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We have a 29 gallon aquarium with 6 guppies and about 20 babies. The nitrate, nitrite, ph, hardness are all good but the alkalinity is the lowest that it could be. I need to know if this is a huge problem and if its something that could be deadly.. Also how can i fix it?

Can pond snail eggs survive in hot water? Also can they survive outside of the water and still hatch?

Oh okay..wow. so I guess it's safe to say they can survive indoors with no heater or filter! Thanks for taking the time to research it. We have been debating on whether or not to do it because we didn't know if they could survive. The 5 gallon is just sitting around so we figure why not harvest...

In Georgia, not that cold but it does get coldEr around December and January.

We removed the entire carbon filter because that's what the medicine said to do..

So they wouldn't be able to live without a heater? We were thinking about putting them in our 5 gallons but we wouldn't have a heater or a filter to go in there. Do you think they could survive there?

We will definitely start doing water changes more..we just didn't think they were that dangerous if you didn't do them. Thank you for all of your advice! :)

The tank has been set up since July..and the nitrate was probably about 5 on the strip. We deactivated the medicine a minute ago by putting the filters back in. We did a 25% water change earlier because it was part of the medicine treatment. We probably don't do water changes as often as we...

Both the nitrite and nitrate are at 0. Were not sure about the ammonia because we don't have an ammonia test kit. They don't really act like they're gasping for air. We also have baby guppies and they are swimming everywhere, like on the bottom and all through the tank. It's just the adults at...

Yeah I've seen them sleep. I always catch them at the bottom when I turn the light on. It's just weird, they have been at the top for like 5 hours! I'm worried something is wrong but everything is fine as far as we can see. And they are all going in the same exact direction and staying the the...

We have 8 guppies...2 old and 6 we just bought today. All of the tests come back good..normal Ph, water conditions are good, just recently did a water change, it has 1 big airstone and 2 filters, the temp is good. It is a 29 gallon aquarium. We are currently in the process of treating the tank...

Okay I got another question about the pond snails. They are just multiplying like crazy now and getting worse and worse...if we collect all of them and put them in an actual pond do you think they would survive? Since they are 'pond snails'? Even though they have been raised in an aquarium..

I have a guppy who I think has fin rot..is there anything that will for sure cure it?

This is our big mystery snail.

It would probably work..we just can't bring ourselves to kill any. I guess they are fine until they start causing a problem! Or until they take over the tank..

Yes I have noticed they start to reproduce early! We have found numerous egg sacs since earlier. Plus a lot more little babies. I guess we will just raise them until they start causing trouble. If it gets too out of hand you can sell them on eBay. We can't come to killing them! Is it any kind...

I also have one more question.. do pond snails usually stay small or do they get big? We read online they don't get bigger than an inch but I wanted to ask you because you seem to know everything about snails!

Okay thanks a lot! we also figured out how we got them! We went to the pet store to buy a couple of guppies a while back and I noticed in the tank that there were a few baby snails in there. Well later on after we put our new fish in the tank I noticed we had a baby snail in ours. This was when...

Yea I think we've decided our babies are pond snails. We have no idea how they got here. Thank you for everything. You have been very helpful!

This is also a problem because we only have a 29 gallon aquarium. We have 2 grown guppies and about 20 baby guppies in there already. It seems like the snails are taking over!

So we just got here and we found about 5 clear sacs with clear eggs in them. The babies do not look like the big one..can you send me a link to pictures of baby pond snails? I'm scared that's what they are it just doesn't make sense.

I could be wrong about the size..I would have to look when I got home.

If it was a spixi would that explain the eggs colors and being laid underwater? and the fact that there are so many?

It's the same colors except it's more black with little golden stripes...so it could be possible.

It's the same colors except ours is more black with little golden stripes.