crouton_cc
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Sep 22, 2006
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I have a apple snail (pretty sure thats the kind) from a pet store, needless to say the staff didn't know their hand from their foot.
I have a few ?'s that I am getting conflicting answers from on the NET. Maybe someone here can help me out....
My 3 gallon aquarium has a male betta in it and the snail (about an inch in size). I hand feed my betta his food (he's so cute), so he doesn't really waste much food. Nothing falls to the bottom, he eats it all.
Questions:
1) I feed my snail once a day a 1/2 inch very thin sliver of some kind of vegetable I have in the fridge that sinks (carrot, brocoli, ect...lettuce would be nice, but it floats). I am feeding it correctly? Too much, too often, wrong food? Or is all OK?
2) He is growing a little hair do of algae, is it ok for this to happen? I have read to bleach him to kill it, but I refuse. Can I just use an old tooth brush on him? Is he ok to be out of the water for a few minutes?
3) He leaves behind two different things in my aquarium, brown strings and whitish strings...I assume the brown is poo and the white is just slime? How do I clean that whitish stringy things, they are all over my artificial plants and my castle that my betta sleeps in. It is very ugly, it looks like a house that has been toilet papers on hallowe'en.
I would love to have feedback on my questions, or a good site to answer them, and I have search and read everything I could, but to no avail.
I have a few ?'s that I am getting conflicting answers from on the NET. Maybe someone here can help me out....
My 3 gallon aquarium has a male betta in it and the snail (about an inch in size). I hand feed my betta his food (he's so cute), so he doesn't really waste much food. Nothing falls to the bottom, he eats it all.
Questions:
1) I feed my snail once a day a 1/2 inch very thin sliver of some kind of vegetable I have in the fridge that sinks (carrot, brocoli, ect...lettuce would be nice, but it floats). I am feeding it correctly? Too much, too often, wrong food? Or is all OK?
2) He is growing a little hair do of algae, is it ok for this to happen? I have read to bleach him to kill it, but I refuse. Can I just use an old tooth brush on him? Is he ok to be out of the water for a few minutes?
3) He leaves behind two different things in my aquarium, brown strings and whitish strings...I assume the brown is poo and the white is just slime? How do I clean that whitish stringy things, they are all over my artificial plants and my castle that my betta sleeps in. It is very ugly, it looks like a house that has been toilet papers on hallowe'en.
I would love to have feedback on my questions, or a good site to answer them, and I have search and read everything I could, but to no avail.