If you cant beat'm.. give up. my 120 Mn. Native tank rebuild.

[The_Nuge]

when the big tear down n filter cleaning happen ill scrub the filter n change media. If there is a service to do this in my area I may have to try that.. as much as I love keeping fish im not a fan if big cleanings..lol

took a couple new pics ill post shortly..

 

[Owain4]

waiting for those pics lol im going to post a bunch of updated ones here too soon.

 

[The_Nuge]

new pics..

 

[Owain4]

Nice fish! makes me want a catfish and bluegils. The walleye looks absolutely retarded in picture 7 haha.

 

[The_Nuge]

lol.. thanks Mr walleye is a bit special.. in pic five you can see the blue gill has one of the walleyes minnows in his mouth!

 

[Ambervikings91]

lol @ the walleye

 

[pdandy]

Same thing happened to me. Had snails in my 75. Got loaches for said snails. Snails in tank all but disappeared. I opened up the fx5 and to my disbelief it was full of snails! So I cleaned it out and forgot about it.

About 5 months later I tore down my 75 to set up a new 135. I used the fx5 to fast cycle the 135 since it was already seeded with beneficial bacteria. Low and behold, there were snails in the 135 now! I took the fx5 off once I got the sump going on the 135. Every once in a while I will still see a small snail or two.

 

[The_Nuge]

those snails will survive Armageddon for sure..

 

[Ambervikings91]

those snails will survive Armageddon for sure..

lol, something like that

 

[Thunderbird7480]

Regarding snails. If one is keeping a native tank with sunfish/bream in it already, could a couple of redear sunfish help with snail populations? They are specialized at eating invertebrates like snails and I think

Im not sure what quantities they could eat though. If they could keep up with the exploding snail population.