Fishfur
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To my surprise, my giant ramshorns have proven to be outrageous consumers of floating plants, most especially duckweed, salvinia and frogbit.
I put them all in a 5G tank, because they were making a mess of the frogbit in my frog's tank. I had lots of frogbit, it was just getting really beaten up. So I removed them, and the tank they went into had a thin layer of duckweed on it. A week later, it has vanished. I tossed in a fair size handful of young frogbits, since I have more than enough of them anyway.. and tonight only one of those plants remains.
The big female snail.. she's the only one I am sure of in terms of gender, has laid twice since I put them into this tank. They are ignoring big stems of anacharis, but mowing down the floaters. If it weren't that I don't trust them not to eat other stem plants, I'd think of offering these guys as organic duckweed controls for the aquarium.
I put them all in a 5G tank, because they were making a mess of the frogbit in my frog's tank. I had lots of frogbit, it was just getting really beaten up. So I removed them, and the tank they went into had a thin layer of duckweed on it. A week later, it has vanished. I tossed in a fair size handful of young frogbits, since I have more than enough of them anyway.. and tonight only one of those plants remains.
The big female snail.. she's the only one I am sure of in terms of gender, has laid twice since I put them into this tank. They are ignoring big stems of anacharis, but mowing down the floaters. If it weren't that I don't trust them not to eat other stem plants, I'd think of offering these guys as organic duckweed controls for the aquarium.