29 + 10 planted

[Fresh2o]

Glad to see you still have the forktail Rainbows! I agree on cutting the CO2. A few years ago I gasses mine

 

[TMaier]

I wish my kuhli’s would snack on a few. Are your kuhli’s getting big and fat yet?

 

[nirbhao]

Glad to see you still have the forktail Rainbows! I agree on cutting the CO2. A few years ago I gasses mine

The rainbows are, by a narrow margin, my favorite. I love how they play and flair.

I wish my kuhli’s would snack on a few. Are your kuhli’s getting big and fat yet?

A couple look like patterned earthworms with mouse faces. They love to snuggle with each other.

 

[nirbhao]

I took my CupriSorb out, thinking it was the Purigen. It was black. I'm so grateful for everything it caught!

 

[nirbhao]

I moved some of the ozelot over. I don't really like how it looks. Hmm

 

[nirbhao]

It's been a bit.

Yesterday one of the rainbows was swimming sideways. It got caught in the filter outflow and was pushed into the sagittaria sublata. I went to remove her, and she decided she was not interested in going anywhere. I can no longer tell which fish had been behaving strangely, and I haven't seen her do anything like that again.

I witnessed a snailicide. I'm not sure what the impetus was, but two snails went at it and only one left the scene.

Mostly it's nice and calm, which makes sitting and watching really nice. We still find ramshorns pretty much every day, which is disappointing. Those snails are invincible.

 

[Delapool]

Wow - never seen snails do that! Was it road rage??

 

[TMaier]

Breeding I bet. Sometimes they are so busy someone runs out of air.

 

[nirbhao]

I changed the water a couple of hours ago. Everything was fine until maybe half an hour ago when all of the young mystery snails hit the water line.





All of them. What's happening?

Breeding I bet. Sometimes they are so busy someone runs out of air.

Wow - never seen snails do that! Was it road rage??

It started out looking like breeding. It was really strange and honestly pretty upsetting.

 

[TMaier]

Are they feeding at the waterline? Sometimes the debris from stirring the tank is tasty. If they are pulled in the water parameters changed a lot. Or too much conditioner?

 

[nirbhao]

Are they feeding at the waterline? Sometimes the debris from stirring the tank is tasty. If they are pulled in the water parameters changed a lot. Or too much conditioner?

Ahha. I did scrub the glass especially well this time. They are not pulled in.

That's funny. I thought they were in distress, not chomping away at loosened up algae.

 

[TMaier]

They are snacking.

 

[Delapool]

Learning so much on snails [emoji222][emoji106]

 

[Caliban07]

I notice if I top up above the evaporation line. Critters migrate to the top. There must be something tasty when evaporation residue is rewetted.

 

[Delapool]

Always learning something new here!

 

[nirbhao]

One of our rabbit snails lost her operculum but is still alive. ??

 

[nirbhao]

Poor Beatrix



I put her in the isolation box, and... She's laying an egg.





On the other side of the tank, everybody is enjoying a leek.

 

[Delapool]

Good luck with recovery - what happened?

Wow - that leek is popular.

 

[nirbhao]

Anyone need a Malaysian trumpet snail?

 

[TMaier]

You’ve had a snailsplosion! Post an ad for them. Some hungry fish or sand bed could use them.