My latest Aquarium Saga

[chriznat20@msn.]

Ok well today I did my tests and my nitrites are finally dropping!! thats the good news... heres the bad news, I have had a rams horn snail for about a month. About 2 weeks ago, i noticed it had layed eggs in the corner of my tank, near the bottom, on the silicone in the edge. The next day they were gone, so i figured a fish ate them, or my pleco had a tasty treat... WELL! I was checking out my filter today and I saw a spec of something brown, of course, it was a baby snail. I promptly turned my filter off and put him in the tank (sorry to all the snail haters, i love snails!) My tiger barbs almost immediately noticed him and started "checking" him out by trying to suck him off the rocks, of which (smart snail that he is) burrowed a little deeper in them. I did check my other filter and he is the only one that made it - kind of surprised me!!
My question: Is it gonna get eaten? I have a striped rafael, a ringed loach, and a pleco, along with tiger barbs, gouramis, you know the usual.
My other snail is sm/med sized (about 1/3 inch) and they dont bug him one bit. I know they multiply, and thats fine with me, but with my bottom feeders, i worry he might be a crispy critter snack. Which of the fish that i listed likes to eat snails? can i take him and put him in a fishbowl with some gravel from my tank until it gets bigger to put back in ?? Please be un biased, hehe, i know how you people feel about snails. I just wanna keep this one, i have to say hes a pretty handsome little sucker and he was the only one to make it out of all those eggs.

 

[d9hp]

Well, I say get him and some others in a bowl, and put it next to a window with a ton of light. They will mulitply, then you wont notice the ones being eaten.

 

[chriznat20@msn.]

Haha there you are again when you say get him and some others in a bowl, what do you mean? some other fish? or snails? i think my fish would eat him in a bowl What if i just put him in a bowl with some gravel and a plant... hey!! and my bala shark, my other fish have been eating his fins.... *$&#ers !! haha do you think my bala shark, my baby snail, some gravel and a fake plant would make it for a short while until my *quarantine* tank comes (remember the 5 gallon from petco that im bidding on ebay?)

 

[d9hp]

I dont know how long the bala would last, I think a bucket would be better
like a 5 gallon.

I meant put a bunch of snails in a bowl, next to a window, where it will encourage algae. This way more and more will produce, also, put flakes in it, which will produce ammonia (snails strive with this)

 

[chriznat20@msn.]

Ah ha! ok, now i understand. well the only thing wrong here is i only have 2 snails-one that layed the eggs, and this one that survived. Its apparent the rest of the eggs didnt hatch/didnt make it, or whatever.I guess i shouldnt worry about the snail, i mean im sure there will be more :? by the way, whats up with this guy? is this an alien giving everybody the finger? LOL its funny, there are all these "nice" little faces, and then that alien.

 

[cdawson]

buy ten snails, put them in a bucket with a leaf of lettuce, put lid on...then let them go to town for about 3 weeks. You'll have plenty of snails.

 

[tyler]

back to the original question, loaches are snail eaters.

 

[d9hp]

Missed the loach, good eye tyler.