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I have the yellow Rabbit snails with little black stripes. All the babies have perfect black shells except one that has a striped shell. They are in a 29 tall with 5 Tiger Barbs and two tetras and one Gold Gourami, as well as 4 Amano shrimp. 78 degree water with hard water. I'm sure the hard...

Interesting that there aren't many comments about Rabbit snails! I do know that they have only been sold as pets in the U.S. for maybe 20 years, so it's not surprising that some of the info is new. I bought 2 adult Rabbit snails last December, just over a year ago now. At this point I count 12...

That's what I was hoping. I will just be patient and feed 'em until they can defend themselves! Thanks for the replies!

Well, yes the tank does have hiding places, but I feel like the fish will eventually be able to get to them if they really want to. I think that if I can wait until the shrimp are fully grown, they will have the best chance to make it. But if that won't work, then the little tank will just be...

Hey fellow fish people! I have a 29 gal. tank with 6 Tiger Barbs, 2 Long Finned Tetras, and 2 Gold Gouramis, and 2 Rabbit Snails. I have 6 Amano Shrimp in a small tank growing up big and strong so they can be transferred to the larger tank. They range from 1 inch to 1.25 inches. Does anyone...

Update Okay, so at 11 weeks the tank is cycled. Ammonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 0. Last water change was 5 days ago. The reason I'm posting is to let everyone know not to trust the Tetra 6 in 1 test strips. I had a liquid ammonia test, but was using the Tetra strips for the nitrite and...

A little garlic butter with your escargot sir?:slurp:

Okay, cool!So if the algae is doing anything it would be helping with ammonia. I feed once a day, pretty lightly and watch as the Tiger Barbs patrol the gravel pretty thoroughly for leftovers, so I'm still a little puzzled by the ammonia level. It's low but I would like to see it settle to 0.

Well, it has cultivated a little bit of algae in the past week. Could that actually affect the ammonia? I never had algae cause it before that I know of. Isn't it true that algae has to have nitrates? Anyway, I think this problem will just take a little more patience. Probably correct itself...

I test daily and again about an hour after a water change. Also, I have not added any of the Stability for probably 3 weeks. My theory is that because of the Stability, I have some bacteria that are converting most of the ammonia and nitrite, but the tank is still naturally growing its own BB...

I had two FW tanks all through the 90s. One 55 gal. and a 29 gal. high. Had a pretty thorough education on the nitrogen cycle from the LFS, and successfully cycled both tanks with just one casualty and kept them fully stocked until Oct. 2002. I did not have a tank again until now. So I finally...

Mexican Crayfish tank mate I'm wondering if a few Nero Snails might work for tank mates.