Recent content by JAG8472

We just got a Fire Eel from a LFS. The owner told us the eel will be fine in out 30G FW, planted, community, tank. He also said the eel will grow very slowly and could stay in this tank for years. A You-Tube video of someone feeding their giant Fire Eel by hand has me worried, should I be...

The plants aren't really thick thick, this is a picture of the overall tank.

This is how it starts you can see the brown areas turning white. Quickly this will turn into a white, almost clear, stem when then breaks apart.

35 gallon tank heavily planted, with what I don't know. It's a tank I was given from a friend who wasn't sure either. Recently the tank had a massive bloom of pond snails. Which my Spotted Puffer (different tank) loves. Also, two golden mystery snails were introduced about 3 weeks ago. Shortly...

I've noticed the stems/stocks/shoots are turning brown first. Almost all my plants are like this now on some part of their run.

Recently I had an explosion of Pond Snails in my planted tank and I think they are destroying my plants. Over the last few weeks I noticed the plant stems/shoots are going white and the plant dies off slowly. Can anyone tell me if what you see here is "Plant Death by Pond Snail".

I don't think light is the problem. Unless maybe the age of the bulbs mean they could be loosing their spectrum... I don't know how old the bulbs are.

I've attached 3 more pictures. Hopefully this will help in determining what's going on with my plants. The only think I can think of is the Golden Mystery Snails are killing them?

Looks like those two stalks died off.

No, nothing like that at this point.

Such as? They look pretty normal to me.

It's been about a month since I set up the 10 G for breeding snails. The majority of them died but there was a lot of eggs and now a lot of very small "baby" snails. What died was the medium small snails that laid those eggs. Mostly empty white shells on the bottom of the tank now. What are...

Over the last few days I've noticed that the stalks on some of the plants are gone white. Can anyone tell me if this is normal?

My Silvertips attack my Bloodfins :s Trade? Lol

I know this is an old thread, but how can you tell the males from the females? I have 3 Silvertips and I think they are all evil.