pick all out but 5! Leave the 5 prettiest. My puffer is always ready to take care of excess snails. They go to his tank.
My old tank was so bad it looked the gravel was alive and moving.
No I don't have any metals in the tank what so ever, I did get a TDS Meter but had to send it back cause it didn't work waiting on replacement , I don't know if that will tell me but there's nothing in the tank thats metal.Anything that might have metals in it? I just removed the substrate from my nursery tank. It was killing off the inverts but the fish were fine. I think the inverts grazing off it they were ingesting the metals.
Both are dying, or maybe they shedded as the shells are empty unless my filter ate themThe snails do not have a long lifespan. Is it mature ones or youngsters?
Lol your choice of words cracks me up[emoji23], I could understand if it was a nerite or a specialty snail but these are just ramshorn lol, my herbalexrodi is just a little monster, probably from getting harassed by the male irani red that's 4x her size, now she's just like come at me bro lol.They hate Excel and anything ferts unless it’s real low. Nippy fish will definitely kill them off. I had to take my Honey Gourami back to the LFS. Hovered over the snails like a Death Star.