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The light fixture I have is actually for a ten gallon so if I get the proper bulbs I don't think providing enough light will be a problem. I am assuming one uses a high spectrum bulb (it's fluorescent) as far as budget goes, it's not my main concern, but the main purpose of the tank is to hold...

Hi all, I have a five gallon that I'm setting up for ramshorns and pond snails (for food) and I just ordered a bunch more from someone who reccomended using a heavily planted tank for them instead of a bare tank (this is how he breeds his) I have been breeding mine in a little 1.5 gallon but...

I found a guy on aquabid who is willing to ship some ramshorns to me in Canada since I can't find any available in this country :nono: Question is, what kind of rules are they subjected to and do they survive shipping well? He said he's never actually shipped to Canada before. You folks in...

I should have thought about taking a pocture of it :) Last night I did an ammonia test in the snail tank and it was quite high so I did a complete water change and got all the stuff out of there - I had to throw out some very tiny snails as a result but oh well. I hooked up an Aquatech 5-15...

I've had a 1.5 gallon container with pond snails in it for about 6 weeks now, and suddenly the pleco log pieces I put in are growing a very tough fungi-like fuzz within a day of me putting them in there. It's so tough that I can't even break it apart when it gets stuck in my siphon and filter! I...

I am planning on upgrading to a 30 gal in my dorm room - problem is, my "desk" might not be able to hold it as it is. I understand a 30 gal would weigh about 250 lbs ish. As of right now the desk is made out of 1 inch particle board, it has an angle iron brace running along the front and two...

depending on the salt tolderance of the fish you have, you can try gradually adding a little bit of freshwater aquarium salt to your tank at a level safe for your fish. I accidentally killed my trapdoor snails once by putting fresh water in their tank that had a tiny amount of salt in it...

My local petland is okay, they try pretty hard but like people say, business first. I asked them a few weeks ago how big a tank a green spotted puffer would need, and they looked it up in the book... they said "ten gallons... but it can't have any tank mates in a tank that size." I didn't say...

I have been doing some reading and it seems everyone is always being cautious about getting a phosphorus-free calcium source - wouldn't phosphorus be good because it encourages algae growth, which snails also eat?

I have a 1.5 gallon tank heated and filtered with pond snails and a couple ramshorns, building up stock for a puffer fish I want to get. I have been feeding them pleco logs, lettuce, zuchinni, and spinach, which they all like. The problem is with cleaning the tank. When I siphon all the waste...

Yes I have heard this one - do the snails eat it or does it just diffuse into the water? Do you have to change it every so often?

I've had a 1.5 gallon going with some pond snails and a couple small ramshorns and I am starting to notice the shells eroding. I am assuming I need to add calcium to the water (I am trying to breed them so I want them to develop well!) Is this due to lack of calcium, low pH, low general...

The Petcetera here in Kamloops is absultely awful in their fish department. I've only been in there a couple times and every time, I leave angry. They once had a tank full of male guppies that were COVERED in ich, some of them could barely swim and several were dead on the gravel, and I watched...

Alrighty, it is settled. Good advice. I just whipped out my low range test kit that i just bought... and there's no colour chart inside!! *facepalm*

Yeah I have heard this... I was just a little leary because I have never had a pH that was any lower than 7.6-8.2 and my fish always did well. I'll pick up a low range kit today but will probably just leave the pH well enough alone.

So my tank is almost done cycling, but the piece of driftwood i put in a couple weeks ago has stained the water brown and made it slightly acidic (even though i soaked the wood for a week before putting it into the tank) My pH tester is only a high range kit so it doesn't register on the chart...

They reccomend at least 15-20 gallons for a f8 puffer. Dimension-wise, a 20 gal isn't too much more space-occupying than a ten and you could house one figure 8 in there (I am cycling my ten for dwarfs too at the moment, but am wanting to get a 20 so I can get a f8 as well) I have a one gallon...

I know how you feel - when I went to university I had to get rid of all my animals - I had near on 40 rabbits which I was selectively breeding, quail, partidges, a line of tricoloured domestic mice that i had been working on for close to a year... then i moved from a 16 acre farm to a 100 sq...

I have ordered bettas from Thailand on several occasions, they take about 3 days to arrive to canada and another 2 days to get from the trans-shipper to me. They all arived fine except for one, and the breeder credited me for it. They are very nice fish that you'd be hard-pressed to find in a...

keep in mind that apple snails get flippin humungus and snails in general poop so much you wonder it seems like they would have to be bigger on the inside to hold it all. If you do add a snail you might be better off with a small one like a nerite or something. hehehe... "oops" :D Someone...

yeah the strips are crap, I like the liquid test kits. It seems for me that even when I put enough ammonia in my tank to get it up to 8+ ppm, my nitrites won't get any higher than 1-2 before they spike and start going down LOL so perhaps your high nitrite spike is a good thing (although not...

sounded like that one fish you brought home had ich, too. I have heard time and time again that "bacteria supplements" are a load of rubbish. I have a really hard time believing how on earth they do any good - because the bacteria need to be ALIVE, and if they are sealed up in a container with...

they might eat your plants, depending on what kind they are... more than likely they will breed and in 6 months there will be more snail than fish tank :D They also put more bioload in the tank.

I guess you will have to do some extra buttering up with the folks now, LOL My parents had a simple set of rules about pets for me: 1. Everything stayed in my study room (I had a BED room upstairs which was literally just that, a bed and clothes in a room) 2. No animals must come out of...

Technically speaking, even though the Ich parasite has to be present in the water to cause disease, the hormones that are released by creatures under long-term stress supress the immune system making the creature less able to fight off infection. Healthy fish exposed to ich don't always show...