So i had to figure out a way to keep my pond snail colony going without an additional aquarium.
Throw 'em in the AC110!!
It was a great idea at first.
After a month when the colony had built itself up again, I was doing routine maintenance on the filters.
Whoa! The AC110 I put the snails in was soooo rank! The snails were doing good but oh man did it smell like neglected ass.
Sometimes the snails get too close to the impeller and get crushed up and stuck in the sponges, where the other snails can't get to them, and rot.
Soooo, the lesson learned is that AquaClears are still excellent micro fuges, but run them without sponges!
i'm going to buy a smaller Aqua clear to keep my snail colony in, and instead of sponges, I'm going to use pulled apart plastic pot scrubbers that will allow some food to get trapped, but the snails will be able to get to it, and if any snails meet their maker via impeller, their corpse either get's eaten by the other snails, or it shoots into the main tank where the loaches will go nuts.
Throw 'em in the AC110!!
It was a great idea at first.After a month when the colony had built itself up again, I was doing routine maintenance on the filters.
Whoa! The AC110 I put the snails in was soooo rank! The snails were doing good but oh man did it smell like neglected ass.
Sometimes the snails get too close to the impeller and get crushed up and stuck in the sponges, where the other snails can't get to them, and rot.
Soooo, the lesson learned is that AquaClears are still excellent micro fuges, but run them without sponges!
i'm going to buy a smaller Aqua clear to keep my snail colony in, and instead of sponges, I'm going to use pulled apart plastic pot scrubbers that will allow some food to get trapped, but the snails will be able to get to it, and if any snails meet their maker via impeller, their corpse either get's eaten by the other snails, or it shoots into the main tank where the loaches will go nuts.
